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Re-Thinking People and Nature Interactions in Urban Nature-Based Solutions
Laurence Jones 
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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
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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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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-...
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