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Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities (2024)
Journal Article
Rochell, K., Bulkeley, H., & Runhaar, H. (2024). Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities. Local Environment, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2353047

Nature – based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being positioned within global discourses concerning how urban sustainability challenges can be addressed. To better understand to what extent, how, by whom and with what potential implications NBS are... Read More about Different shades of green: how transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities.

Nature for resilience reconfigured: global-to-local translation of frames in Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Rochell, K., Bulkeley, H., & Runhaar, H. (2024). Nature for resilience reconfigured: global-to-local translation of frames in Africa. Buildings and Cities, 5(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.379

Globally, various frames of urban nature circulate, each emphasising particular challenges and natural solutions in the climate context. Yet which actors and dynamics shape their translation to the African context remains unclear. This paper explores... Read More about Nature for resilience reconfigured: global-to-local translation of frames in Africa.

Double dividend? Transnational initiatives and governance innovation for climate change and biodiversity (2023)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Betsill, M., Fransen, A., & VanDeveer, S. (2023). Double dividend? Transnational initiatives and governance innovation for climate change and biodiversity. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 39(4), 796-809. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grad046

Growing recognition of the need to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together is leading to shifts in the global environmental governance landscape such that these two traditionally separate domains are increasingly interlinked. This proces... Read More about Double dividend? Transnational initiatives and governance innovation for climate change and biodiversity.

Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions? (2023)
Journal Article
Papari, C., Toxopeus, H., Polzin, F., Bulkeley, H., & Menguzzo, E. V. (2024). Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions?. Environmental Science and Policy, 151, Article 103598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103598

We analyze the potential of the European Union (EU) Taxonomy (ET) for Sustainable Activities to mobilize investments for the sustainability transition toward urban nature-based solutions (UNBS). We map the current investment landscape of UNBS in Euro... Read More about Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions?.

Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Fransen, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective. Global Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00726

Transnational governance initiatives (TGIs) are increasingly recognized as central actors in the governing of climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, their role in linking these domains has yet to be explored. As the climate crisis comes to be inc... Read More about Transnational Governing at the Climate-Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective.

Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme (2023)
Journal Article
Kavonic, J., & Bulkeley, H. (2023). Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme. Local Environment, 28(7), 900-917. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2190349

Over the past five years, there have been growing calls for transformative responses to sustainability challenges, supported by increased transformative action in the pursuit of environmental justice. In parallel to this development within the policy... Read More about Generating Transformative Capacity: ICLEI Africa’s Urban Natural Assets for Africa programme.

The condition of urban climate experimentation (2023)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2023). The condition of urban climate experimentation. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19(1), Article 2188726. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2023.2188726

As the trend of urban climate experimentation continues, many accounts now seek to identify how it can be harnessed towards responses of sufficient scale and magnitude for the crises at hand. The imperative is to move beyond experimentation. Yet some... Read More about The condition of urban climate experimentation.

Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities (2022)
Journal Article
Bockarjova, M., Botzen, W. W., Bulkeley, H. A., & Toxopeus, H. (2022). Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities. Scientific Reports, 12(2022), Article 19833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23983-3

By implementing nature-based solutions (NBS), cities generate value for their residents, such as health and wellbeing. We estimate the aggregate social value to urban residents of 85 NBS projects implemented across Europe and find that the majority y... Read More about Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities.