Moving forward in implementing green infrastructures: Stakeholder perceptions of opportunities and obstacles in a major North American metropolitan area

Bissonnette, Jean‐François; Dupras, Jérôme; Messier, Christian; Lechowicz, Martin J.; Dagenais, Danielle; Paquette, Alain; Jaeger, Jochen A.G.; Gonzalez, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.03.014

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“…Public Participation (Baptiste et al, 2015;Bissonnette et al, 2018;Cohen-Shacham et al, 2019;Dhakal and Chevalier, 2017;Santoro et al, 2019;Wamsler et al, 2020;Zuniga-Teran et al, 2020) Adaptive governance structure. Targeted and strategic citizen involvement in selection and planning process, funding, increasing public awareness.…”

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Systems-thinking for environmental policy coherence: Stakeholder knowledge, fuzzy logic, and causal reasoning

Castro¹

2022

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Nature-based solutions (NBSs) are often managed according to hydro-environmental characteristics that disregard the complex interactions between decision-makers, society, and the environment. Numerous barriers to NBS adoption have been identified as stemming from human behavior (e.g., community buy-in, political will, culture), yet we lack an understanding of how such factors interrelate to inform policy design. The identification of synergies and trade-offs among diverse management strategies is necessary to generate optimal results from limited institutional resources. System dynamics modeling (SDM) has been used within the environmental community to aid decision-making by bringing together diverse stakeholders and defining their shared understanding of complex behavior. While these approaches have enhanced collaboration efforts and have increased awareness of complexity, SDM models often result in numerous feedback loops that are difficult to disentangle without further, data-intensive modeling. When investigating the complexities of human decision-making, we often lack robust empirical datasets for SDM quantification. An alternative to SDM is fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM), which combines the strengths of stakeholder knowledge with network theory to produce semi-quantitative scenarios of system change. However, sole reliance upon computer-simulated outputs may obscure our understanding of the underlying system behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the applicability and strength of combining SDM and FCM to both identify areas of policy coherence from stakeholder engagement and also to explain the emergence of synergies and trade-offs according to causal loop logic. This framework is demonstrated through a case study of NBS policy-making and socio-institutional feedbacks in Houston, Texas, USA.

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Systems-thinking for environmental policy coherence: Stakeholder knowledge, fuzzy logic, and causal reasoning

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2022

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“…Higher expectations in incorporating participation into planning (using the case of green infrastructure) were also voiced by Bissonnette et al (2018), who determined that participation is often narrowed down to paid professionals and focuses less on resident participation. Like here, they established that the sectors do not connect enough with one another (silo effect) and that they only focus on one sector instead of integral planning.…”

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“…Integrating the public into planning procedures is still largely lacking (Sagaris 2014;Nared et al 2015;Hong 2018;Bissonnette et al 2018). As observed in the Planning Democracy report (2012), despite the recognized advantages of participation and its inclusion in the legislation, people still feel it is not satisfactorily implemented in practice.…”

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Participatory Transport Planning: The Experience of Eight European Metropolitan Regions

Nared

2019

Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

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and Barcelona. These metropolitan regions answered the questionnaire on strengths, weaknesses and needs and an in-depth questionnaire on participatory transport planning. The results were presented at a workshop, where representatives from these eight metropolitan regions shared their experience in two workshop sessions, one dealing with the key stakeholders in participatory transport planning and the other dealing with ways to get them involved. The findings show that stakeholder involvement differs between the local and regional levels. Participants' engagement is greater at the local level, where measures are more concrete and less abstract. The participatory planning process takes longer than the traditional planning processes, but it can ease the implementation of the project/measure to the extent that it justifies the additional resources and time. It is of crucial importance to include all the relevant stakeholders, to provide an experienced facilitator and, above all, to include the results in the final plans and policies. Although there are differences in the participatory planning culture between the countries and regions involved, the use of participatory methods in transport planning is becoming increasingly important.

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“…For example, a survey conducted in southern Ontario found that 84% of respondents considered the presence of trees in their immediate environment to be "very" important (Environics Research Group 2001, cited in Kenney 2003. It is therefore no surprise that groups of citizens are mobilizing to protect green spaces in urban areas (e.g., see Bissonnette et al 2018).…”

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How Perseverance and Passion Brought Me to Canadian forestry!

2021

The Forestry Chronicle

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At a time when the future of our planet remains fraught with uncertainty, interest in the state and role of forests, especially in urban settings, is growing rapidly. Our project, based on a Canada-wide survey, identifies the research needs of 192 municipalities of 5000 inhabitants or more, and verifies whether the size of the municipality, the region or the canopy have an impact on these needs. The numerous needs identified by municipalities show that there is a strong demand for research in this area. In particular, municipalities want to know: a) which tree species are better adapted to urban settings; b) the effects of trees on rainwater runoff and on human health; and c) that more studies be conducted on topics such as trees and infrastructure, on hazardous trees, on invasive plant species, and on various tree pests. Our analysis reveals that small municipalities are less interested in certain needs than larger municipalities, and that municipalities in the Maritimes region show more interest in certain topics than those in other Canadian regions. Results also reveal that urban forest canopy size has no influence on the identified needs. This study allows researchers to better define their projects, and it highlights the importance of improving knowledge exchange with and among key stakeholders in cities actively pursuing and interested in urban forestry activities.

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Moving forward in implementing green infrastructures: Stakeholder perceptions of opportunities and obstacles in a major North American metropolitan area

Cited by 49 publications

References 45 publications

Systems-thinking for environmental policy coherence: Stakeholder knowledge, fuzzy logic, and causal reasoning

Systems-thinking for environmental policy coherence: Stakeholder knowledge, fuzzy logic, and causal reasoning

Participatory Transport Planning: The Experience of Eight European Metropolitan Regions

How Perseverance and Passion Brought Me to Canadian forestry!

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