Building urban resilience with nature-based solutions: How can urban planning contribute?

Bush, Judy; Doyon, Andréanne

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.102483

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“…NBSs are considered to contribute to substantially more complex, holistic, and interdisciplinary understandings and applications of economic issues into environmental aspects, in contrast to earlier applications of the term which often focused on economic valuations of "natural capital" [25]. The economic efficiency of the solutions is especially important in the case of the urban environment, posing both benefits and risks for the quality of life.…”

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Can Allotment Gardens (AGs) Be Considered an Example of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Based on the Use of Historical Green Infrastructure?

2021

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The term nature-based solutions (NBSs) is understood as a multidisciplinary umbrella concept that includes aspects such as green/blue infrastructure and urban gardens and forests. However, the important question here is what features of ecosystem-based approaches are essential for them to be considered nature-based? This study aims to answer this question by analysing the potential of allotment gardens (AGs) to be considered as NBSs. To do so, the possibilities and obstacles regarding a Polish case study were analysed based on the following six research questions: (1) How do AGs use blue and green infrastructure? (2) What problem(s) do AGs solve today? (3) What kind of benefits do AGs provide? (4) Do AGs possess implementation and management capabilities? (5) Can AGs be treated as economically efficient? (6) What are the advantages of AGs versus other possible solution(s)? With regards to obstacles, the study has identified: institutional barriers, irregular distribution of benefits, and deficiencies in economic efficiency. Nevertheless, AGs together with other historical urban green/blue infrastructure may be regarded as a kind of unsophisticated NBS, the effectiveness of which is limited. These solutions may be created as independent structures or (historical) green/blue infrastructure may be enlarged, fitted out, linked, and improved to implement NBS projects.

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Can Allotment Gardens (AGs) Be Considered an Example of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Based on the Use of Historical Green Infrastructure?

2021

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“…Trends in urban inflows and outflows can indeed change if measures are effectively taken. Those include: (i) long-term urban planning and design for sustainability, health, and resilience [55][56][57][58]; (ii) technological and non-technological measures for decreasing natural resource extraction, improving urban efficiency, and closing urban flows cycles [47,59,60]; (iii) introduction of nature-based solutions for reducing climate risk and promoting biodiversity and habitat conservation [61][62][63]; (iv) addressing social inclusion while reducing inequalities of all kind [64][65][66][67]; (v) enhancing urban participatory governance, hand in hand with local institutional capacity building, science-policy interface promotion, and finance innovation [68][69][70][71]; and undoubtedly, (vi) climate-environmental education for everyday practices and behavioral change [72,73].…”

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Climate-Environmental Governance in the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area: Assessing Local Institutional Capacities in the Face of Current and Future Urban Metabolic Dynamics

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2021

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This paper focuses on the evaluation of local institutional capacities for advancing climate-environmental governance in the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area (MVMA). It starts with a brief contextualization of the MVMA, followed by an estimation of current and tendential urban inflows and outflows by 2050 with the objective of delineating the challenges and potential implications ahead. Next, an assessment of local climate-environmental institutional capacities is offered. For that, the methodology and main outcomes of the so-called ICI-CLIMA index is presented for 2019. A qualitative discussion continues in order to assert the challenges and opportunities for advancing a coordinated urban agenda for sustainability and resilience. Such discussion has been enriched with documental and other type of information gathered through field research in all of the 76 municipalities that comprise the MVMA. The paper concludes that, in addition to the limited current climate-environmental local capacities, there is a mismatch between them and both the level of climate vulnerability officially identified and the environmental challenges currently facing. Therefore, for coping with a tendential scenario of increasing urban inflows and outflows and their associated climate-environmental implications, MVMA governments will have to improve their capacities while advancing, at all levels of government, the coordination of climate-environmental agendas, and of the later with urban planning and development agendas.

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“…The existing methods for assessing, valuing and monitoring these co-benefits are often underdeveloped or challenging to apply (Trémolet S. et al, 2019 [6] ). There is additionally a wide variation in the hydrological and other services delivered by different ecosystem types (WWAP, 2018 [31] ), and specific costs and benefits of different solutions are dependent on local circumstances (Brown and Mijic, 2019 [40] ). Finally, there can be trade-offs between different ecosystem services.…”

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“…l NbS may be a "no-regrets" adaptation measure, as they can yield benefits even in the absence of climate change (Hallegatte, 2009 [39] ), making them an effective way to cope with climate variability and change. For example, urban parks can reduce the urban heat island effect and absorb floodwater, while providing recreational value, improving air quality, and making a space more economically attractive (Brown and Mijic, 2019 [40] ).…”

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“…protection and other vital services on which human lives depend, such as regulating water supply and generating hydropower in the case of dams, they equally have limitations. First, grey infrastructure can be costly to build and to maintain (Wingfield et al, 2019 [40] ), and when it fails, it has shown to cause signficant ripple effects. Second, grey infrastructure is long lasting and inflexible, and in the past has been designed assuming static hydro-climatic conditions.…”

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This paper is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and the arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of OECD member countries. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. For Israel, change is measured between 1997-99 and 2009-11. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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Building urban resilience with nature-based solutions: How can urban planning contribute?

Cited by 281 publications

References 63 publications

Can Allotment Gardens (AGs) Be Considered an Example of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Based on the Use of Historical Green Infrastructure?

Can Allotment Gardens (AGs) Be Considered an Example of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Based on the Use of Historical Green Infrastructure?

Climate-Environmental Governance in the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area: Assessing Local Institutional Capacities in the Face of Current and Future Urban Metabolic Dynamics

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