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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

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)
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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

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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Can you Standardize Transformation? Reflections on the Transformative Potential of Benchmarking as a Mode of Governance (2023)
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The Global Biodiversity Framework Needs a Robust Action Agenda (2022)
Journal Article

Estimating the social value of nature-based solutions in European cities (2022)
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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.

Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature (2022)
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Transcending initial efforts to make cities ‘climate smart’ by focusing on the potential of new technologies and infrastructural interventions, various actors are increasingly interested in deploying nature to help achieve urban resilience. In this c... Read More about Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature.

Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides (2022)
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Traditional interventions to “bring nature into the city” were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always b... Read More about Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides.

Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe (2022)
Journal Article

The notion that pathways can be identified and followed towards more sustainable futures has become an increasingly prevalent idea across the science and policy of global environmental change. Focusing on the debate within literatures on socio-techni... Read More about Catalyzing sustainability pathways: Navigating urban nature based solutions in Europe.

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change (2022)
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Multiple visions for how urbanism can respond to the climate crisis and foster sustainability have emerged on the international agenda, including the ecocity, low-carbon city, smart city, and resilient city. These competing visions have been joined b... Read More about Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change.

Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity (2022)
Journal Article

Sustainable innovation has been widely acknowledged as the key driver for societal transitions towards sustainability. Recently, there have been widespread calls to mainstream nature-based solutions (NBS), a form of socio-ecological-technical innovat... Read More about Mainstreaming sustainable innovation: unlocking the potential of nature-based solutions for climate change and biodiversity.

Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
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rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, facilitatin... Read More about Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets.

Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City (2021)
Journal Article

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one that is increasingly understood as transnational, personal, urban... Read More about Climate Changed Urban Futures: Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene City.

Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden (2020)
Journal Article

The question of how the urgent transformation in fossil fuel based economies might be realised has come to occupy an increasingly prominent place within the social sciences. The challenge here is often cast in terms of how one or more existing system... Read More about Climate Smart City: New Cultural Political Economies in the Making in Malmö, Sweden.

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance (2020)
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In this paper, we examine how cities are working with nature-based solutions for biodiversity. Drawing on a sample of 199 nature-based solutions across Europe, we identify how cities work with nature-based solutions to conserve nature, restore nature... Read More about Nature-based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity Governance.

Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings (2019)
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This paper expands the toolkit available to consider the effectiveness of urban climate responses by examining political effectiveness in the implementation of urban decarbonization initiatives. By focusing on the politics of implementation, this app... Read More about Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings.