TY - JOUR
T1 - How ‘just’ is hybrid governance of urban nature-based solutions?
AU - Toxopeus, Helen
AU - Kotsila, Panagiota
AU - Conde, Marta
AU - Katona, Attila
AU - van der Jagt, Alexander P. N.
AU - Polzin, Friedemann
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable reflections and detailed comments, which helped us to improve the quality of this paper. We thank the participants and organizers of the SI workshop in Barcelona for their valuable input on an earlier version of the paper, in particular Marion Ernwein, Natasha Cornea, Filka Sekulova and Isabelle Anguelovski. We thank Chris Martin, Harriet Bulkeley, Janice Astbury and Andrés Luque for their field research for the Mexico City and Newcastle case studies. This research has been funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 730243 and participating partners in the NATURVATION project .
Funding Information:
We thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable reflections and detailed comments, which helped us to improve the quality of this paper. We thank the participants and organizers of the SI workshop in Barcelona for their valuable input on an earlier version of the paper, in particular Marion Ernwein, Natasha Cornea, Filka Sekulova and Isabelle Anguelovski. We thank Chris Martin, Harriet Bulkeley, Janice Astbury and Andr?s Luque for their field research for the Mexico City and Newcastle case studies. This research has been funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 730243 and participating partners in the NATURVATION project.
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PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - Hybrid (or multi-actor) governance has been identified as a key opportunity for upscaling urban nature-based solutions (referred to as urban NBS), representing a demand-driven and cost-effective realization of urban green infrastructure. However it is unclear how such hybrid governance affects the justice outcomes of urban NBS. Through six in-depth cases of urban NBS we show that hybrid governance can lead to both improvements and deterioration of distributional, procedural and recognition justice, depending on the hybrid governance choices. By exploring the tensions between these justice impacts we formulate three main policy implications for hybrid governance settings: the need for transparent decision-making on the distribution of costs and benefits; safeguarding public control over the urban NBS and the use of scientific expertise in combination with bottom-up consultation procedures to recognize both current and future voices.
AB - Hybrid (or multi-actor) governance has been identified as a key opportunity for upscaling urban nature-based solutions (referred to as urban NBS), representing a demand-driven and cost-effective realization of urban green infrastructure. However it is unclear how such hybrid governance affects the justice outcomes of urban NBS. Through six in-depth cases of urban NBS we show that hybrid governance can lead to both improvements and deterioration of distributional, procedural and recognition justice, depending on the hybrid governance choices. By exploring the tensions between these justice impacts we formulate three main policy implications for hybrid governance settings: the need for transparent decision-making on the distribution of costs and benefits; safeguarding public control over the urban NBS and the use of scientific expertise in combination with bottom-up consultation procedures to recognize both current and future voices.
KW - Environmental justice
KW - Hybrid governance
KW - Public-private partnerships
KW - Urban greening
KW - Urban nature-based solutions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088652021&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102839
DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102839
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088652021
VL - 105
JO - Cities
JF - Cities
SN - 0264-2751
M1 - 102839
ER -
