Re-thinking people and nature interactions in urban nature-based solutions

Laurence Jones; Sally Anderson; Jeppe Læssøe; Ellen Banzhaf; Anne Jensen; Annie Tubadji; Michael Hutchins; Jun Yang; Tim Taylor; Benedict  Wheeler; David Fletcher; Thora Tenbrink; Liz Wilcox-Jones; Signe Iversen; Åsa  Sang; Tao Lin; Yaoyang Xu; Lingwen  Lu; Gregor Levin; Marianne Zandersen

doi:10.3390/su17073043

Re-thinking people and nature interactions in urban nature-based solutions

Laurence Jones, Sally Anderson, Jeppe Læssøe, Ellen Banzhaf, Anne Jensen, Annie Tubadji, Michael Hutchins, Jun Yang, Tim Taylor, Benedict Wheeler, David Fletcher, Thora Tenbrink, Liz Wilcox-Jones, Signe Iversen, Åsa Sang, Tao Lin, Yaoyang Xu, Lingwen Lu, Gregor Levin, Marianne Zandersen

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Abstract

People-environment interactions within nature-based solutions (NBS) are not always understood. This has implications for communicating the benefits of NBS and for how we plan cities. We present a framework that highlights a duality in NBS. The NBS as an asset includes both natural capital and human-centred capital, including organisational structures. NBS also exist as a system within which people are able to interact. Temporal and spatial scales moderate the benefits that NBS provide, which in turn are dependent on the scale at which social processes operate. Co-production and equity are central to the interactions among people and institutions in the design, use and management of NBS, and this requires clear communication. Drawing on ideas from culture-based development (CBD), we suggest an approach to communicate the benefits of NBS in a neutral but effective way. We propose guidelines for planning NBS that allow the optimisation of NBS locations and designs for particular outcomes.

Original language	English
Article number	3043
Journal	Sustainability
Volume	17
Issue number	7
Early online date	29 Mar 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su17073043
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 29 Mar 2025

Keywords

cities
co-production
ecosystem services
framework
green infrastructure (GI)
green space

UN SDGs

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Jones, L., Anderson, S., Læssøe, J., Banzhaf, E., Jensen, A., Tubadji, A., Hutchins, M., Yang, J., Taylor, T., Wheeler, B., Fletcher, D., Tenbrink, T., Wilcox-Jones, L., Iversen, S., Sang, Å., Lin, T., Xu, Y., Lu, L., Levin, G., & Zandersen, M. (2025). Re-thinking people and nature interactions in urban nature-based solutions. Sustainability, 17(7), Article 3043. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17073043

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Re-thinking people and nature interactions in urban nature-based solutions

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