Stakeholder Mapping to Co-Create Nature-Based Solutions: Who Is on Board?

Aude Zingraff-Hamed, Frank Hüesker, Gerd Lupp, Chloe Begg, Josh Huang, Amy Oen, Zoran Vojinovic, Christian Kuhlicke and Stephan Pauleit
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Aude Zingraff-Hamed: Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
Frank Hüesker: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Department Urban and Environmental Sociology, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Gerd Lupp: Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
Chloe Begg: Victorian Country Fire Authority, Bushfire Management, Melbourne 3149, Australia
Josh Huang: Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
Amy Oen: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, 0855 Oslo, Norway
Zoran Vojinovic: IHE Delft, Institute for Water Education, 2611 AX Delft, The Netherlands
Christian Kuhlicke: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Department Urban and Environmental Sociology, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Stephan Pauleit: Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 20, 1-23

Abstract: Nature-based solutions (NBS) are inspired and supported by nature but designed by humans. Historically, governmental stakeholders have aimed to control nature using a top-down approach; more recently, environmental governance has shifted to collaborative planning. Polycentric governance and co-creation procedures, which include a large spectrum of stakeholders, are assumed to be more effective in the management of public goods than traditional approaches. In this context, NBS projects should benefit from strong collaborative governance models, and the European Union is facilitating and encouraging such models. While some theoretical approaches exist, setting-up the NBS co-creation process (namely co-design and co-implementation) currently relies mostly on self-organized stakeholders rather than on strategic decisions. As such, systematic methods to identify relevant stakeholders seem to be crucial to enable higher planning efficiency, reduce bottlenecks and time needed for planning, designing, and implementing NBS. In this context, this contribution is based on the analysis of 16 NBS and 359 stakeholders. Real-life constellations are compared to theoretical typologies, and a systematic stakeholder mapping method to support co-creation is presented. Rather than making one-fit-all statements about the “right” stakeholders, the contribution provides insights for those “in charge” to strategically consider who might be involved at each stage of the NBS project.

Keywords: ecosystem-based; natural hazard mitigation; participative planning; co-design; polycentric governance; living labs; societal resilience; sustainable development goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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