Natural infrastructure in the nexus

Ozment, Suzanne; DiFrancesco, Kara; Gartner, Todd

doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2015.nex.4.en

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“…Proponents argue that while gray infrastructure typically serves limited purposes, green infrastructure can sometimes deliver multiple benefits, simultaneously, underpinning environmental and social goals. In addition, research suggests that green infrastructure is more flexible and resilient to climate change than its gray counterpart (Cohen-Shacham et al 2016;Ozment et al 2015; WBCSD 2017). ▪ The High Level Panel on Water is an international body convened by the World Bank and United Nations that comprises several heads of state.…”

Section: The Case For Embracing Green Infrastructurementioning

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Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure

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Bescos³

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Section: The Case For Embracing Green Infrastructurementioning

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Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure

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“…Thus, indirect supports of nature (e.g., wastewater resource recovery that could displace land use by bioenergy crops [22,23]) were excluded. To limit scope, we focus our discussion on product-like NbS (e.g., restoration, blue-green infrastructure, ecological engineering), and exclude processlike NbS (e.g., conservation, demand management, governance and finance innovation), recognizing that these are complementary, often with greater imperative, to sustainability transitions [24][25][26][27]. We include NbS involving ecosystems across biota scales, from microbiota (e.g., bacteria, archaea, fungi, phytoplankton, zooplankton, protozoa, etc.…”

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“…Less natural solutions, such as ecological forcing, are often justified with techno-economic efficacy rationale. This is despite the fact that many highly natural NbS are lower cost than industrial counterparts over long time horizons [24,32]. New York City's provisioning of drinking water is an oft-cited example, where conservation of watershed lands was far lower cost than installing improved technology.…”

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Maximizing Benefits to Nature and Society in Techno-Ecological Innovation for Water

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Nature-based solutions (NbS) build upon the proven contribution of well-managed and diverse ecosystems to enhance resilience of human societies. They include alternatives to techno-industrial solutions that aim to enhance social-ecological integration by providing simultaneous benefits to nature (such as biodiversity protection and green/blue space) and society (such as ecosystem services and climate resiliency). Yet, many NbS exhibit aspects of a technological or engineered ecosystem integrated into nature; this techno-ecological coupling has not been widely considered. In this work, our aim is to investigate this coupling through a high-level and cross-disciplinary analysis of NbS for water security (quantity, quality, and/or water-related risk) across the spectrums of naturalness, biota scale, and benefits to nature and society. Within the limitations of our conceptual analysis, we highlight the clear gap between “nature” and “nature-based” for most NbS. We present a preliminary framework for advancing innovation efforts in NbS towards maximizing benefits to both nature and society, and offer examples in biophysical innovation and innovation to maximize techno-ecological synergies (TES).

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“…From the IUCN´s perspective, NBS and GI are terms that fit the most to tackle urban stormwater runoff problems [65][66][67][68]. The EU Commission [69] also defines green infrastructure as a strategically environmental network designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services in both rural and urban settings.…”

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A Methodology of Policy Assessment at the Municipal Level: Costa Rica´s Readiness for the Implementation of Nature-Based-Solutions for Urban Stormwater Management

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2019

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Nature-based-solutions (NBS) pursue a combination of economic, social, and environmental benefits that can meet municipal goals on stormwater and rapid urbanization problems. However, NBS have fallen behind in reaching to the political and legal framework, and with this, to a policy mix for urban stormwater sustainability. When looking closer at NBS, it becomes evident that they are loaded with many barriers, including institutional and political ones, as well as those that exist in the urban area social context. These barriers are also deepened by the lack of policy guidelines and few demonstration projects. In this respect, this paper combines the concepts of urban experiments and the policy feedback cycle (PFC) into a singular assessment tool. It´s goal is to assess Costa Rica’s municipal readiness in the implementation of NBS within the context of policy design and implementation. Therefore, this paper focusses on the first two stages of the PFC of an existing urban experiment to extract its policy insights for the successful replication of NBS projects. This novel method aims to contribute to the ongoing debate with respect to the ability of experimentation to prompt scalability and transferability of results. Hence, the New York City Green Infrastructure plan is considered as an urban experiment that promotes sustainable policy initiatives; while the PFC can identify and (re)formulate these policies initiatives and barriers into an adaptable policy guideline. Results indicate that sustainability policies at the municipal level should incorporate incentive mechanisms policies on (i) community involvement and communication; and (ii) transdisciplinary knowledge transfer between specialists and stakeholders. Finally, this paper suggests the inter-municipal cross-institutional collaboration and the recognition of external trigger events to incentivize a sustainable urban transition.

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Natural infrastructure in the nexus

Cited by 20 publications

References 21 publications

Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure

Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure

Maximizing Benefits to Nature and Society in Techno-Ecological Innovation for Water

A Methodology of Policy Assessment at the Municipal Level: Costa Rica´s Readiness for the Implementation of Nature-Based-Solutions for Urban Stormwater Management

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