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Kirk B. Enu

kirk.enu@epfl.ch

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

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

Expertise

Landscape planning, design and architecture; hydro-meteorological hazard resilience (flood, heat and drought); water-related ecosystems; nature-positive infrastructure; climate adaptation; urban ecology; environmental governance; spatial modelling
Socio-ecological systems researcher working at the intersection of landscape planning, design and architecture to advance urban resilience to hydrometeorological hazards and liveability through nature-based interventions.

Education

Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning

| Dissertation focused on making rapidly urbanising cities resilient against hydro-meteorological hazards using nature-based approaches.

2021 – 2025 Technical University of Munich

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

Overcoming barriers to micro-scale greening in rapidly urbanizing Sub-Saharan African cities: empirical insights from Ghana

Kirk B. Enu
Published in npj Urban Sustainability in 2026

Research

Current Research Fields

CITISCALE: The project focuses on micro-scale interventions and the conditions under which they can collectively contribute to systemic and just urban resilience by integrating governance analysis, spatial modelling of cumulative impacts and behavioural responses.

Urban Tree Pits as Nature-Based Infrastructure for Improving Urban Soil Metabolism and Landscape Ecology

Reassembling Waterscapes: Cultural and Ecological Potentials of Urban Stream Daylighting

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Green spaces - Concepts and planning approaches

AR-532

Urban green offers a variety of services and thus plays an important role in the transformation of our cities. The course provides an overview of various innovative approaches to the planning and design of multifunctional green spaces, focussing on how to build green and blue infrastructures.

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.