Connecting Nature Framework: learnings from longitudinal application of co-production and reflexive monitoring as transdisciplinary approaches to implementation of nature-based solutions

Siobhán McQuaid and Marcus Collier

Chapter 10 in How to Organise Transdisciplinary Research for Transformative Action and Knowledge Co-Production, 2026, pp 152-168 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Connecting Nature was a €12 million European research project which aimed to support cities with the large-scale implementation of nature-based solutions (NbS) to address societal challenges. Coordinated by a transdisciplinary research team from the Centre for Social Innovation and the School of Natural Sciences in Trinity College Dublin, Connecting Nature involved more than 30 partners from 14 countries. The consortium brought together researchers from different disciplines alongside local government organisations, practitioners and non-governmental organisations. Together, this consortium deployed co-production and reflexive monitoring methodologies as key tools for transdisciplinary research. Over the five-year project duration, partners co-created, piloted and replicated the Connecting Nature Framework leading to large-scale, enduring and embedded approaches to NbS implementation in an urban context.

Keywords: Co-production; Reflexive Monitoring; Transdisciplinary Research; Nature-Based Solutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035346547
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