Regulations ‘Under the Weather’: Legal Factors of Stability and Change for the Implementation of Natural Stormwater Management in Finland DOI Creative Commons
Fabio Venuti, Aleksi Heinilä, Peter Davids

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Environmental Policy and Governance, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 29, 2025

ABSTRACT The implementation of natural stormwater management (SWM), namely SWM carried out through nature‐based solutions (NBS), is still problematic despite their benefits in climate change adaptation. Private landownership commonly cited as the factor limiting extensive NBS. However, Finnish model demonstrates that, regardless whether needed land private or public, implementing actors face numerous legal challenges efforts to carry using We study and use planning frameworks uncover barriers drivers NBS well interaction with wider governance setting. By doing so, we highlight need for a regulatory approach that will facilitate uptake. first explore how framework regulates SWM. Secondly, policy arrangement (PAA) on stability flood risk combine results analysis findings from series interviews urban planners several municipalities. This turn enables us visualise law interacts broader system limit shape options main factors (namely, keeping status quo) include lack regulations unclear fragmented responsibilities. encouraging cities' acquisition ownership public land, an integrated SWM, Green Area Factor (GAF), pilot projects working groups.

Language: Английский

Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective DOI Creative Commons
Kejing Zhou, Fanhua Kong, Haiwei Yin

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npj Urban Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(1)

Published: April 22, 2024

Abstract A growing number of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has been advocated for urban flood risk management (FRM). However, whether NbS FRM (NbS-FRM) achieves both social and ecological co-benefits remains largely unknown. We here propose use a conceptual framework with coupled social-ecological perspective to explore identify such “win-win” potential in NbS-FRM. Through scoping-review we find that measures are unevenly distributed around the world, those solely targeting mitigation may have unintended negative consequences society ecosystems. In elaborating this evidence from reviewed studies, NbS-FRM provide co-benefits, remaining gaps including lack resilience thinking, inadequate consideration environmental changes, limited collaborative efforts manage trade-offs. The proposed shows how move forward leverage equitable sustainable improved human well-being ecosystem health.

Language: Английский

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Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities DOI Creative Commons
Rieke Hansen, Marleen Buizer, Arjen Buijs

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European Planning Studies, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 31(12), P. 2401 - 2424

Published: Nov. 11, 2022

Green (and blue) spaces receive attention as important components of cities that can help to mitigate the effects climate change, support biodiversity and improve public health. space planning aims transform towards urban sustainability resilience. In a longitudinal study, representatives from eleven European municipalities had previously been interviewed in 2014 were re-interviewed 2020–2021 on changes greening related practices. The interviewees reported mainly advancements dealing with ecological issues, such new plans, strategies, regulations or funding programmes for adaptation support, well some progress co-governance non-governmental stakeholders. Promising developments include breaking professional silos by creating units better deal complex issues. few cases, high-level local politicians induced profound changes. These stimulated development governance cultures, resulting more co-creation green spaces. However, transformation studies perspective, incremental strategies dominate, even when municipal are aware substantive needed, they often lack means act. For radical system significant extra efforts needed.

Language: Английский

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Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe DOI
Laura Tozer, Harriet Bulkeley, Alexander van der Jagt

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Global Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 74, P. 102521 - 102521

Published: May 1, 2022

Language: Английский

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Paying for green: A scoping review of alternative financing models for nature-based solutions DOI
Chris den Heijer, Tom Coppens

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 337, P. 117754 - 117754

Published: March 20, 2023

Language: Английский

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An integrated process for planning, delivery, and stewardship of urban nature-based solutions: The Connecting Nature Framework DOI Creative Commons
Marcus Collier, Niki Frantzeskaki, Stuart Connop

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Nature-Based Solutions, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 3, P. 100060 - 100060

Published: March 30, 2023

Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities has grown scale and magnitude recent times but is still considered to be the main challenge for transitioning our their communities more climate resilient liveable: environmentally, economically, socially.Furthermore, taking next level, scaling them out all urban contexts achieve a greater impact, proving slow often conflicts with other initiatives such as energy generation, mobility transport initiatives, infilling combat sprawl.So, task neither easy nor straightforward; there are many barriers this novel transition, especially when it comes collaborative approaches implementing diverse within city authorities themselves.This paper reports on new process that systematically co-produced captured framework planning emerged during Connecting Nature project.The Framework three-stage, iterative involves seven key activity areas mainstreaming solutions: technical solutions, governance, financing business models, enterprises, co-production, reflexive monitoring, impact assessment.The tested applied designed address overcome implementation of via co-created, iterative, reflective approach.The guided by proposed already yielded promising results some project, though further usage its adoption needed explore potential different Global South.The concludes suggestions how may realised.

