@article{e9234322245d481198716bf7ed96a6d5,
title = "Unearthing time-honored examples of nature-based solutions",
author = "{La Rosa}, Daniele and Stephan Pauleit and Xiang, {Wei Ning}",
note = "Funding Information: Nature-based solutions are human actions and social processes through which people from all walks of life work together to build and/or renovate nature-inspired, ecosystem-based green infrastructures (GIs) that help address the environmental, social, and economic challenges they face and meet their needs for survival, development, and flourishing (EC ; IUCN ). Among all NBS enthusiasms in the past decade, the most prominent is indisputably a batch of high-profile NBS demonstration projects in selected cities and regions, primarily in Europe (EC , , , , ). These projects are funded by the European Commission through the “nature-based solutions and re-naturing cities” initiative in its Horizon 2020 program (EC , pp.5–6; EC ; EC , ), aiming inter alia “to provide best-practice examples that can be replicated globally.” [Cohen-Shacham et al. , p.20; EC , p.29, p.31, p.35; O{\textquoteright}Sullivan et al. , p.1 (the quote)] These anticipated best NBS practice examples, according to the European Commission (, p.24; , p.28), would showcase effective NBS projects that possess a set of “key features” (EC , p.28; see Table ). Funding Information: The original idea of this guest editorial emerged at the 11thInternational Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT2020), held September 8-12, 2021, at the University of Catania, Italy. The conference was organized by LAPTA, a research laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Among the main inspirations were the central theme of the conference, “Integrating NBS into urban and regional planning processes and science”, the two keynote speeches (Pauleit 2021 ; Xiang 2021b), and in-depth discussions at the question and answer sessions.",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s42532-021-00099-y",
language = "English",
volume = "3",
pages = "329--335",
journal = "Socio-Ecological Practice Research",
issn = "2524-5279",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "4",
}