governance for urban sustainability transitions bringing the
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Governance for Urban Sustainability Transitions Bringing the Ecosystem Services’ Framework
to urban planning practice
Dr. Niki Frantzeskaki Associate Professor on Sustainability Transitions’ Governance
DRIFT - Dutch Research Institute For Transitions, Faculty of Social Sciences Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Presentation at URBES Final Conference “Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”
Brussels, 14 January 2015
Urban Governance
2. ES as diagnostic lens for urban governance & dynamics
1. ES as supporting & add-on tool for urban planning
3. ES as a ‘meta-translation’ tool of citizens’ perceptions
• ES shows where co-benefits in policy programs can be searched
• ES to diagnose disintegration and policy blind-spots • Knowledge co-production to elucidate governance dynamics
• ES as a supporting concept for plan and policy making explaining the importance of ecosystem protection
• ES as an ‘structuring’ strategic tool to supplement existing planning frameworks
• ES to guide work on translating perceptions to profiles • Nature perception profiles to complement criteria for
maintaining and planning of urban green spaces in cities
Ecosystem Services Framework
ES as supporting tool for urban planning
ES fitness with existing planning
paradigm?
Frame for advocacy purposes (boundary integration)
How to mainstream ES in urban planning? - Frame for advocacy purposes:
importance of biodiversity conservation - Add-on framework: complement rather
than replace current planning tools
2. ES as diagnostic lens for urban governance & dynamics • ES shows where co-benefits in policy programs can be searched
• ES to diagnose disintegration and policy blind-spots • Knowledge co-production to elucidate governance dynamics
• current strategy of densification (may) limit opportunities for greening in the
inner city; space for experimenting may be freed up in the periphery of the city • need for planning guidelines about designation areas for greening • need for new ways to engage with citizens and ensure participation in planning • no strategy on how to scale-up greening pilots in other locations
Greening of the river banks Boompjeskade pilot location
Water retention (water strategy – living with water ) Greenification (urban sustainability agenda goal)
2. ES as diagnostic lens for urban governance & dynamics • ES shows where co-benefits in policy programs can be searched
• ES to diagnose disintegration and policy blind-spots • Knowledge co-production to elucidate governance dynamics
• Increasing demand for housing space and the profit-interest of investors resulting from increasing population numbers
• Financial limitations within public authority
• Need to ensure participation with population groups
‘love of nature’ ‘recreation & connection’
‘social setting & relaxation’
Profiles of park users based on their nature-perception, rather than demographic data, visiting frequency, or proximity, can inform urban planning projects on priorities for conservation, restoration & development of urban green areas.
3. ES as a ‘meta-translation’ tool of citizens’ perceptions
Urban Governance
2. ES as diagnostic lens for urban governance & dynamics
1. ES as supporting & add-on tool for urban planning
3. ES as a ‘meta-translation’ tool of citizens’ perceptions
• ES shows where co-benefits in policy programs can be searched
• ES to diagnose disintegration and policy blind-spots • Knowledge co-production to elucidate governance dynamics
• ES as a supporting concept for plan and policy making explaining the importance of ecosystem protection
• ES as an ‘structuring’ strategic tool to supplement existing planning frameworks
• ES to guide work on translating perceptions to profiles • Nature perception profiles to complement criteria for
maintaining and planning of urban green spaces in cities
Ecosystem Services Framework
Policy-science: elucidates complexity and new meanings of tensions Policy-science-community: motives, urgency for action and blind-spots of policy
Why to co-produce knowledge? policy adaptive cycles have their own dynamics & windows for change not always in tune with science and community dynamics
New ways to co-produce knowledge --- videos – policy-science briefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYypZq1rW9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq1QtmmZTbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10RB-m4y58Y
Thank you! @NFrantzeskaki
Interested in finding out more? • Buchel, S., and Frantzeskaki, N., (2015), Citizens’ voice, ecosystem’s choice?,
Ecosystem Services, Article in Press. • Frantzeskaki, N., and Tilie, N., (2014), The dynamics of urban ecosystem governance in
Rotterdam, The Nehterlands, AMBIO, 43:542–555 (DOI 10.1007/s13280-014-0512-0) • Frantzeskaki, N., Wittmayer, J., and Loorbach, D., (2014), The role of partnerships in
'realizing' urban sustainability in Rotterdam's City Ports Area, the Netherlands, Journal of Cleaner Production, 65, 406-417. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.09.023)
• Nevens, F., Frantzeskaki, N., Loorbach, D., Gorissen, L., (2013), Urban Transition Labs: co-creating transformative action for sustainable cities, Journal of Cleaner Production, 50, 111-122.
• Haase, D., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., and Kaczowroska, A., (2014), Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes: Practical Applications and Governance Implications – the URBES approach, UGEC Viewpoint, No.10, March 2014, www.ugec.org
Lets keep transitioning! Contact me for questions, feedback and for collaborating for urban sustainability transitions: [email protected]
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Interested in transition initiatives in cities? Check our research project:
www.acceleratingtransitions.eu
Interested in greening initiatives in cities and what they mean for urban environmental governance:
theurbesproject.org
Our OPEN ACCESS special issue in AMBIO: http://link.springer.com/journal/13280/43/4?wt_mc=alerts.TO
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Interested in transition management? Check out our MUSIC project and the transition
mangement manual: http://www.drift.eur.nl/?p=2796
Rotterdam:Policy-Science Knowledge Co-Production In-person Interviews (2011-2012) (n=37), Transition Arenas (2013) (n=4)(p=20),
Focus Groups (2013-2014) (n=3) (p=15), Validation interviews (2014) (n=5)
Sustainability officers
Urban Planning officers
Ecology officers
Urban Agriculture Initiatives
Urban innovation
NGOs
Architecture consultants
Planning researchers
Environmental science and
policy researchers
Planners (implementation) Policy advisors Policy makers
People who make green infrastructure in the city (do-ers)
Ideas’ pollinators Science-policy brokers
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