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CO-producing Nature-based solutions and restored Ecosystems: transdisciplinary neXus for Urban Sustainability (CONEXUS)

Description:

The EU-funded CONEXUS project will co-produce, structure and promote access to contextualised knowledge by co-creating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to support the restoration of urban ecosystems. Cities and regions in Europe (EU) and the Community of Latin American & Caribbean States (CELAC) face shared and urgent global-local challenges to integrate practical actions with strategies to achieve greater inclusion, biodiversity, climate change adaptation and environmental quality. Many cities share problems of landscape fragmentation caused by rapid growth, urban sprawl and economic restructuring. Poorly planned urbanisation leaves a legacy of cities lacking the green areas needed for ecosystems to provide the services essential to human life. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have the potential to help reverse these trends, and our combined EU-CELAC palette of socio-cultural, ecological and governance contexts represents a huge opportunity to move forward - faster, together.

CONEXUS will co-produce, structure and promote access to the shared, contextualised knowledge needed to support cities and communities to co-create NBS, and to restore urban ecosystems, to help drive the required step-change in urban policy and practice in EU and CELAC countries. It adopts a planetary health perspective: healthy landscapes and ecosystems are vital to support human life, and humanity must restore, create and care for these landscapes and ecosystems in a reciprocal, ongoing and iterative relationship. This transdisciplinary project uses nature-based thinking (NBT) to bring together community, private, public and research partners to meet this challenge, and experiments with novel co-production methods to deliver NBS innovations in ‘Life-Lab’ pilots. The project’s core concept is to co-create context-appropriate NBS for ecosystems restoration and sustainable urbanisation in CELAC and EU cities, using a place-based approach (place-making, place-keeping and place-prescribing), solving problems together with citizens.

The CONEXUS cities are: in CELAC - São Paulo, Bogotá, Santiago and Buenos Aires; and in the EU - Lisbon, Barcelona and Turin.

Project information

Lead

THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (UK)

Partners
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET (SE)
OPPLA EEIG (NL)
ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH) (DE)
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA (CO)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE (IT)
CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE LISBOA (PT)
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS (PT)
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE (CH)
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN (DE)
UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO (BR)
CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS (CONICET) (AR)
UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES (AR)
EUROPEAN URBAN KNOWLEDGE NETWORK GROUPING OF TERRITORIAL COOPERATION (EUKN EGTC) (NL)
LIVING CITIES STOCKHOLM AB (SE)
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY (NL)
BARCELONA REGIONAL AGENCIA METROPOLITANA DE DESENVOLUPAMENT URBANISTICI D INFRASTRUCTURES SA (SP)
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION ECOLOGICA Y APLICACIONES FORESTALES (SP)
GOBIERNO DE LA CIUDAD DE BUENOS AIRES (AR)
THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (IT)
GRUPO VERDE LTDA (CO)
UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR (CH)
UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (SP)
INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE SRL (RO)
GOBIERNO REGIONAL METROPOLITANO DE SANTIAGO (CH)
MUNICIPALIDAD DE GENERAL SAN MARTIN (AR)
COMUNE DI TORINO (IT)
PERIFERIA TERRITORIOS VIVOS SAC (PE)
Ministerium für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE)
INSTITUTO CIDADES SUSTENTAVEIS (BR)
Source of funding

H2020-EU.3.5.4. H2020-EU.3.5.1. H2020-EU.3.5.2.

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Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 25 2021   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Mar 05 2024

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