Nature-based Solutions for Cities

Edited by Timon McPhearson, Nadja Kabisch and Niki Frantzeskaki | Edward Elgar Publishing

Nature-based Solutions for Cities brings diverse perspectives from across the globe together to describe the state of the art in advancing nature-based solutions for cities. Our goal is to provide a handbook for graduate students, early career professionals, and emerging and advanced scholars to begin working with NBS in ways that consider multiple perspectives, disciplines, and ways of knowing. Together, the chapters in this book aim at understanding how NBS can be better managed, planned, and engaged with, and to center questions of NBS for whom and for what? Through chapters led by experts in both global south and north contexts, we describe key knowledge and learning for advancing the interdisciplinary science of NBS in, for and with cities and discuss the frontiers for next-generation NBS. Our book is organized in five main parts framed by an Introduction and a Synthesis.

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“This new book presents valuable experiences and applications of the concept of nature-based solutions from across the globe with a unique view and excellent inter- and transdisciplinary expertise”

— Dr. Dagmar Haase, Professor of Landscape Ecology, Humboldt University

“An exciting and timely must-have handbook that should be on the shelf of every urban practitioner to help make cities more livable and the planet more sustainable. ”

— Karen C. Seto, Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale University

Introduction

Foreword I

Dagmar Haase

Foreword II

Karen C. Seto

1. Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Cities

Timon McPhearson, Nadja Kabisch, and Niki Frantzeskaki

PART I: NBS for What and for Whom?

2. Nature-Based Solutions and Climate Change Resilience

Nancy B. Grimm, Yeowon Kim, Jason R. Sauer, Stephen R. Elser

3. Towards Just Nature-Based Solutions for Cities

Laura M. Tozer, Harini Nagendra, Pippin Anderson, Jessica Kavonic

PART II: The Nature of NBS

4. Urban ecological resilience: Ensuring urban ecosystems can provide nature-based solutions

Timon McPhearson, Erik Andersson, Filipa Grilo, Bianca Lopez, Nour Zein

5. Nature-based solutions and biodiversity: Synergies, trade-offs, and ways forward

Sonja Knapp, J. Scott MacIvor

PART III: The Multiple Benefits of NBS

6. Just, Nature-based Solutions as Critical Urban Infrastructure for Cooling and Cleaning Airsheds

Paul Coseo and Zoe Hamstead

7. Nature-Based Solutions as Critical Urban Infrastructure for Water Resilience

Lauren McPhillips, Hong Wu, Carolina Rojas, Bernice Rosenzweig, Jason Sauer, Brandon Winfrey

8. Human Physical Health Outcomes Influenced by Contact with Nature

Lilah Besser and Gina S. Lovasi

9. Nature-based Solutions and Mental Health

Nadja Kabisch, Gregory Bratman, Matilda van den Bosch, Sukanya Basu, Oskar Masztalerz

PART IV: NBS Governance, Planning and Value

10. Planning and maintaining NBS: Lessons for foresight and sustainable care from Berlin, Jakarta, Melbourne and Santiago de Chile

Rieke Hansen, Judy Bush, Didit Okta Pribadi, Emanuel Giannotti

11. Governance of and with Nature-Based Solutions in Cities

Niki Frantzeskaki, Katinka Wijsman, Clare Adams, Nadja Kabisch, Shirin Malekpour, Melissa Pineda Pinto, Paula Vandergert

12. Mapping, Measuring, and Valuing the Benefits of Nature-Based Solutions in Cities

Anne D. Guerry, Eric Lonsdorf, Chris Nootenboom, Roy Remme, Rob Griffin, Hillary Waters, Stephen Polasky, Baolong Han, Tong Wu, Ben Janke, Megan Meacham, Perrine Hamel, and Xueman Wang