Challenging Nature-Based Solutions as a Panacea for Environmental Change
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/27/2022
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:20 PM
Theme: Climate Justice
Sponsor Group(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
, Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Jean Carlo Rodriguez
, Audrey Joslin
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Chairs(s):
Audrey Joslin, Kansas State University
; Jean Carlo Rodriguez, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik - DIE
Description:
‘Nature-Based Solutions’ (NBS) are defined as actions introduced specifically to promote nature as a means to address climate mitigation and adaptation challenges while simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits (Cohen-Schacham et al., 2016; IUCN, 2012). NBS projects frequently include, among others, ecosystem restoration, ecosystem-based mitigation, ecosystem-based adaptation, disaster risk reduction, green infrastructure, and protected areas. As NBS receive increasing attention from global environmental and development organizations worldwide, optimistic predictions suggest that NBS projects could provide up to 37 percent of the emission reductions needed by 2030 to keep global temperature increases under 2 degrees (TNC, 2017). Yet, the focus on ‘solutions’ may hinder consideration of the transformational capacities of NBS, the socio-ecological complexity that their implementation might encounter or reinforce, and the potential environmental contradictions they may generate in the contexts in which they are implemented (Kotsila, 2020).
This paper session includes contributions that work across ecosystems (e.g. forests, grasslands, coastal areas) and scales focusing on specific NBS. Papers may explore:
· Governance of NBS
· Environmental and socioeconomic conflicts related to NBS
· Unexpected outcomes of NBS
· Indigenous people and local communities and NBS
· NBS and the wider political economy
· Environmental justice and NBS
References
Cohen-Shacham, E., Walters, G., Janzen, C., Maginnis, S., 2016. Nature-based Solutions to address global societal challenges. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
IUCN, 2012. The IUCN Programme 2013–2016. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
Kotsila, P. 2020. Are Nature-based solutions an answer to unsustainable cities or a tool for furthering nature’s neoliberalisation? Green Inequalities, Undisciplined Environments. BCNUEJ, Barcelona.
TNC, 2017. Nature’s make or break potential for climate change. https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/natures-make-or-break-potential-for-climate-change/ Accessed: 01.10.19
Presentation(s), if applicable
Jean Carlo Rodriguez De Francisco, ; Grassroots perspectives on Nature-based solutions and environmental justice |
Audrey Joslin, Kansas State University; Perceptions of Landscape Transformations and the Conservation Reserve Program in the Southern U.S. Plains |
Audrey Irvine-Broque, University of British Columbia; The Mangrove Fix: The Making of a Nature-Based Solution |
Kathleen McAfee, San Francisco State University; Nature-Based Solutions: New Hope for Nature or New Cover for Colonialism? |
Foley Pfalzgraf, ; Carbon Trapping or Carbon Trapped? REDD+ and Fixing the Forest in Vanuatu |
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Challenging Nature-Based Solutions as a Panacea for Environmental Change
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Audrey Joslin - ajoslin@ksu.edu
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