Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change

Ignacio Palomo; Bruno Locatelli; Iago Otero; Matthew Colloff; Emilie Crouzat; Aida Cuni-Sanchez; Erik Gómez-Baggethun; Alberto González-García; Adrienne Grêt-Regamey; Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno; Berta Martín-López; Unai Pascual; Noelia Zafra-Calvo; Enora Bruley; Marie Fischborn; Rosmarie Metz; Sandra Lavorel

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.013

Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change

Ignacio Palomo^*, Bruno Locatelli, Iago Otero, Matthew Colloff, Emilie Crouzat, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Alberto González-García, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, Berta Martín-López, Unai Pascual, Noelia Zafra-Calvo, Enora Bruley, Marie Fischborn, Rosmarie Metz, Sandra Lavorel

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	730-741
Number of pages	12
Journal	One Earth
Volume	4
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.013
Publication status	Published - 21 May 2021

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Palomo, I., Locatelli, B., Otero, I., Colloff, M., Crouzat, E., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Gómez-Baggethun, E., González-García, A., Grêt-Regamey, A., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Martín-López, B., Pascual, U., Zafra-Calvo, N., Bruley, E., Fischborn, M., Metz, R., & Lavorel, S. (2021). Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change. One Earth, 4(5), 730-741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.013

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