Potential of floating production for delta and coastal cities

Zanon, Bruno; Roeffen, B.; Czapiewska, K. M.; Dinther, R.E. de Graaf-Van; Mooij, Peter R.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.048

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“…11% and 3% of the papers include two or three case studies, 7% and 1% compare two and three countries respectively. Only three papers include a comparative study between the global south and global north focusing on Manila (Philippines) [39], Dar es Salam (Tanzania) [40], and Sebakwe (Zimbabwe) [41]. Figure 2 illustrates an overview of the geographical distribution of the case studies focusing on countries of the global north.…”

Section: Geographical Patternmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The production of algae promotes the re-use of nutrients and fixates carbon. Algae can be grown on water as an alternative option when space is limited in coastal and delta cities [39]. An urban stormwater farm in Melbourne (Australia) harvested stormwater from a 300 ha residential, densely built-up area to irrigate 20 ha of orchard and permaculture gardens and 2 ha allotment gardens [90].…”

Section: Resource Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other provisional ecosystem services include "medicinal resources" (5%) [47] and the "supply of raw materials" in general (1%) [85]. Regulating ecosystem services (n = 66) include particularly the "regulation of local climate and air quality" (27%) [46], "run-off mitigation" (20%) [52], or "maintenance of soil fertility" (18%) [165], while "noise reduction" [166] or "waste-water treatment" [39] plays a minor role as do co-benefits and regulating ecosystem services (2% respectively). Besides providing ecosystem services as co-benefits, the review found that UPA stands out for its multifunctionality, encompassing social (n = 162), economic (n = 72) and ecological categories (n = 72).…”

Section: Ecosystem Services and Multifunctional Benefits By Upamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework

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Urbanization and achieving sustainable agriculture are both major societal challenges. By reducing food miles and connecting people with nature, food cultivation in cities has several major advantages. However, due to further urban development (peri-) urban agriculture (UPA) is under threat. To strengthen UPA, we argue for considering UPA as a nature-based solution (NbS) supporting systemic approaches for societal challenges. However, academic knowledge on UPA's contribution to various societal challenges of urbanization is still fragmented. This study addresses the gap by conducting a systemic literature review, incorporating 166 academic articles focusing on the global north. The results of the review show that UPA contributes to ten key societal challenges of urbanization: climate change, food security, biodiversity and ecosystem services, agricultural intensification, resource efficiency, urban renewal and regeneration, land management, public health, social cohesion, and economic growth. The value of UPA is its multifunctionality in providing social, economic and environmental co-benefits and ecosystem services. When implementing UPA, social, institutional, economic, technical, geographical, and ecological drivers and constraints need to be considered. To upscale UPA successfully, the study develops an integrative assessment framework for evaluating the implementation and impact efficiency of UPA. This framework should be tested based on the example of edible cities.

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Section: Geographical Patternmentioning

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Section: Resource Efficiencymentioning

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Section: Ecosystem Services and Multifunctional Benefits By Upamentioning

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The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework

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“…For example, several of the case studies that traced water stock and flow may be relevant for the assessment of water-related ES supplies [64]. Similarly, the case studies that measured biomass stocks and flows are relevant for assessing food, materials, and bioenergy provisions [60]. We identified UM case studies that are relevant for assessing nutrient cycle regulation (in particular, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous) [51,54,70].…”

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“…While five of the ten scoping review papers suggested taking a multi-level approach to system boundaries, only eight case studies assessed metabolic flows at multiple geographic levels. Three of these eight compared distinct areas [48,60,64]. Zhang, et al [73] used a nested hierarchical approach whereby they assessed the carbon dioxide emissions of the city built-up area and the encompassing supporting area.…”

Section: Multi-levelmentioning

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Pathways to Modelling Ecosystem Services within an Urban Metabolism Framework

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Urbanisation poses new and complex sustainability challenges. Socio-economic activities drive material and energy flows in cities that influence the health of ecosystems inside and outside the urban system. Recent studies suggest that these flows, under the urban metabolism (UM) metaphor, can be extended to encompass the assessment of urban ecosystem services (UES). Advancing UM approaches to assess UES may be a valuable solution to these arising sustainability challenges, which can support urban planning decisions. This paper critically reviews UM literature related to the UES concept and identifies approaches that may allow or improve the assessment of UES within UM frameworks. We selected from the UM literature 42 studies that encompass UES aspects, and analysed them on the following key investigation themes: temporal information, spatial information, system boundary aspects and cross-scale indicators. The analysis showed that UES are rarely acknowledged in UM literature, and that existing UM approaches have limited capacity to capture the complexity of spatio-temporal and multi-scale information underpinning UES, which has hampered the implementation of operational decision support systems so far. We use these results to identify and illustrate pathways towards a UM-UES modelling approach. Our review suggests that cause–effect dynamics should be integrated with the UM framework, based on spatially-specific social, economic and ecological data. System dynamics can inform on the causal relationships underpinning UES in cities and, therefore, can help moving towards a knowledge base tool to support urban planners in addressing urban challenges.

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Future Outlook: Emerging Trends and Key Ingredients for the Transition to Resilient Delta Cities

Dinther

2020

Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies

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Potential of floating production for delta and coastal cities

Cited by 21 publications

References 35 publications

The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework

The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework

Pathways to Modelling Ecosystem Services within an Urban Metabolism Framework

Future Outlook: Emerging Trends and Key Ingredients for the Transition to Resilient Delta Cities

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