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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A tag is worth a thousand pictures: A framework for an empirically grounded typology of relational values through social media
Calcagni F, Nogué Batallé, Julia, Baro F, Langemeyer J
(2022). Ecosystem Services, 58: 101495.
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Based on nature, enabled by social-ecological-technological context – deriving benefit from urban green and blue infrastructure.
Erik Andersson, Haase D, Kronenberg J, Langemeyer J, Mascarenhas A., Wolff, Manuel, Elmqvist T
(2022). Ecology & Society, 27 (4).
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Greenery in urban morphology: a comparative analysis of differences in urban green space accessibility for various urban structures across European cities
Łaszkiewicz, Edyta, Wolff, Manuel, Erik Andersson, Kronenberg J, David Barton, Haase D, Langemeyer J, Baro F, McPhearson T
(2022). Ecology and Society, 27 (3).
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Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities planning and governance in eleven European cities
(2022). European Planning Studies, 0 (0): 1-24.
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Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban regions: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia
Zapata, Emmanuel, Calcagni F, Baro F, Langemeyer J
(2022). Ecosystem Services , 56 (101445).
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A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities. Ecology and Society
Andersson E, Borgström S., Haase D, Langemeyer J, Mascarenhas A., McPhearson T, Wolff, Manuel
(2021). Ecology and Society , 26 (2): 35.
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Adaptive resilience of and through urban ecosystem services: A transdisciplinary approach to sustainability in Barcelona
DeLuca, Claudia, Langemeyer J, Vano, Simon, Baro F, Andersson E
(2021). Ecology & Society, IN PRESS.
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Assessing the learning process in transdisciplinary research through a novel analytical approach
Mascarenhas A., Langemeyer J, Haase D, Borgström S., Andersson E
(2021). Ecology & Society, 24 (4): 19.
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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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Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure - retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo
Venter, David Barton, Langemeyer J, Baro F, McPhearson T
(2021). Ecosystem Services, 50: 101314.