Language: Английский

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Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities DOI Creative Commons
Katharina Hölscher, Niki Frantzeskaki,

Donnchadh Kindlon

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Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 152, P. 103652 - 103652

Published: Dec. 16, 2023

This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the analyses policy officers manifest capacities for in three European cities – Genk (Belgium), Glasgow (United Kingdom) Poznań (Poland) while experimenting with develop scale Co-production include conditions activities (1) create space co-production, (2) safeguard inclusive legitimate (3) link processes results contexts. The demonstrate have mobilised created resources, skills, institutional support partnerships implement diverse co-produce While mark starting changes urban governance, engaging embedding causes tensions between dynamic diffuse nature of existing formal settings processes. Lessons strengthening embed solutions planning, delivery stewardship are: tailor-made approach meaningfully engage actors place-based settings, open-ended long-term benefits, new relations roles sustain co-production.

Language: Английский

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Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions DOI Creative Commons

Johnn Andersson,

Thomas Taro Lennerfors,

Helena Fornstedt

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 51, P. 100846 - 100846

Published: April 21, 2024

The literature on sustainability transitions departs from the idea that social and environmental problems call for transformative change but employs socio-technical frameworks treat nature as a passive context. In this paper, we argue research should adopt socio-techno-ecological approach accounts better ecological elements. To take steps in direction, review adjacent engages with socio-ecological systems concepts. Based insights literature, discuss emerging topics development of framework. Our contribution paves way further theoretical empirical validation by motivating, contextualizing sketching roadmap towards more comprehensive to research.

Language: Английский

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Just nature-based solutions and the pursuit of climate resilient urban development DOI
Joshua J. Cousins

Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 247, P. 105054 - 105054

Published: March 14, 2024

Language: Английский

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With the process comes the progress: A systematic review to support governance assessment of urban nature-based solutions DOI Creative Commons
Alexander van der Jagt, Arjen Buijs, Cynnamon Dobbs

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Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 87, P. 128067 - 128067

Published: Aug. 23, 2023

The last decade has seen a profound increase in the development of assessment frameworks for ecosystem services, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions (NBS). This improved understanding NBS impact assessment, including processual aspects related to participatory planning governance. We argue that, although representing move right direction, would benefit from broader framing governance, role government-led laws, policies regulations along with community-led collaborative multi-stakeholder initiatives. consideration marginalised communities environmental justice should also be strengthened. To ensure feasible comprehensive approach governance we carried out systematic literature review on topic urban Using thematic analysis, developed framework five themes encompassing nine dimensions, which some are further broken down into sub-dimensions. assess different tool format survey decision-makers other stakeholders, indicators corresponding identified dimensions. Further complementing approaches important ways, were able highlight knowledge gaps around integrating features process community-based or traditional knowledge. Our monitoring is simple use provides cities low-cost evaluating their readiness mainstreaming NBS.

Language: Английский

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Actors mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A case study of Melbourne’s change agents and pathways for urban sustainability transformations DOI Creative Commons
Clare Adams, Niki Frantzeskaki, Magnus Moglia

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Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 155, P. 103723 - 103723

Published: March 16, 2024

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are implemented across multiple cities worldwide and feature as promising in local global agendas. As that can deal with interlinked urban challenges, NBS being taken up by different geographies considered to be mainstreaming. The process, referred mainstreaming, how this achieved needs better understood, which is identified a research gap. In paper, we examine the roles actors undertake contribute mainstreaming of cities. aim understand actors, especially those within governments, assume process mobilise implement novel innovative strategic for This topic explored case study metropolitan Melbourne region Australia, where forest strategies gaining traction governments addressing resilience concerns. We present (re)shaping, building, and/or transformation institutions attain climate ecologically resilient main contribution paper pathways framework illustrates sustainability norms move through facilitated – champion, advocate, realise transformative discourses actions politics practices. Our key findings framed success factors agencies underpinning transformation, are: commitment longevity, capacity, collaborative mindset, on-ground delivery.

Language: Английский

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