Project description
Supporting nature-based solutions
One way to adapt to the impacts of climate change and slow further warming is to work with nature in its capacity to restore and protect ecosystems. Nature-based solutions (NBSs) is an umbrella term that covers different approaches, spanning ecosystem-based management, sustainable forest management and blue-green infrastructure. In this context, the EU-funded TRANS-lighthouses project will gather evidence on material and immaterial results of NBSs. This information will be useful for reframing the elements that compose the complexity of creating social and ecologically just NBSs. TRANS-lighthouses will adopt a non-linear perspective and open up space for the adoption of a fluid and organic position that will allow integration of the diversity of subjects, institutions, knowledge, practices and values.
Objective
TRANS-lighthouses aims to gather evidence on material and immaterial results of NBS in order to rethink and reframe the main elements that compose the complexity of creating social and ecologically just NBS. More than a driving process, the collaborative work on planning and making NBS functional might stimulate a more concerted response towards environmental and climate crises, increasing the commitment of different stakeholders and upscaling their own spheres of action. TRANS-lighthouses adopts a non-linear perspective and opens up space for the adoption of a fluid and organic position that is able to integrate the diversity of subjects, institutions, knowledge(s), practices and values. TRANS-lighthouses’ ambition is to become a European reference on socio-political challenges for supporting NBS projects and solutions. The socio-politics dimension will be part of the public agenda for NBS towards SYSTEMIC CHANGE. This ambition will be achieved by assessing the benefits and limitations of NBS co-creation that have already been implemented and designed, tested and disseminated economically and socially fairer guidelines for NBS implementation. For this purpose, the project will conduct a thorough assessment, grounded on a transdisciplinary approach and critical analysis. Constituting a well-oiled network of citizens, local governments, scientific institutions and civil society-based partners which acts across borders, disciplines and sectors, TRANS-lighthouses will lead research on activities aiming to implement socioeconomic and political changes capable of enabling pathways for a socially and ecologically just implementation of NBS. TRANS-lighthouses integrates a network of NBS lighthouses for urban, rural, coastal and forested areas in 10 EU countries and 6 non-EU.
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3000 995 Coimbra
Portugal
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4000 Roskilde
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80333 Muenchen
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2121 Nicosia
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75794 Paris
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44000 Nantes
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77454 Marne-La-Vallee
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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00185 Roma
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06006 Badajoz
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9501 801 PONTA DELGADA S MIGUEL ACORES
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151 25 Maroussi
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28001 Madrid
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4750-323 Barcelos
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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621 58 Visby
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38010 Denno
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9500-450 Ponta Delgada
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3864 001 Estarreja
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10 Santiago
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1053 Buenos Aires
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70842-970 Brasília
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01002-900 São Paulo
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400088 Mumbai
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61801 Urbana
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- DAR ES SALAAM
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00100 Nairobi
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84030-900 Ponta Grossa
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