Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making

Frantzeskaki, Niki; McPhearson, Timon; Collier, Marcus; Kendal, Dave; Bulkeley, Harriet; Dumitru, Adina; Walsh, Claire; Noble, Kate; Wyk, E. van; Ordóñez, Camilo; Oke, Cathy; Pintér, László

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“…Using such frameworks for longitudinal monitoring of innovative demonstrations would create evidence of human and ecological health outcomes achieved by implementing hybrid solutions in green, connected, and biodiverse built environments and transport corridors. 90 Connecting People and Place Research that explores the practices, values, meanings, motivations, and actions of communities will help us understand the local implications of creating transformative cities. 91 In-depth qualitative work, large-scale quantitative surveys, and social media analysis can generate detailed, place-based, and actionable information about individual and community values, preferences, and practices, and how they relate to urban infrastructure services needs.…”

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“…80,99,100 This research will identify regulatory mechanisms, business models, and servicing strategies that can unlock private financing, manage key risks that emerge in reconfigured utility markets, enable more flexible and diverse servicing options for customers, and ensure social equity in delivering hybrid solutions. 90 Scaling the Uptake of Hybrid Systems Technical innovations must be coupled with enabling spatial, social, political, and institutional conditions to accelerate their pathway from experiment to mainstream. We need action research to develop practice-led theory of scaling that identifies design principles and processes for maximizing the transformative potential of experiments to enable rapid uptake.…”

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Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices

2020

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Many global cities and towns are facing complex and interrelated challenges associated with population growth, resource constraints, aging infrastructure, and degraded environments, exacerbated by increasing climate uncertainty. The United Nation's Agenda 2030 is a global call to action with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Water is the common currency linking nearly every SDG. SDG 11 aspires to ''Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable'' and the water-sensitive city represents an aspirational future state for water management where servicing strategies deliver long-term sustainability, liveability, resilience, and prosperity. This social-technical endeavor is based on three principles of practice proposed in 2009. They have since been operationalized and adapted in many projects globally, and across a range of social, institutional, and biophysical contexts. In this Perspective, we reflect on lessons learned, required actions for mainstreaming water-sensitive practices, the next-wave research agenda, and opportunities to catalyze actions in sectors beyond water. ll

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Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices

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“…(Seneviratne et al 2018)), which requires cautious implementation for the desired outcomes (Kapsalis et al 2014, Ma et al 2017. Another effective heat abatement strategy is the use of nature-based solutions (Frantzeskaki et al 2019), such as restoration of city parks, tree lined streets, gardens, and green facades, i.e. 'greenspace' (Aram et al 2019).…”

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“…With increasing efforts of urban greening (e.g. the 'Million Tree Program' in many mega-cities (Frantzeskaki et al 2019)) and low-impact development with water-sensitive urban design (Coutts et al 2014, He et al 2019b, there is a pressing need to accurately evaluate the programs' effectiveness at the city scale, given the existing green or blue spaces.…”

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Greenspace, bluespace, and their interactive influence on urban thermal environments

2020

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Urban land use land cover (LULC) change raises ambient temperature and modifies atmospheric moisture, which increases heat-related health risks in cities. Greenspace and bluespace commonly coexist in urban landscapes and are nature-based heat mitigation strategies. Yet, their interactive effects on urban thermal environments are rarely assessed and it remains unclear how extreme heat events (EHEs) affect their ability to regulate human thermal comfort. Using multi-year observations from a dense urban observational network in Madison, WI, we found that green and blue spaces jointly modify the intraurban spatiotemporal variability of temperature and humidity, and the resultant effects on thermal comfort show diurnal and seasonal asymmetry. Greenspace is more effective at cooling throughout the year, particularly at night. Accelerated cooling efficiency is found in areas with dominant greenspace coverage and little co-influence from bluespace. The thermal comfort benefit due to greenspaces can be offset by bluespaces because of intensified nighttime warming and humidifying effects during the warm months, although a weak daytime cooling of bluespace is observed. EHEs enhance bluespace cooling, but the overall joint thermal regulation remains the same due to the enhanced moisture effect. Our findings suggest that diverse outcomes of green and blue spaces cross multiple temporal scales should be holistically assessed in urban planning. The analysis framework based on generalized additive models is robust and transferable to other cities and applications to disentangle the nonlinear co-influences of different drivers of urban environmental phenomena.

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“…Another more recently used term is Urban Green Space (UGS), defined as the natural, semi-natural, and artificial ecological systems within and around a city that comprise a range of habitats (Niemela et al 2010;Cilliers et al 2013;Aronson et al 2017). Additionally, the term Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) has gained considerable traction, particularly in Europe (Eggermont et al 2015;Cohen-Shacham et al 2016;Maes and Jacob 2017;Kabisch et al 2017;Frantzeskaki et al 2019;Keeler et al 2019), although this concept seems to be more focused on goal-oriented engineering rather than on the natural infrastructure itself (Nesshover et al 2017, WWAP/UN-Water 2018. The definitions of GI, GBI, UGS, and NBS overlap considerably, and all are routinely coupled with the ecosystem services concept (e.g., Gomez-Baggethun et al 2013;Andersson et al 2015;Locke and McPhearson 2018;Keeler et al 2019).…”

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Urban Ecological Infrastructure: An inclusive concept for the non-built urban environment

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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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Infrastructure and nature in cities Homo sapiens is becoming an increasingly urban species (Wigginton et al. 2016; Elmqvist et al. 2018; NSF AC-ERE 2018), a global shift that underscores the profound importance of understanding urban ecosystems. Cities, as concentrated consumers of energy and resources, are producers of various wastes, but they are also centers of innovation, efficiency, social networks, and solutions (David 1995; Grimm et al. 2008; Bettencourt et al. 2009; Pickett et al. 2013; Grimm and Schindler 2018). Cities are designed and built to be human habitats, and the result is urban infrastructure. Infrastructure is typically defined as the physical components of interrelated systems that provide commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions (sensu Neuman and Smith 2010). In its classical definition, infrastructure is generally restricted to the built [and otherwise human-constructed] environment; this is the way architects, engineers, and city planners and managers often think of it. In contrast, our focus here is on non-built "nature in cities" infrastructure and the broader adoption of a more inclusive term and concept for it: Urban Ecological Infrastructure (UEI). The traditional concept of infrastructure likely began to expand to include nature in cities with the designs

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Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making

Cited by 263 publications

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Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices

Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices

Greenspace, bluespace, and their interactive influence on urban thermal environments

Urban Ecological Infrastructure: An inclusive concept for the non-built urban environment

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