Policy Instruments to Encourage the Adoption of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Landscapes

Rita Mendonça, Peter Roebeling, Teresa Fidélis and Miguel Saraiva
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Rita Mendonça: CESAM & Department of Environment & Planning, Aveiro University (DAO-UA), 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Peter Roebeling: CESAM & Department of Environment & Planning, Aveiro University (DAO-UA), 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Teresa Fidélis: GOVCOPP, Department of Environment & Planning, Aveiro University (DAO-UA), 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Miguel Saraiva: CEGOT–Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning, of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal

Resources, 2021, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: Urban landscapes are under great pressure and particularly vulnerable, due to climate change, population growth and economic development. Despite the growing understanding that Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) represent efficient solutions to facilitate adaptation to climate change and increase cities’ resilience, their wide-scale adoption is still limited. There is a need to include NBS in urban governance and planning agendas through policy instruments, such as plan/legislative, economic and information instruments. However, there is a lack of studies that assess such policy instruments and, through the use of specific examples, how they can foster NBS adoption. The objective of this study is to address this gap by conducting a systematic literature review, using a bibliometric and a content analysis, collating and reviewing papers that consider policy instruments and NBS in order to: (i) assess the existence of policy instruments that influence the adoption of NBS; and (ii) evaluate the existence of specific examples of policy instruments. Results show that plan/legislative instruments are most mentioned, followed by economic and information instruments. However, examples of specific policy instruments being used in practice are still scarce in literature, as most studies remain theoretical.

Keywords: Nature-Based Solutions; economic instruments; information instruments; planning instruments; urban policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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