Description
The INTERLACE project aims to empower and equip European and CELAC cities to effectively restore and rehabilitate (peri)urban ecosystems towards more liveable, resilient and inclusive cities. The project applies an integrative, city-driven approach to address urban challenges through restorative nature-based solutions. A three-tiered mechanism for city and wider stakeholder exchange and learning will strengthen cooperation and peer-to-peer interactions on the local, regional (EU and CELAC) and global scales. Innovative forms of inclusive participation will optimise the collection of available knowledge and experiences and the co-production of governance instruments and tools for restorative nature-based solutions. Six committed EU and CELAC partner cities are central to this process, providing and sharing experiences with other cities globally and building technical and procedural capacities. The international city network partners UNGL, Climate Alliance and UCLG will facilitate a wide dissemination and application of project outputs through effective pathways to impact.
The web-based Innovation Hub will support these efforts, serving as a lasting platform enduring beyond the project duration for disseminating INTERLACE’s City Nature-based solutions Tool for urban ecosystem restoration and rehabilitation and promoting project result exploitation. Comprised of integrated assessment systems, a catalogue of policy and governance instruments, city impulse papers, business cases, guidance documents, and more, the tool will support decision-making processes for urban ecological restoration in EU and CELAC cities and beyond. INTERLACE will advance knowledge and awareness of restorative NBS, foster more ecologically coherent and integrated city planning processes, and lay the foundation for sustained multi-directional cooperation and exchange between EU and CELAC cities for wider transformative impact.
Publications
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Bridging local and global vulnerabilities for an integrated assessment of nature-based solutions
David Camacho-Caballero, Langemeyer J, Ricard Segura-Barrero, Gaël Vervoort, David Barton, Gara Villalba
(2025). Sustainable Cities and Society, 130: 106508.
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Procesos participativos inclusivos para la restauración de ecosistemas urbanos en un contexto de emergencia climática
Maestre-Andrés S, Salmon N., Yepez G.
(2023). Revista Papers, 65: 79-98.
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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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Nature-based Solutions as Nodes of Green-Blue Infrastructure Networks: A Crossscale, Co-creation Approach for Prioritization in the Barcelona Region
Langemeyer J, Baro F
(2021). Nature-based Solutions, IN PRESS.
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Urban agriculture, a necessary path to urban resiliency and global sustainability?
Langemeyer J, Madrid-Lopez C., Mendoza-Beltran A., Villalba G.
(2021). Landscape and Urban Planning, 210 (104055).
