Project description
Establishing multinature urbanism as a new research field
Amid rising environmental crises on a rapidly urbanised planet, it is vital to explore how to adopt a non-human-centred ethic in a human-dominated world. However, many current efforts are often too narrow or specialised. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the URBANRON project will apply the rights of nature to urban settings, establish multinature urbanism as a new research field, and conduct case studies in Mexico City and Amsterdam. This approach views nature as an active participant in decision-making, rather than a passive resource. Enhancing existing frameworks of urban environmental justice with more-than-human ecological justice, the project is designed to inspire innovative ways to create just and sustainable urban futures.
Objective
This project explores the application of the rights of nature to cities. At a moment in history, when mounting environmental crises face an increasingly urbanized planet, URBANRON asks how to apply a non-anthropocentric ethic to an anthropogenic world. Current efforts addressing this juxtaposition frequently remain too sectoral, disciplinary, or narrow. In this project, I develop multinature urbanism as a new research area that makes use of the multiplicities of concepts and rights of nature within cities. The resulting ‘rights of urban natures’ position nature not as a passive building material and design element but as an active stakeholder in decision-making processes. Rather than replacing current mechanisms of ‘urban environmental justice’, which focus on humans only, the rights of urban natures aim to augment them with more-than-human ‘ecological justice’. Eventually, URBANRON inspires novel ways to imagine, negotiate, and build more just and sustainable urban futures.
Five Work Packages (WPs) form the core of the Fellowship: Following the development of a theory on multinature urbanism (WP1), I conduct a comparative case study analysis of two exemplary urban rights of nature initiatives in Mexico City (Secondment) and Amsterdam (WP2). Building on the theoretical and empirical findings, in WP3, I develop actionable policy recommendations (at TU Delft and the OECD). Scientific, methodological, and professional training activities will enhance both core research and transferable skills to improve and strengthen my employability (WP4). A combination of academic discussions and high-impact publications, a policy brief, two stakeholder engagement workshops, the first-ever Conference on the Rights of Urban Natures, multiple guest lectures and media outreach, help to disseminate, exploit, and communicate the knowledge of URBANRON in both academic and policymaking communities, supporting the establishment of the rights of urban natures as an independent research area.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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