den Ouden, Elke

Fidelis, Teresa

Lameiras, David

Lehmann, Martin

Roebeling, Peter

Valkenburg, Rianne

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According to the European Commission’s working definition of Nature Based Solutions (NBS),these are diverse solutions inspired and supported by nature, delivering co-benefits in thetriple bottom line. Properly implemented, NBS work as modular vehicles for ecosystemservices (ES). To test the effectiveness of NBS in urban climate resilience strategies and tomainstream them towards a 2050 scenario, the H2020 UNaLab project provides cities acrossthe world with know-how, tools, technical assistance and network support.To address thechallenge’s complexity, UNaLab calls for the participation of diverse stakeholders inprospective planning exercises following the Roadmapping Methodology (RM). Previously,researchers and practitioners have affirmed the capacity of the RM to increase participation,develop ownership, and make more just decision-making processes. These features arerelevant when stakeholders aim to give place to commonly shared ES in their city – i.e. urbancommons. The present research studies the potential of the RM to enable stakeholdercooperation beyond the planning stage and, thus, providing an alternative approach totaking ownership of and managing the urban commons.A literature review framed theconceptualization of urban ES as urban commons, and allowed a clear understanding of theRM principles and modes of implementation. Then, surveys and interviews with UNaLab RMpractitioners allowed to assess the actual implementation of the RM and its potential forcooperative engagement and democratic community development. Results show that goodpractices, such as the importance of soft-skills for facilitation to enable stakeholderparticipation and visual media to support sense-making, and areas of opportunity such as amethodic approach to address biases in stakeholder selection and allowing participants to influence the RM activities to locally-attune them, are relevant to enable the potential of theRM to deploy collective action for managing urban commons created by NBS

Assessing the potential of roadmapping methodologies to enable cooperative institutions for managing the commons:The case of Nature Based Solutions for urban climate change adaptation

https://vbn.aau.dk/files/305772143/ESP_EU_2018.pdf

Assessing the potential of roadmapping methodologies to enable cooperative institutions for managing the commons:The case of Nature Based Solutions for urban climate change adaptation

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