Leveraging Nature‐based Solutions for transformation: Reconnecting people and nature

Welden, E. A.; Chausson, Alexandre; Melanidis, Marina Stavroula

doi:10.1002/pan3.10212

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“…Similarly, narrowly focusing on a system's ecological dimensions may sideline valuable social dimensions of adaptation (Diaz et al, 2021). Thus, our results clearly show how NbS are not synonymous with 'ecosystem services', but rather represent coordinated projects involving people and nature working towards specific societal challenges (Lavorel et al, 2019;Bruley et al, 2021;Welden, Chausson. et al, 2021).…”

Section: Contributions To Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 81%

“…We use a social-ecological systems framework centered on peopleat-risk and explore how people's vulnerability to climate-related hazards is affected by nature-based interventions across a wide range of peer-reviewed case studies. By using this approach, the study also addresses the general theoretical gap identified by Welden, Chausson et al (2021) in terms of how NbS effectiveness is mediated by in-situ social and ecological factors, such as contextual institutions and social-ecological interactions (cf. Osaka et al, 2021;Coloff et al, 2021).…”

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Contributions of Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce Peoples’ Vulnerabilities to Climate Change across the Rural Global South

Woroniecki¹,

Spiegelenberg²,

Chausson³

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Nature-based solutions (NbS) —i.e. working with and enhancing nature to address societal challenges— feature with increasing prominence in responses to climate change, including in the adaptation plans of the most vulnerable nations. Although evidence for the effectiveness of NbS for adaptation is growing, there is less evidence on whether and how NbS reduce vulnerability to climate change in the Global South, despite this region being home to most of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people. To address this, we analysed the vulnerability-reduction outcomes of 85 nature-based interventions in rural areas across the Global South, and factors mediating their effectiveness, based on a systematic map of peer-reviewed studies encompassing a wide diversity of ecosystems, climate impacts, intervention types and institutions. We applied an analytical framework based on social-ecological systems and climate change vulnerability, coding studies with respect to six pathways of vulnerability reduction: social and ecological exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. We find widespread effectiveness of NbS in the dataset with 95% providing positive outcomes for climate change adaptation. Overall, nature-based interventions reduced vulnerability primarily by lowering ecosystem sensitivity to climate impacts (73% of interventions), followed by reducing social sensitivity (43%), reducing ecological exposure (37%), and/or increasing social adaptive capacity (34%), ecological adaptive capacity (18%) and reducing social exposure (12%). With an analysis of mediating factors, we show that vulnerability-reduction effectiveness was affected as much by social and political factors as by technical considerations. Indeed configurations of existing and introduced formal and informal institutions appear central to the efficacy and distributive effects of the studied interventions. We conclude that attention to the distinct pathways through which vulnerability is reduced can help maximise the benefits of NbS and that to be successful, careful consideration is required on their applicability to particular circumstances as well as their social dimensions.

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Section: Contributions To Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 81%

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confidence: 99%

Contributions of Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce Peoples’ Vulnerabilities to Climate Change across the Rural Global South

Woroniecki¹,

Spiegelenberg²,

Chausson³

et al. 2021

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“…An effective NbS should be a place-based partnership between people and nature (Seddon et al, 2021). Welden et al (2021) argue that if the discourse on NbS is constrained to the lexicon of ecosystem services, that is, what nature can do for people, then the potential of resulting schemes will be inherently limited. Instead, they present a core framework for NbS which highlights the intertwined relationship between people and nature and brings together previously siloed disciplines.…”

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“…Their contribution to this Special Feature offers a perspective on how holistic, interconnected and inclusive core framing is urgently needed to shape global discourses on NbS across research, policy and practice. A vital consideration in this perspective is how, if properly framed, NbS can create space for a transformation of Western worldviews to one in which humans and non‐human nature are interconnected and mutually dependent (Welden et al., 2021).…”

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Nature‐based Solutions to tackle climate change and restore biodiversity

Folkard-Tapp

Banks‐Leite

Cavan

2021

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…There is no better place to explore such futures than in planning 'the urban', where so many of our prospects for sustainability are at stake. And yet, this perspective does not want to orient around mainstream conversations about agro-ecological urbanism, ecosystem services or nature-based solutions (Welden et al, 2021). Their merits are explored elsewhere, including in global agendas.…”

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Planning Just Futures

2021

Planning Theory & Practice

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Indigenous people make up 370-500 million of the world's population, yet still do not have the platform to articulate their formidable knowledge in shaping the future of the city (United Nations, 2021). The prevailing literature is the so-called expert outsider looking in at what is best for Indigenous peoples and is not sufficient for including Indigenous peoples in shaping Urban Futures. However, Indigenous planning scholars have grappled with community and temporality, for example, seven generation planning, walking backwards into the future, speculating futures, viscerality, and foreclosed futures of Native erasure (

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Leveraging Nature‐based Solutions for transformation: Reconnecting people and nature

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Cited by 76 publications

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Contributions of Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce Peoples’ Vulnerabilities to Climate Change across the Rural Global South

Contributions of Nature-Based Solutions to Reduce Peoples’ Vulnerabilities to Climate Change across the Rural Global South

Nature‐based Solutions to tackle climate change and restore biodiversity

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