Connecting Nature Deliverable 1: Report on contributions to tasks 1.1 to 1.4

Co-creation and co-production of knowledge with relevant city actors are at the core of Connecting Nature activities and the development of a reference framework for impact evaluation also applied co-creation principles to the design of an iterative process between scientists and practitioners in cities. The aim of this deliverable is to summarize the outcomes of this comprehensive scoping and co-production exercise, focusing on the development of the first set of indicators to be applied and tested in the monitoring and assessment of nature-based exemplars in the frontrunner cities of Genk, Glasgow and Poznan, carried out under tasks 1.1 to 1.4 in work-package 1 (“Assessment, evidence, and evaluation”): Task 1.1: synthesizes and evaluates lessons learned in nature-based solutions experiments, mapping and constructing a database on successful and failed NBS projects developed in the European context. Task 1.2 maps the innovative and transformative emerging experiments for nature-based solutions, through an expert-driven assessment. Task 1.3 focuses on the development of a robust, short, and easy-to-apply set of indicators for impact evaluation, through the critical review of existing scientific evidence and indicators, the setting up of an iterative co-production process, which allows us to connect indicators to the frontrunner cities ́ singularities. Task 1.4 focuses on assessing the organizational structure of city councils, mapping those factors that either hinder or foster innovative urban NBS. Furthermore, this document will report progress in the construction of the indicators set so far, presenting the process and primary outcomes in the construction of a new reference framework to assess and monitoring of NBS.
Dumitru, A., Lenoir Improta, R., Albulesca, P., Collier, M.J., Connop, S., Dick, G., Dushkova, D., Frantzeskaki, N., Haase, D., Lodder, M., Nash, C., Macsings, I., Martin, G., Mowat, L., McQuaid, S., Rhodes, M-L., Sillen, D., and Sulea, C. (2018). Connecting Nature Deliverable 1: Report on contributions to tasks 1.1 to 1.4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7010765