TY - JOUR

T1 - Planning and governing nature-based solutions in river landscapes: Concepts, cases, and insights

AU - Albert, Christian

AU - Hack, Jochen

AU - Schmidt, Stefan

AU - Schröter, Barbara

N1 - Funding information: We thank all contributing authors of the Special Issue for submitting their work, and the anonymous reviewers for their critical and constructive feedback. We thank Thea Kelly for assistance in preparing this editorial. As guest editors, we acknowledge the funding that has made the editing of this Special Issue possible: Christian Albert, Barbara Schröter, and Stefan Schmidt received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF, Grant ID: 01UU1601A and B) and Jochen Hack from the same institution (Grant ID: 01UU1704). Finally, we thank Ambio for the kind opportunity to publish in this outlet, and the Editor-in-Chief, Bo Söderström, for the continuous support and the kind collaboration.

PY - 2021/8

Y1 - 2021/8

N2 - Nature-based solutions (NBS), understood as actions that use ecosystem processes to address societal needs, can play important roles to future-proof river landscape development for people and nature. However, knowledge gaps exist how NBS can be planned and implemented at landscape scales. This Special Issue brings together insights and experiences from studies of assessing, planning, and implementing NBS in river landscapes in Europe and beyond. It addresses three research fields: (i) NBS effects, looking at the effectiveness of NBS to achieve ecological, social, and/or economic outcomes, (ii) NBS planning, focusing on approaches for planning and designing NBS, and (iii) NBS governance, relating to governance and business models for implementation. The twelve contributions deliver evidence on how NBS outperform conventional, rather technical solutions, provide guidance and tools to operationalize the NBS concept into practice, and showcase successful governance models of NBS in different contexts. The editorial ends with an outlook on further research needs.

AB - Nature-based solutions (NBS), understood as actions that use ecosystem processes to address societal needs, can play important roles to future-proof river landscape development for people and nature. However, knowledge gaps exist how NBS can be planned and implemented at landscape scales. This Special Issue brings together insights and experiences from studies of assessing, planning, and implementing NBS in river landscapes in Europe and beyond. It addresses three research fields: (i) NBS effects, looking at the effectiveness of NBS to achieve ecological, social, and/or economic outcomes, (ii) NBS planning, focusing on approaches for planning and designing NBS, and (iii) NBS governance, relating to governance and business models for implementation. The twelve contributions deliver evidence on how NBS outperform conventional, rather technical solutions, provide guidance and tools to operationalize the NBS concept into practice, and showcase successful governance models of NBS in different contexts. The editorial ends with an outlook on further research needs.

KW - Effects

KW - Governance

KW - Green infrastructure

KW - Landscape planning

KW - Social–ecological research

KW - Spatial planning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107720130&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s13280-021-01569-z

DO - 10.1007/s13280-021-01569-z

M3 - Article

VL - 50

SP - 1405

EP - 1413

JO - Ambio

JF - Ambio

SN - 0044-7447

IS - 8

ER -