Learning and amplifying urban climate governance through cutting-edge projects

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 14

Опубликована: Фев. 22, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Understanding the effects of spatial scaling on the relationship between urban structure and biodiversity

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 138, С. 104441 - 104441

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Toward resilient urban environments: transition pathways in nature-based solutions

Futures, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 103595 - 103595

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Green Infrastructure: A Systematic Review of Success Factors and Implementation Challenges

Land, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14(4), С. 818 - 818

Опубликована: Апрель 9, 2025

Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) have gained prominence in urban planning as integrative strategies that utilize natural processes to address complex environmental and societal challenges while advancing green infrastructure development. Despite growing academic interest, the practical integration of NBSs into remains hindered by fragmented methodologies limited understanding context-specific implementation dynamics. This study contributes addressing these gaps through a systematic review bibliometric analysis 90 peer-reviewed articles published between 2014 2024. It examines range employed infrastructure, factors shaping their successful implementation, barriers, financial, technical, social, political, constrain adoption. The also explores roles key stakeholders, including local governments, private actors, communities, planning, execution, maintenance NBS projects. findings reveal both conceptual convergence contextual variation how are deployed evaluated, highlighting critical enablers, such spatial justice, governance integration, financial viability, technical capacity. By clarifying conditions under which function effectively, this offers insights for researchers policymakers seeking embed approaches within sustainable development frameworks.

Язык: Английский

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Nature-based solutions for watershed management: An investigation on water-related ecosystem services delivery at multiple spatial scales

Ecosystem Services, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 73, С. 101718 - 101718

Опубликована: Апрель 10, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The why, how, and what of indicator-based monitoring of nature-based solutions: Perspectives from EU and LAC city practitioners

AMBIO, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 22, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Strategies for mainstreaming nature-based solutions in urban governance capacities in ten European cities

npj Urban Sustainability, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 3(1)

Опубликована: Ноя. 8, 2023

Abstract This paper explores the institutional mainstreaming of nature-based solutions (NBS) to advance a process-based understanding about how strategically develop governance capacities needed for systemic, localised and inclusive NBS. To this end, it reports policy officers in ten European cities have started mainstream NBS by interacting with changing incumbent arrangements when experimenting novel processes mechanisms plan, deliver steward Based on these activities officers, analysis identifies three strategies, associated stepping stones changes conditions, capacities: institutionalising (a) systems’ approach link policies, regulations, departments across goals sectors, (b) collaborations interventions, (c) reflexivity learning interact (institutional, ecological, social, etc.) contexts create impacts. The strategies illustrate entrepreneurship contexts, starting from as type systemic innovation can promote broader shifts urban arrangements.

Язык: Английский

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Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships

Futures, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 161, С. 103403 - 103403

Опубликована: Июнь 1, 2024

Recent discussions within urban planning support nature as a potent ally to facing climate change in cities. Among all, nature-based solutions (NbS) and their upscaling have been proposed address challenges the environment. Different visions on how NbS uscapling is advanced context, by whom, for what purpose generated conflicting imaginaries which city of future could look like. Yet, this plurality has confusion controversies 'right way' perform upscaling. Stemming from sustainability transition governance research, paper proposes working definition based three analytical dimensions: discourses, practices, relations. The combination dimensions suggests new understanding complex phenomenon that implies effort different actors frame winning picture be normalised an implementable solution pursuit selected imaginary. argues alternative perspective human–nature relationship puts at centre considers tradition locality greener more just

Язык: Английский

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Nature based solutions in cities of the Global South – the ‘where, who and how’ of implementation

Environmental Research Ecology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 3(2), С. 025005 - 025005

Опубликована: Июнь 1, 2024

Abstract Nature-based solutions have gained popularity as an approach to reduce the impacts of climate and environmental change, providing multi-fold multi-sectoral benefits especially in cities. Yet there has been growing concern about their utility for cities Global South, a fuelled by paucity studies, including scientific peer reviewed gray literature. In this paper, we contribute knowledge gap, based on analysis 120 case studies NBS South cities, documented two databases (Urban Natural Atlas Oppla). These cases fall largely under categories blue green infrastructure, with few also focusing grey infrastructure (in buildings or campuses). While most are Asia, several Africa Central/South America. Two-third aligned towards either national, lower-level (regional local) policies indicating importance policy mechanisms driving implementation. Institutional arrangements usually non-government, government collaborative arrangements, goal resilience, biodiversity support ecosystem restoration—along social goals creating public spaces. However, when private players take mandate NBS, they focus primarily campuses), meant employee benefits, not public. where engagement is stated priority, find tokenistic approaches deployed, seeking through information dissemination consultation predominate. Despite participation engagement, only focused empowerment co-creation local communities. We suggest that greater need documentation regarding modes roles levels actors involved, enrich our understanding impact values justice equity global South.

Язык: Английский

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Realising transformative agendas in cities through mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions

Urban forestry & urban greening, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 91, С. 128160 - 128160

Опубликована: Ноя. 29, 2023

Cities are at the forefront of sustainability agendas, especially as places to implement solutions needed address key challenges. City-level governments have responded in diverse ways these challenges, including adopting and implementing a mix policies improve resilience liveability that issues heat mitigation, water security, climate risks. To support such strategies, we argue mainstreaming, process embedding novel thinking into governance practice, urgently needs be comprehensively understood leveraged. Therefore, drawing on empirical theoretical research focusing mainstreaming nature-based urban planning, examine systematically conceptualise planning process. Drawing recent case study forestry across metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, show how identified drivers mechanisms can successfully applied. The resulting framework emphasises need for dynamic understanding processes what ensures they enabled accelerated cities. Further, this may applied well other innovations.

Язык: Английский

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