Inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge is critical for nature- based solutions to contribute to just urban transformations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Frantzeskaki, Niki; Wijsman, Katinka; Kabisch, Nadja; McPhearson, Timon
• 署名单位: Utrecht University; Leibniz University Hannover; The New School; Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Stockholm University; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
• 刊物名称: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0027-12883
• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2315911121
• 发表日期: 2025-07-22
• 关键词: justice

摘要

Nature- based solutions (NBS) are used to transform existing unsustainable and undesirable path dependencies in cities. For NBS to contribute to just urban transformations, a stronger inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge base is needed. This knowledge base is essential to engage with six complex yet crucial questions about NBS, including for what?, which nature?, where?, how?, when, and for whom?. To address these questions, we identify two critical opportunities to advance the knowledge of NBS. First, we argue for solidifying interdisciplinary approaches to examine how NBS can be designed, planned, and implemented for multifunctionality. Second, we argue that researchers need to work transdisciplinarily with diverse stakeholders to ensure the design, siting, and planning of NBS are appropriate to the context. In both critical opportunities, justice should be a core guiding principle from the beginning of planning the NBS, starting with the just or unjust. Instead, their value depends on a holistic examination of the context in which they operate and the institutional logic that guides their planning. To center justice in the inter- and transdisciplinary research and practice of NBS, a knowledge shift from epistemological forward.