Nature-Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities
A Framework Approach for Planning and Evaluation
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There is growing recognition and awareness that nature can help provide viable solutions to reduce vulnerability and generate value deploying the properties of ecosystems and the services they provide. Investing in nature can lead to substantial environmental, social and economic benefits by reducing pollution, decreasing energy costs, improving health and well-being and increasing resilience to climate change and natural disasters.
Nature-Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities makes a clear case of performances, impacts, and benefits generated by NBS in cities providing a comprehensive framework approach to understand the real and full potential of NBS at the urban level taking into account several aspects, from design and planning to socio-economic evaluation and financial issues. Given the multifunctionality of NBS, the book collects contributions from several international experts ensuring the interaction between different disciplines contributing to enrich and to disseminate knowledge about NBS.
SECTION 1 - NBS IN THE URBAN CONTEXT
- Chapter 1. What are NBS? The potential of nature in cities; Cecil Konijnendijk
- Chapter 2. The contribution of NBS to urban resilience; Ryan Bartlett and Jeet Mistry
- Chapter 3. Nature contribution to health and well-being in cities; David Rojas Rueda
- Chapter 4. NBS for urban biodiversity; Sarah Clement
- Chapter 5. An ecosystem services-based approach to frame NBS in urban context; Alessandra La Notte and Grazia Zulian
- SECTION 2 - DESIGN AND PLANNING NBS AT URBAN SCALE
- Chapter 6. Renaturalization as a dimension of urban planning; Steffen Lehmann
- Chapter 7. Planning and designing NBS towards new co-existence models; Stefano Boeri, Maria Chiara Pastore, and Livia Shamir
- Chapter 8. Sustainability assessment of urban infrastructures; Adam Barker, Efren Feliú, Gemma Garcia-Blanco, Kornelia Kwiecinska and Blanca Pedrola
- Chapter 9. The role of nature in urban regeneration; Maria Beatrice Andreucci
- Chapter 10. Collaborative governance arrangements for co-creation of NBS; Bettina Wilk, Ina Säumel, and Daniela Rizzi
- SECTION 3 - THE EVALUATION OF NBS IN CITIES
- Chapter 11. An evaluation framework to assess multiple benefits of NBS: innovative approaches and KPIs; Raúl Sánchez Francés,Silvia Gómez Valle, Nuria García Rueda, Benedetta Lucchitta, and Edoardo Croci
- Chapter 12. Valuation methodologies of ecosystem services provided by NBS in urban areas; Benedetta Lucchitta and Edoardo Croci
- Chapter 13. Valuation of urban ecosystem services as NBS; Sarai Pouso and Erik Gómez-Baggethun
- Chapter 14. The social impacts of NBS: access to and accessibility of green spaces as a measure of social inclusiveness and environmental justice; Simone Borelli, Michela Conigliaro, and Fabio Salbitano
- SECTION 4 - POLICIES AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF NBS IN CITIES
- Chapter 15. The international policy framework for NBS: exploring the urban environmental stewardship; Ugo Guarnacci
- Chapter 16. Policy instruments to foster NBS implementation; Aldo Ravazzi
- Chapter 17. Financial instruments to create and maintain NBS; David Uzsoki, Liesbeth Casier, and Laurin Wuennenberg
- Chapter 18. The cost of nature: implementation, management and maintenance costs for NBS; Barbara Colaninno, Francesca Neonato, and Francesco Tomasinelli
- Chapter 19. Unlocking Nature’s Potential – NBS and Business; Hugo Rosa da Conceição and Helen Finlay
- SECTION 5 - NBS CASE STUDIES
- Chapter 20. Green Infrastructure Ruhr: urban regeneration through NBS; Michael Schwarze-Rodrian
- Chapter 21. The new frontiers of sustainable local development. A decade of growth, disruptions and infrastructure investments in the Paris Ile de France Region; Nicolas J.A. BUCHOUD and Carine Bernede
- Chapter 22. Beijing afforestation project; Wendy Y. Chen, Cheng Wang, and Jiali Jin
- Chapter 23. Environmental stewardship as community reclamation: the role of community land managers in New York city’s urban ecology; Lida Aljabar
- Chapter 24. Innovative Policies for Urban Rivers’ Restoration in Belo Horizonte; Leon Norking Rangel, Carlos Rigolo Lopes, and José A. Puppim de Oliveira
- Chapter 25. Collaborative governance arrangements for co-creation of NBS: a selection of global cases; Daniela Rizzi and Bettina Wilk
Edoardo Croci is Director of the Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab at Bocconi University, Milan, where he is also a member of the Managing Committee and Senior Research Fellow of GREEN research center. He is Professor of practice at Bocconi University, where he teaches courses on environmental economics and climate policy. He is former Councilor for Mobility and the Environment of Milan Municipality and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency of Lombardy Region.
Benedetta Lucchitta is Researcher at GREEN research center and at the Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab of Bocconi University. Her research is focused on ecosystem services assessment, nature-based solutions, and climate change adaptation and mitigation policies at the urban level. She holds an MSc in Planning and policies for cities and the environment and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning and policies at IUAV University.