TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change
AU - Palomo, Ignacio
AU - Locatelli, Bruno
AU - Otero, Iago
AU - Colloff, Matthew J.
AU - Crouzat, Emilie
AU - Cuni-Sanchez, Aida
AU - Gómez-Baggethun, Erik
AU - González-García, Alberto
AU - Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne
AU - Jiménez-Aceituno, Amanda
AU - Martín-López, Berta
AU - Pascual, Unai
AU - Zafra-Calvo, Noelia
AU - Bruley, Enora
AU - Fischborn, Marie
AU - Metz, Rosmarie
AU - Lavorel, Sandra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/5/21
Y1 - 2021/5/21
N2 - Global sustainability targets demand transformative changes. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining traction in science and policy, but their potential for transformative change remains unexplored. We provide a framework to evaluate how NbS contribute to transformative change and apply it to 93 NbS from mountain social-ecological systems (SES). The framework serves to assess what elements may catalyze transformative change, how transformative change occurs, and what its outcomes are. Our results show that NbS are as much “people based” as “nature based.” Most NbS are based on four elements with transformation potential: nature's values, knowledge types, community engagement, and nature management practices. Our results confirm the potential of NbS for transformative change, observed through changes in non-sustainable trajectories of SES. We illustrate the components of our framework through a novel classification of NbS. The framework provides key components for assessing the effectiveness of NbS and allows tracking long-term transformative change processes.
AB - Global sustainability targets demand transformative changes. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining traction in science and policy, but their potential for transformative change remains unexplored. We provide a framework to evaluate how NbS contribute to transformative change and apply it to 93 NbS from mountain social-ecological systems (SES). The framework serves to assess what elements may catalyze transformative change, how transformative change occurs, and what its outcomes are. Our results show that NbS are as much “people based” as “nature based.” Most NbS are based on four elements with transformation potential: nature's values, knowledge types, community engagement, and nature management practices. Our results confirm the potential of NbS for transformative change, observed through changes in non-sustainable trajectories of SES. We illustrate the components of our framework through a novel classification of NbS. The framework provides key components for assessing the effectiveness of NbS and allows tracking long-term transformative change processes.
KW - adaptation
KW - knowledge
KW - mountains
KW - nature's contributions to people
KW - nature-based solutions
KW - participation
KW - social-ecological system
KW - transformative adaptation
KW - transformative change
KW - values
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Ecosystems Research
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85106934044
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7526b08a-c4eb-3803-8500-0cf014efb659/
U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.013
DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.013
M3 - Journal articles
SN - 2590-3330
VL - 4
SP - 730
EP - 741
JO - One Earth
JF - One Earth
IS - 5
ER -