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Engagement of Marginalised Groups in NBS Planning and Management via Long-Term Mosaic Governance

Project
Funded
Category
Project
Call
DUT Call 2022
Duration
Project coordinator
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

While many local governments have applied degrees of engagement of users within their formal, bureaucratic, and hierarchical organisational structure, there is a demand for new governance structures that recognise the need for intra-organisational changes to overcome departmental silo effects, as well as to perform planning and management of NBS with users, rather than for users. 

NATURO study how quality of life can be increased for marginalised groups, by using the potential of nature. We are developing a strategic framework for capacity building and empowerment of both local government and civil society stakeholders to co-create NBS. 
 

NATURO re-develops existing urban NBS in small-scale, local, co-development  interventions – Micro Urban Living Labs (MULLs) in three European cities: Velenje in Slovenia, Tyresö in Sweden and Den Bosch in The Netherlands.

NATURO acts at the nexus of research, practice and policy to create an empirically tested framework that local governments can use to support the wider use of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) across different user groups.

The Strategic Framework is being used, evaluated and refined in real-life settings, in order to serve and strengthen both the social and ecological resilience of urban areas.

Participating countries

The Netherlands

Slovenia

Sweden

Funded project partners

Living Cities Stockholm, The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN), Tyresö Kommun, Urbanisticni Institut Republike Slovenije Javni Zavod, Wageningen University

Other project partners

Gemeente ‘S-Hertogenbosch, Mestna Obcina Velenje, Tyresö Kommun

Contact

Thomas B. Randrup
thomas.randrup@slu.se

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