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Re-Thinking People and Nature Interactions in Urban Nature-Based Solutions
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Sally Anderson ,
Jeppe Læssøe ,
Ellen Banzhaf ,
Anne Jensen ,
Annie Tubadji ,
Michael Hutchins,
Jun Yang,
Tim Taylor ,
Benedict W. Wheeler ,
David Fletcher ,
Thora Tenbrink ,
Liz Wilcox-Jones,
Signe Iversen,
Åsa Sang,
Tao Lin ,
Yaoyang Xu,
Lingwen Lu,
Gregor Levin ,
Marianne Zandersen
Sustainability, Volume: 17, Issue: 7, Start page: 3043
Swansea University Author:
Annie Tubadji
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/su17073043
Abstract
People-environment interactions within nature-based solutions (NBS) are not always understood. This has implications for communicating the benefits of NBS and for how we plan cities. We present a framework that highlights a duality in NBS. The NBS as an asset includes both natural capital and human-...
| Published in: | Sustainability |
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| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
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MDPI AG
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69260 |
| Abstract: |
People-environment interactions within nature-based solutions (NBS) are not always understood. This has implications for communicating the benefits of NBS and for how we plan cities. We present a framework that highlights a duality in NBS. The NBS as an asset includes both natural capital and human-centred capital, including organisational structures. NBS also exist as a system within which people are able to interact. Temporal and spatial scales moderate the benefits that NBS provide, which in turn are dependent on the scale at which social processes operate. Co-production and equity are central to the interactions among people and institutions in the design, use and management of NBS, and this requires clear communication. Drawing on ideas from culture-based development (CBD), we suggest an approach to communicate the benefits of NBS in a neutral but effective way. We propose guidelines for planning NBS that allow the optimisation of NBS locations and designs for particular outcomes. |
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| Keywords: |
cities; green space; green infrastructure (GI); co-production; ecosystem services; framework |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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The authors of this work received funding from the following sources: The REGREEN Nature-based Solutions project (https://www.regreen-project.eu/) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 821016 and the National Key R&D Program Intergovernmental Cooperation in International Science and Technology Innovation from Ministry of Science and Technology of China under grant agreement No 2021YFE93100. Authors also acknowledge funding from: the UK RECLAIM Network Plus project (EP/W033984/1), funded by the UKRI (EPSRC, NERC, AHRC), NERC funded Greencities (NE/X002772/1) and Defrag (NE/W002892/1), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (42271299). |
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7 |
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3043 |