Volunteered information on nature-based solutions — Dredging for data on deculverting

Wild, Tom; Dempsey, Nicola; Broadhead, Adam T.

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2018.08.019

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“…The types included market-driven, stakeholder-driven, and citizen-driven. These new governance arrangements (i.e., adaptive governance, hybrid governance, and polycentric governance) have also been proposed as a locally unique approach in implementing the NBS practice, evidently provided from examples on climate change adaptation [82,83], urban biodiversity [84], urban water management [85][86][87], communal urban gardens [24] in EU region, and urban forestry [88] mostly in Melbourne Australia. However, hybrid governance with various choices faced risks of either improvements and deterioration of distributional, recognition, or procedural justice.…”

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Mapping the Research Landscape of Nature-Based Solutions in Urbanism

Cheshmehzangi

Chan

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are an innovative concept that mimics the processes of natural ecosystems, popularized principally in the European Union. With a substantial body of literature amassed since the term’s inception in 2015, there is a need to systematically review existing literature to identify overarching gaps and trends, according to disciplinary focus, geographic scope, and key themes, and direct future research inquiry and policy recommendations. This review consists of bibliometric analysis and thematic analysis for NBS studies in urbanism. NBS studies were found to relate strongly with other concepts of ‘Ecosystem Services’, ‘Green Infrastructure’, ‘Climate Change’, and ‘Risk management and Resilience’, which align with four major thematic goals set by the European Commission. Within NBS scholarship, various sub-themes have emerged, namely, ‘Greening’, ‘Urban Development’, ‘Water’, ‘Wellbeing’, and ‘Governance’. Furthermore, we illustrate that the amount and thematic focus of NBS research have been unevenly distributed worldwide. Analysis of emerging trends shows a recent increase in topics, such as adaptive governance of NBS, and the incorporation of social justice in sustainability transitions. Based on an assessment of extant NBS literature, we offer some recommendations for the future direction of the research fields.

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Mapping the Research Landscape of Nature-Based Solutions in Urbanism

Cheshmehzangi

Chan

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…Technology: Numerous studies reported that exclusion can unintentionally occur by the use of technology in citizen science if certain groups (e.g., the aged, the non‐technologically savvy, the poor) cannot use it, do not use it, or cannot afford it, such as if smartphones, certain social media, or access to the internet are a requirement (Baudoin, Henly‐Shepard, Fernando, Sitati, & Zommers, 2016; Roy et al, 2012; Sula, 2016). As noted by Wild, Dempsey, and Broadhead (2019), there is a risk that “the only voices to be heard will be those that can afford the skills, time, technology and capacity to make their voices heard.” Jalbert and Kinchy (2016) found when comparing automatic sensors to volunteers for water quality monitoring in the United States, that “the increased use of automated devices tends to reinforce hierarchies of expertise and constrains the agendas of non‐professionals who participate in monitoring projects.”…”

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The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities

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Citizen science is proliferating in the water sciences with increasing public involvement in monitoring water resources, climate variables, water quality, and in mapping and modeling exercises. In addition to the well-reported scientific benefits of such projects, in particular solving data scarcity issues, it is common to extol the benefits for participants, for example, increased knowledge and empowerment. We reviewed 549 publications concerning citizen science applications in the water sciences to examine personal benefits and motivations, and wider community benefits. The potential benefits of involvement were often simply listed without explanation or investigation. Studies that investigated whether or not participants and communities actually benefitted from involvement, or experienced negative impacts, were uncommon, especially in the Global South. Assuming certain benefits will be experienced can be fallacious as in some cases the intended benefits were either not achieved or in fact had negative impacts. Identified benefits are described and we reveal that more consideration should be given to how these benefits interrelate and how they build community capitals to foster their realization in citizen science water projects. Additionally, we describe identified negative impacts showing they were seldom considered though they may not be uncommon and should be borne in mind when implementing citizen science. Given the time and effort commitment made by citizen scientists for the benefit of research, there is a need for further study of participants and communities involved in citizen science applications to water, particularly in low-income regions, to ensure both researchers and communities are benefitting.

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“…After an exhaustive literature review, we found only one rigorous case study on the land value produced ex post after the deculverting of Seul's Cheonggyecheon [17] and none that attempts to anticipate the valorization ex ante, as we have aimed to do here. Second, to date, there are few large-scale BGI projects implemented in Latin America, and there are no constructed deculverting projects in this region [15]. Thus, examining thoroughly what it would entail to deculvert a buried stream in Buenos Aires through multiple analytical lenses offers new insights about steering the BAU model of solely grey infrastructure approaches towards a more NbS through BGI in the region.…”

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“…Inherent in the idea of SUDS lies the concept of the "sustainable drainage triangle", initially established by D'Arcy [13] and currently widely disseminated as the virtuous conjunction of three dimensions: (1) Quantity, (2) quality and (3) amenity/biodiversity. The concept of SUDS is understood to be included in the umbrella category BGI, as well as the practice of deculverting or daylighting piped and buried watercourses [14,15], which is an emblematic example of a procedure that can produce synergies between environmental, public-space and socio-economic goals, as has been shown in cases, such as Seoul's Cheonggyecheon [16,17], Yonkers' Saw Mill river [18] and Singapore's Bishang-Ang [19], among several others.…”

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Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) in Dense Urban Watersheds. The Case of the Medrano Stream Basin (MSB) in Buenos Aires

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Conventional urban drainage approaches have historically focused on the volume of stormwater to be displaced with the aim of moving it as fast and as far as possible from the city. They have also been negligent regarding water quality and the inherent value of watercourses to distinct forms of life in cities, from maintaining biodiversity to providing recreational space for residents. Contemporary responses to these issues point to a paradigm change: They seek to replicate the natural mechanisms of absorption and retention, with the aim of addressing pluvial drainage needs closer to the site of origin. This article aims to explore the extent to which such an approach could be accommodated in one dense and highly impervious setting in the Global South. Specifically, it compares urban morphology, land value, hydraulic performance, and politico-institutional conditions of grey and Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) scenarios in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The findings suggest that even in very dense and impervious urban basins it is possible to implement BGI with a significant effect in achieving urban-sustainability goals. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that it is possible to deculvert watercourses in line with Compact City principles through the development of hybrid BGI/grey-infrastructure systems.

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Volunteered information on nature-based solutions — Dredging for data on deculverting

Cited by 23 publications

References 29 publications

Mapping the Research Landscape of Nature-Based Solutions in Urbanism

Mapping the Research Landscape of Nature-Based Solutions in Urbanism

The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities

Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) in Dense Urban Watersheds. The Case of the Medrano Stream Basin (MSB) in Buenos Aires

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