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Abstract

People-environment interactions within nature-based solutions (NBS) are not always understood. This has implications for communicating the benefits of NBS and for how we plan cities. We present a framework that highlights a duality in NBS. The NBS as an asset includes both natural capital and human-centred capital, including organisational structures. NBS also exist as a system within which people are able to interact. Temporal and spatial scales moderate the benefits that NBS provide, which in turn are dependent on the scale at which social processes operate. Co-production and equity are central to the interactions among people and institutions in the design, use and management of NBS, and this requires clear communication. Drawing on ideas from culture-based development (CBD), we suggest an approach to communicate the benefits of NBS in a neutral but effective way. We propose guidelines for planning NBS that allow the optimisation of NBS locations and designs for particular outcomes.

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Title
Re-Thinking People and Nature Interactions in Urban Nature-Based Solutions
Author
Jones, Laurence 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Anderson, Sally 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Læssøe, Jeppe 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Banzhaf, Ellen 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jensen, Anne 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tubadji, Annie 6 ; Hutchins, Michael 7 ; Yang, Jun 8 ; Taylor, Tim 9   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Wheeler, Benedict W 9   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Fletcher, David 10   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tenbrink, Thora 11   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Wilcox-Jones, Liz 12 ; Iversen, Signe 13 ; Sang, Åsa 14 ; Lin, Tao 15   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Xu, Yaoyang 16 ; Lu, Lingwen 17 ; Levin, Gregor 18   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zandersen, Marianne 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK; Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 9JD, UK 
 Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark 
 Jeplae Consulting and Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark 
 UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Urban and Environmental Sociology, Permoserstr. 15, D-04318 Leipzig, Germany 
 Department of Environmental Science & Aarhus University Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change (iCLIMATE), Aarhus University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark 
 Economics Department, Singleton Campus, Swansea University, Swansea SA1 8EN, UK 
 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK 
 Department of Earth System Science, Institute for Global Change Studies, Ministry of Education Ecological Field Station for East Asian Migratory Birds, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 
 European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital, University of Exeter Medical School, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3HD, UK 
10  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK 
11  School of Arts, Culture and Language, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2DG, UK 
12  Denbighshire County Council, P.O. Box 62, Ruthin LL15 9AZ, UK 
13  Aarhus Kommune, Rådhuset, Rådhuspladsen 2, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark 
14  Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, SLU—Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Almas Allé 8, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden 
15  Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; Xiamen Key Laboratory of Smart Management on the Urban Environment, Xiamen 361021, China 
16  Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1799 Jimei Ave., Xiamen 361021, China 
17  Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1799 Jimei Ave., Xiamen 361021, China; School of Geographical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo 315100, China 
18  Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark 
First page
3043
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20711050
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3188882520
Copyright
© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.