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Co-Creating Change: Seedbed Interventions as Catalysts for Equitable Urban Planning—The Case of Umeå
This article introduces the seedbed intervention as a novel, community‐driven, co‐creative approach to Nature‐based Solutions (NbS) that addresses gaps in equitable and inclusive urban planning frameworks.
Publication Date: 31 Jan 2025
Author(s): Gäckle et. al.
Storybook of NbS interventions and activities in six Cultivating Cities
This report tells the story of six different NbS interventions targeting health and well-being in urban areas, carried out in various cities in Europe. Each Cultivating City came up with their own unique and innovative ways to address these topics. Beginning in summer of 2023, the interventions, like physical installations in public space, were built and replenished by community, business and research events. The...
Publication Date: 31 Dec 2024
Author(s): Julia Gäckle, Shreya Utkarsh, Jannis Meul, Simon Race
GGR Poster Supporting Sustainable Communities
As part of a GoGreeRoutes project, Limerick City & County Council enabled this community led open space design based on Nature Based Solutions (NBS). Dr. Sarah O’Malley (Limerick City & County Council) guided the project from its onset to create a sustainable, vibrant and educational urban ‘Greenspace’, providing opportunities for social engagement, contact with the natural environment and active recreation, as well as...
Publication Date: 02 Dec 2024
Author(s): Limerick City and County Council
The environmental health citizen interview tool: towards an inclusive qualitative environmental wellbeing approach in support of planetary health
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are vital for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, yet their benefits are often unequally distributed. This study introduces the Environmental Health Citizen Interview Tool, aiming to inclusively capture diverse perspectives on environmental wellbeing using qualitative research methods. The principles of epistemic justice and planetary health are central to its development.
...Publication Date: 21 Nov 2024
Author(s): Ben Delbaere, Evelise Pereira Barboza, Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Mariia Chebotareva, Evelien Van Rafelghem, Lauren Blockmans, Hans Keune
On the need for a multi-dimensional framework to measure accessibility to urban green
With the recent expansion of urban greening interventions, the definition of spatial indicators to measure the provision of urban greenery has become pivotal in informing the policy-design process. By analyzing the stability of the population and area rankings induced by several indicators of green accessibility for over 1000 cities worldwide, we investigate the extent to which using a single metric provides a reliable...
Publication Date: 13 Nov 2024
Author(s): Alice Battison, Rossano Schifanella
