Description
In an increasingly urbanized world, Green-Based Infrastructure (GBI) has the potential to tackle multiple environmental and social challenges, such as human wellbeing, social inequality, biodiversity loss and climate change impacts such as flooding. However, the successful design and implementation of GBI requires careful consideration of a number of key aspects, including people’s perceptions of the benefits of GBI, barriers to the equitable distribution of benefits and strategies for making the flow of benefits resilient.
The ENABLE project aims to develop and test new methods and tools to leverage the potential of GBI interventions in neighbourhoods and across metropolitan regions while adopting a social and environmental justice perspective and taking into account the perceptions of local stakeholders. It will test possible GBI interventions in the metropolitan regions of Halle, Barcelona, Łódź, Stockholm and Oslo, while also exchanging with the city of New York. It examines three key questions:
- How and under what conditions are the benefits provided by GBI most appreciated by people?
- How accessible are GBI benefits, and how are they distributed among urban residents?
- How can the continuation of GBI benefit-flows be secured in the long-term?
The project will organize capacity building workshops, webinars and multi-stakeholder meetings to create opportunities for learning and to foster collaboration within and between the case study cities and other cities across Europe. This will support more effective urban planning and decision-making, design and implementation of GBI, and ultimately contribute to a more sustainable urban future.
Publications
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Editorial to the special issue “Advancing urban ecosystem service implementation and assessment considering different dimensions of environmental justice”
Baro F, Langemeyer J, Łaszkiewicz, E, Kabisch N
(2021). Environmental Science & Policy, 115: 43-46.
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School greening: Right or privilege? Examining urban nature within and around primary schools through an equity lens
Baro F, Camacho, D, Pérez del Pulgar C, Triguero-Mas M, Anguelovski I
(2021). Landscape and Urban Planning, 208: 104019.
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Advancing the green infrastructure approach in the Province of Barcelona: Integrating biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services into landscape planning
Basnou, C., Baro F, Langemeyer J, Castell, C., Dalmases, C.
(2020). Urban forestry and urban greening , In press.
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Creating urban green infrastructure where it is needed – A spatial ecosystem service-based decision analysis of green roofs in Barcelona
Langemeyer J, Wedgwood, D., David Barton, Baro F, McPhearson T
(2020). Science of the Total Environment, 707 (10): 135487.
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Expanding the boundaries of justice and equity in urban greening scholarship: Towards an emancipatory, intersectional, and relational approach
Anguelovski I, Brand A, Connolly J.T, Corbera E, Kotsila P, Steil J, Garcia-Lamarca M, Triguero-Mas M, Cole H, Baro F, Langemeyer J, Pérez del Pulgar C, Shokry G, Sekulova F, Argüelles L
(2020). Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 110 (6): 1743-1769.
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Hidden Drivers Of Social Injustice: Uncovering Unequal Cultural Ecosystem Services Behind Green Gentrification
Amorim-Maia, A.T., Calcagni F, Connolly J.T, Anguelovski I, Langemeyer J
(2020). Environmental Science and Policy: 254-263.
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Improving collaboration between ecosystem service communities and the IPBES science-policy platform
Washbourne C.L., et al, Baro F, et al
(2020). Ecosystems and People, 16 (1): 165-174.
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Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes
Kotsila P, Anguelovski I, , Baro F, Langemeyer J
(2020). Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space: 1–23.
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Weaving notion of justice into urban ecosystem service research and practice
Langemeyer J, Connolly J.T
(2020). Environmental Science and Policy: 1-14.
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Digital co-construction of relational values: understanding the role of social media for sustainability
Calcagni F, Amorim-Maia, A.T., Connolly J.T, Langemeyer J
(2019). Sustainability Science: 1309-1321.