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Organized Oral Session

OOS 60 - Finding Pathways for Urban Nature-Based Solutions Across the World Regions

Thursday, August 10, 2023
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
Location: 252

    Organizer(s)

  • LD

    Loan Diep

    The New School, United States

    • Co-Organizer(s)

  • TM

    Timon McPhearson

    Professor and Director
    Urban Systems Lab, The New School, New York, United States

The sixth and latest Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2022 demonstrated there is robust evidence and high agreement over ways through which Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can support synergistic climate action to help cities increase their resilience capacity, and particularly for temperature regulation, sanitation and stormwater risk mitigation, coastal flood protection, and water management. However, AR6 also demonstrated that important uncertainty remains around the potential of NBS due to the inconsistency of the current evidence for different types of NBS across global regions.

The aim of NATURA’s 2022-2024 project “Urban NBS Global Roadmap” is to build regional NBS assessments that consolidate the existing evidence and further characterize innovative pathways to leverage opportunities for the mainstreaming of NBS globally. While many ongoing initiatives have analyzed and drawn lessons from the NBS literature and current NBS projects, none of these have conducted comparable global assessment with a focus on urban contexts.

This session will share initial findings on 1) current urban NBS knowledge and gaps based on a bibliometric analysis of the literature conducted at regional level; 2) the analysis of case studies that help navigate regional commonalities and differences, including on the need to develop research on the ecosystems’ resilience itself (as opposed to ecosystems development for societal resilience), as well as to map out the range of actors involved, scales of implementation, and the policy frameworks in place to support the mainstreaming of NBS. The session will start with an introduction to NATURA’s Urban NBS Global Roadmap project and will be followed by five talks focusing on NBS in the context of a specific region. Talks will provide an analysis of the literature, regional assessments of the practice of NBS through case studies, or a combination of both.

Presentations:

  • 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT
    Understanding Nature-Based Solutions in the Context of African Cities

    Presenting Author: Pippin Anderson, PhD – Dept Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town

    Co-author: Ernita van Wyk, PhD – ICLEI Africa

    Co-author: Julie Goodness, PhD – ICLEI Africa

    Co-author: Bongiwe Simka – ICLEI Africa

  • 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    The Global State of Nature-Based Solutions Knowledge: Where Are We?

    Presenting Author: Rebecca Tiernan – Arizona State University

    Co-author: Loan Diep – The New School

    Co-author: Natalie Pierson – The New School

    Co-author: Timon McPhearson – Urban Systems Lab, The New School

  • 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT
    Opportunities and Challenges to Multi-Scalar Nature-Based Solutions for Cities in Latin America & the Caribbean

    Presenting Author: Taícia Marques – Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina

    Co-author: Loan Diep – The New School

  • 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT
    Nature-Based Solutions in Africa: Focus on Rights Based Approaches as Best Practice

    Presenting Author: Funmi Adeniyi – ICLEI Africa

    Co-author: Kevin Mutia – ICLEI Africa

  • 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT
    Trends and prospects for urban nature in Asia: A review of the literature on nature-based solutions

    Presenting Author: Perrine Hamel – Nanyang Technological University

  • 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
    Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions in European Cities: Policies, Actions and Challenges

    Presenting Author: Natalie Gulsrud – University of Copenhagen

    Co-author: Christopher M. Raymond, PhD – University of Helsinki

    Co-author: Oriol García Antúnez – University of Copenhagen

    Co-author: davide geneletti, PhD – University of Trento

    Co-author: frederic lemaitre – French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB)

    Co-author: Eugenia Castellazzi – University of Helsinki

    Co-author: Jarumi Kato huerta, PhD – University of Trento