Urban transformation with TURAS open innovations; opportunities for transitioning through transdisciplinarity

Collier, Marcus; Connop, Stuart; Foley, Karen; Nedović‐Budić, Zorica; Newport, Darryl J.; Corcoran, Aoife; Crowe, Philip; Dunne, Louise; Moel, Hans de; Kampelmann, Stephan; McQuaid, Siobhán; Raumer, Hans-Georg Schwarz von; Slaev, Aleksandar D.; Stumpp, Eva-Maria; Abeele, Patrick Van Den; Vandergert, Paula

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2017.04.005

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“…Thus, the approach proposed is not a purely technical one-it explicitly recognizes that successful implementation of any catchment scheme requires the "buy in" of people who live and work in catchments. The CSE practitioner needs to be able to work across disciplines, ideally involving stakeholders in knowledge co-production, co-creation, and design of interventions (Ahern, Cilliers, & Niemelä, 2014;Collier et al, 2016). This is especially true where solutions require multiple small-scale interventions distributed across a catchment.…”

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Catchment systems engineering: An holistic approach to catchment management

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Hydrological catchments today are largely the product of human activity. They have been engineered. The negative impacts of some of this engineering such as deforestation and agriculture intensification need to be addressed but the solution is not simply a matter of doing the opposite, for example through afforestation or moving to less-intensive farming. We propose a catchment systems engineering (CSE) approach that utilizes and expands on existing catchment-based approaches, combining interventions that work with or mimic natural processes with traditional "hard" engineering to provide a practical route to improved catchment function. The approach is predicated on the need to take an holistic view of catchments and to make proactive interventions that provide and enhance multiple ecosystem services. CSE seeks to address problems that are international in scope, recognizing the need to understand better how hydrological processes have changed due to human activity and how those changes influence frequency, duration, and severity of environmental problems such as floods, droughts, and poor water quality. The emphasis is placed on how we can act to engineer catchment systems to a safer functionally appropriate level utilizing measures such as nature-based solutions alongside traditional engineering structures. CSE is the means to provide multiple ecosystem services while recognizing trade-offs between reducing flood and drought risk directly, improving water quality and creating healthy habitats for wildlife. By targeting local hydrological flow pathways in defined spatial and temporal windows (e.g., during rainfall events at key locations such as riparian zones), CSE can deliver holistic water resource management now.

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Catchment systems engineering: An holistic approach to catchment management

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“…Through this collaboration, the focus shifts to ensuring transdisciplinarity through knowledge co-creation and co-production, the engagement of communities of interest and communities of influence, and the development of new technological and NbS to sustainability challenges. Through a transdisciplinary approach, which involves the co-production of knowledge and the co-creation of ideas and solutions and which draws strengths of different academic and non-academic disciplines to address a complex issue [25], ReNature has brought together communities-of-interest (i.e. from academia, government organisations, public bodies, NGOs) that are continually seeking active engagement in decisionmaking and positive control in city making by creating a National Research and Innovation Cluster.…”

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Renaturing Malta: Developing a Capacity-Building Strategy for the Mainstreaming of Nature-Based Solutions

Tomaškinová¹,

Geneletti²,

Grace³

et al. 2021

EDULEARN Proceedings

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Nature based solutions (NbS) have the potential to build climate resilience and tackle key societal challenges while also providing multiple co-benefits to biodiversity and human well-being. The demand for nature-based innovation is strongly felt in Malta -a small island state, with the highest population density in the European Union. Learning and training play a pivotal role in the endeavour to create sustainable societies. Current environmental, social and economic challenges to meet the balance of the four dimensions of sustainable development (social, environmental, economic and governance) require new ways of thinking and acting. The ReNature project helps to facilitate international knowledge exchange for the mainstreaming of NbS, via holistic and interdisciplinary stakeholder education. This will be demonstrated through increasing outstanding research initiatives in NbS for innovation, sustainable economic growth and human well-being in Malta. The ReNature consortium is working towards increasing the range of appropriate learning opportunities and sharing experiences about NbS implementation around the Mediterranean basin. The outcomes of this project will foster capacity building and enhance research excellence in the field of NbS through a number of strategically designed training activities and project outputs in topics related to the key areas of this concept. This article is aimed at presenting the ReNature capacity-building framework and learning model. We believe that these tools are setting a direction for learning that is based on values, principles and practices which are indispensable to respond effectively to current and future challenges.

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“…In the three analysed projects, this approach was addressed through the establishment of multidisciplinary teams (including the involvement of different City Council departments and interdisciplinary coordination profiles such as the Urban Resilience Officer in Paris) and the early engagement with multiple end users, including schoolchildren, school staff, parents and also urban residents more widely, throughout the different stages of the implementation process. In fact, the ambitious co-design strategy developed in all projects and applied in most pilot schools (from diagnosis of current state to evaluation of implemented measures) contributed to overcome several implementation challenges such as negative perceptions by some stakeholders, a problem frequently cited in other NBS projects (Collier et al 2016). The exclusion of potential users, their knowledge and experience from the co-design process could negatively affect the effectiveness of the resulting adaptation measures (Muñoz-Erickson et al 2017).…”

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Nature-Based Climate Solutions in European Schools: A Pioneering Co-designed Strategy Towards Urban Resilience

Baró

Camacho

Pulgar

et al. 2022

The Urban Book Series

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As cities around the world are increasingly facing the impacts of climate change, a growing number of municipalities are leading collaborative projects to adapt schools to rising temperatures. The implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) is highlighted as an important component to be included in these initiatives given their multifunctional and cost-effective character. However, the challenges and upscaling opportunities of these pioneering projects are still not well understood nor systematically studied on a comparative basis. This study explores and compares three European pilot nature-based projects aiming to make schools more resilient to climate change impacts while creating other co-benefits for children and the wider local community. These projects are Oasis (Paris), Climate Shelters (Barcelona) and Care in School Environments (Madrid). Building on a framework for assessing the co-benefits of urban NBS, the comparative analysis explores the selection criteria of schools and their equity implications, the multifunctional role of NBS beyond climate adaptation, the main aspects and challenges related to the co-design process and the subsequent project implementation and the potential for upscaling at the city level. Based on this exploration, we contend that nature-based climate adaptation projects in schools can be a spearhead for a wider community-based strategy towards urban resilience.

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Urban transformation with TURAS open innovations; opportunities for transitioning through transdisciplinarity

Cited by 18 publications

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Catchment systems engineering: An holistic approach to catchment management

Catchment systems engineering: An holistic approach to catchment management

Renaturing Malta: Developing a Capacity-Building Strategy for the Mainstreaming of Nature-Based Solutions

Nature-Based Climate Solutions in European Schools: A Pioneering Co-designed Strategy Towards Urban Resilience

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