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Kirk B. Enu

kirk.enu@epfl.ch

EPFL ENAC IA LAND
BP 4235 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

EPFL ENAC IA LAND
BP 4235 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Nature-based Solutions (NbS); Green Infrastructure; Urban Resilience; Ecosystem-based Adaptation; Flood Risk Management; Wetlands and River Restoration; Water-related Ecosystems; Participatory and Strategic Landscape Planning and Design; Spatial and Ecosystem Services Modeling; Climate and Environmental Governance

Selected publications

A scenario-based analysis of wetlands as nature-based solutions for flood risk mitigation using the TELEMAC-2D model

Kirk B. Enu, Fabian Merk, Hao Su, Manuel Rauch, Aude Zingraff-Hamed, Karl Broich, Kristian Förster, Stephan Pauleit, Markus Disse
Published in Nature-Based Solutions in 2025

Stakeholder priorities and navigating barriers in urban river restoration: Comparative insights from Germany and Ghana

Kirk B. Enu, Aude Zingraff-Hamed, Gerd Lupp, Susanne Raum, Eddy Moors, Stephan Pauleit
Published in Environmental and Sustainability Indicators in 2025

Moving NbS from Concept to Action in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategic Pathways for Scaling Implementation

Kirk B. Enu, Stephan Pauleit
Published in Built Environment in 2025

Teaching & PhD

Courses

The city-tree

PENS-235

This ENAC week is an invitation to question how cities are reinventing their relationship with living and natural entities, focusing in particular on the question of trees.

Urban voids: mind the gap!

PENS-322

This course focuses on transforming urban voids, like vacant lots or abandoned buildings, into valuable spaces addressing challenges such as climate change and social cohesion. It equips engineers and architects with interdisciplinary skills to creatively repurpose these areas for multiple benefits.

Urban voids: mind the gap!

This course focuses on transforming urban voids, like vacant lots or abandoned buildings, into valuable spaces addressing challenges such as climate change and social cohesion. It equips engineers and architects with interdisciplinary skills to creatively repurpose these areas for multiple benefits.