What’s behind the barriers? Uncovering structural conditions working against urban nature-based solutions DOI Creative Commons

Hade Dorst,

Alexander van der Jagt, Helen Toxopeus

et al.

Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 220, P. 104335 - 104335

Published: Dec. 18, 2021

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are a promising and innovative approach to address multiple sustainability challenges faced by cities. Yet, NBS not integrated into mainstream urban development practices. Based on qualitative comparative case study of Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, this shows how barriers mainstreaming shaped structural conditions in infrastructure regimes, which offers an improved, context-sensitive understanding why such persist. We identify underlying shaping seven key NBS: limited collaborative governance, knowledge, data awareness challenges, low private sector engagement, competition over space, insufficient policy development, implementation enforcement, public resources, challenging citizen engagement. This also advances regimes as complex, heterogeneous systems, made up different functional domains that define space available for innovations. Importantly, our comparison reveals similar planning processes caused across countries. For example, perceived causes engagement environmental lack resources support participation NIMBY-ism Netherlands. Our findings stress importance moving beyond 'silver bullet'-type approaches addressing barriers, towards systemic but responses, tailored specific regimes. systematic their can help both scholars practitioners pathways innovation.

Language: Английский

Building urban resilience with nature-based solutions: How can urban planning contribute? DOI Creative Commons
Judy Bush, Andréanne Doyon

Cities, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 95, P. 102483 - 102483

Published: Oct. 24, 2019

Cities face increasing environmental, social and economic challenges that together threaten the resilience of urban areas residents who live work there. These include chronic stresses acute shocks, amplified by climate change impacts. Nature-based solutions have emerged as a concept for integrating ecosystem-based approaches to address range societal challenges. directly contribute increased resilience. However, implementing nature-based is inherently complex, given ecosystem services, their multi-functionality trade-offs between functions, across temporal spatial scales. Urban planning can play substantial role support implementation manage conflicts, well how equity dimensions are considered. This paper presents framework guides application solutions' implementation, addressing key temporal, spatial, functional aspects. The highlights questions, supporting information required these underpin inclusion We find while substantially, there continuing gaps in anthropocentric processes give voice non-human nature.

Language: Английский

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335
Nexus between nature-based solutions, ecosystem services and urban challenges DOI Creative Commons
Javier Babí Almenar, Thomas Elliot, Benedetto Rugani

et al.

Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 100, P. 104898 - 104898

Published: July 17, 2020

Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly promoted to support sustainable and resilient urban planning. However, design planning NBS targeted at the needs of local context require knowledge about causal relationships between NBS, ecosystem services (ES) challenges (UC) This paper aims contributing this knowledge, by systematically identifying nexuses (i.e. qualitative links) UC, ES describing plausible relationships. A conceptual UC-ES-NBS criteria framework was built, used guide a two-step systematic literature review on current UC supply NBS. followed non-systematic review, which complemented previous one unveiling gaps biophysical social processes attributes specific classes depend. The also identify additional identified 18 58 sub-challenges, illustrated were more studied, according type environmental socio-economic contexts. led development an classification, supported identification UC-ES ES-NBS nexuses, analysed classified into four groups relationship. For as direct relationship, main depend pointed out. Relationships ES, processes, represented in form network diagrams. Our results can be policies aimed mainstreaming basis further understand

Language: Английский

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266
What are Nature-based solutions (NBS)? Setting core ideas for concept clarification DOI
Barbara Sowińska-Świerkosz, Joan Garcı́a

Nature-Based Solutions, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 2, P. 100009 - 100009

Published: Jan. 17, 2022

Language: Английский

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253
Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review DOI Creative Commons
Renato Pereira Monteiro, José Carlos Ferreira, Paula Antunes

et al.

Land, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 9(12), P. 525 - 525

Published: Dec. 16, 2020

Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green blue spaces other ecosystems, designed managed to deliver wide range ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, infrastructure, as planning tool, contributes social economic benefits, leading achievement sustainable, resilient, inclusive competitive urban areas. Despite recent developments, there still no consensus among researchers practitioners regarding concept well its implementation approaches, which makes it often difficult for planners professionals in field develop robust some parts world. To address this issue, an integrative literature review was conducted identify principles should be acknowledged spatial practices promote sustainability resilience. As result review, most common eight were selected—connectivity, multifunctionality, applicability, integration, diversity, multiscale, governance, continuity. These intend simplify development use by different academic organizations provide more defined model sustainable landscape management order help decision makers during conceptualization infrastructure.

Language: Английский

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175
Planning nature-based solutions: Principles, steps, and insights DOI Creative Commons
Christian Albert, Mario Brillinger, Paulina Guerrero

et al.

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 50(8), P. 1446 - 1461

Published: Oct. 14, 2020

Nature-based solutions (NBS) find increasing attention as actions to address societal challenges through harnessing ecological processes, yet knowledge gaps exist regarding approaches landscape planning with NBS. This paper aims provide suggestions of how NBS can be conceptualized and applied in practice. We develop a framework for by merging insights from literature case study the Lahn river landscape, Germany. Our relates three key criteria that define NBS, consists six steps planning: Co-define setting, Understand challenges, Create visions scenarios, Assess potential impacts, Develop solution strategies, Realize monitor. Its implementation is guided five principles, namely Place-specificity, Evidence base, Integration, Equity, Transdisciplinarity. Drawing on empirical study, we suggest suitable methods checklist supportive procedures applying Taken together, our facilitate provides further towards mainstreaming.

Language: Английский

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Nature-based solutions in the urban context: terminology, classification and scoring for urban challenges and ecosystem services DOI
Joana A. C. Castellar, Lucía Alexandra Popartan, Josep Pueyo‐Ros

et al.

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 779, P. 146237 - 146237

Published: March 7, 2021

Language: Английский

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141
Integrating green infrastructure, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions for urban sustainability: A comprehensive literature review DOI
Xuening Fang, Jingwei Li, Qun Ma

et al.

Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 98, P. 104843 - 104843

Published: Aug. 1, 2023

Language: Английский

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120
Reviewing financing barriers and strategies for urban nature-based solutions DOI Creative Commons
Helen Toxopeus, Friedemann Polzin

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 289, P. 112371 - 112371

Published: April 10, 2021

Obtaining public and/or private finance for upscaling urban nature-based solutions (NBS) is a key barrier reaching sustainability goals, including climate mitigation and adaptation. We carry out systematic review of the academic literature to understand barriers corresponding strategies financing NBS. First, we report on specific challenges found NBS uptake in four ecological domains: buildings, facades roofs; green space (parks, trees); allotment gardens (including agriculture); green-blue infrastructure. Across domains, identify two overarching finance: (1) coordination between financiers (2) integration benefits into valuation accounting methods. discuss that address these barriers; here, things stand out. One, there large variety does not yet allow an integrated framework Two, aimed at coordinating public/private generally look ways encourage actors (real estate developers, residents) benefit privately from provide co-financing. visualize our findings enabling (public private)

Language: Английский

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The European Union roadmap for implementing nature-based solutions: A review DOI

Clive Davies,

Wendy Y. Chen, Giovanni Sanesi

et al.

Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 121, P. 49 - 67

Published: April 14, 2021

Language: Английский

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107
Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation DOI
Sean Goodwin, Marta Olazabal, Antonio Arjona Castro

et al.

Nature Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(4), P. 458 - 469

Published: Jan. 30, 2023

Language: Английский

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