TY - JOUR

T1 - Assessing nature-based solutions for transformative change

AU - Palomo, Ignacio

AU - Locatelli, Bruno

AU - Otero, Iago

AU - Colloff, Matthew J.

AU - Crouzat, Emilie

AU - Cuni-Sanchez, Aida

AU - Gómez-Baggethun, Erik

AU - González-García, Alberto

AU - Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne

AU - Jiménez-Aceituno, Amanda

AU - Martín-López, Berta

AU - Pascual, Unai

AU - Zafra-Calvo, Noelia

AU - Bruley, Enora

AU - Fischborn, Marie

AU - Metz, Rosmarie

AU - Lavorel, Sandra

N1 - Funding Information: We thank the PANORAMA initiative and the solution providers for the data provided, as well as three anonymous reviewers for insightful comments on a previous version of this article. Funding was provided by the Mountain Research Initiative Synthesis Workshops – TRANSMOUNT project, the French National Research Agency’s Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir – Make Our Planet Great Again (grant no. ANR-19-MPGA-0009 ), and MtnPaths – Pathways for global change adaptation of mountain socio-ecological systems, Swiss National Science Foundation grant no. 20521L_169916 . Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Inc.

PY - 2021/5/21

Y1 - 2021/5/21

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - adaptation

KW - knowledge

KW - mountains

KW - nature's contributions to people

KW - nature-based solutions

KW - participation

KW - social-ecological system

KW - transformative adaptation

KW - transformative change

KW - values

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - Ecosystems Research

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7526b08a-c4eb-3803-8500-0cf014efb659/

U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.013

DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.04.013

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 4

SP - 730

EP - 741

JO - One Earth

JF - One Earth

SN - 2590-3330

IS - 5

ER -