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Title: | What does it take to renature cities? An expert-based analysis of barriers and strategies for the implementation of nature-based solutions |
Authors: | Castellar, JAC Popartan, LA Pucher, B Pineda-Martos, R Hecht, K Katsou, E Nika, CE Junge, R Langergraber, G Atanasova, N Comas, J Monclús, H Pueyo-Ros, J |
Issue Date: | 20-Feb-2024 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Castellar, J.A.C. et al. (2024) 'What does it take to renature cities? An expert-based analysis of barriers and strategies for the implementation of nature-based solutions', Journal of Environmental Management, 354, 120385, pp. 1 - 16. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120385. |
Abstract: | This paper uses an expert-based methodology to survey the barriers and strategies related to the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS). The ambition of the paper is to offer a bird's eye overview of the difficulties encountered by NBS deployment and ways to overcome them. With a wide participation of 80 experts from COST Action Circular City, we identify barriers specific to 35 pre-defined NBS of the following four categories: Vertical Greening Systems and Green Roofs; Food and Biomass Production; Rainwater Management; and Remediation, Treatment, and Recovery. The research sheds light on how a major interdisciplinary – yet predominantly technically-oriented - community of scientists and practitioners views this important topic. Overall, the most relevant barriers are related to technological complexity, lack of skilled staff and training programs and the lack of awareness that NBS is an option. Our results highlight concerns related to post implementation issues, especially operation and maintenance, which subsequently affect social acceptance. The paper identifies a “chain” effect across barriers, meaning that one barrier can affect the existence or the relevance of other barriers. In terms of strategies, most of them target governance, information, and education aspects, despite the predominantly technical expertise of the participants. The study innovates with respect to state-of-the-art research by showing a fine-grained connection between barriers, strategies and individual NBS and categories, a level of detail which is not encountered in any other study to date. |
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Data will be made available on request. Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479724003712#appsec1 . |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/29108 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120385 |
ISSN: | 0301-4797 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Lucia Alexandra Popartan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2708-9813 120385 ORCiD: Bernhard Pucher https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1666-0906 ORCiD: Katharina Hecht https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5203-7362 ORCiD: Evina Katsou https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2638-7579 ORCiD: Ranka Junge https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6612-4263 ORCiD: Günter Langergraber https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4334-9563 ORCiD: Nataša Atanasova https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8506-1667 ORCiD: Joaquim Comas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5692-0282 ORCiD: Hèctor Monclús https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0072-6069 ORCiD: Josep Pueyo-Ros https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1236-5651 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Papers |
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