Susannah Gill
Susannah is a green infrastructure planning officer at The Mersey Forest, one of England’s community forests. She is looking at the potential for green infrastructure to adapt and mitigate for climate change as part of the North West climate change action plan and sits on the North West climate change adaptation group.
Susannah is the lead contributor to the green infrastructure theme, together with John Handley.
She is an honorary research fellow in the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, where she completed her PhD on ‘Climate change and urban green space’ in 2006. This formed part of a wider research project into adaptation strategies for climate change in the urban environment within the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and UK Climate Impacts Programme consortium ‘Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate’.
Her paper ‘Adapting cities for climate change: the role of the green infrastructure’ won CLG’s Planning Research Network Prize paper in 2006. This work has informed the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution’s report on ‘The Urban Environment’ and the ‘Planning and Climate Change’ supplement to Planning Policy Statement 1.
