Urban transitions towards Nature-based Solutions

Nature-Based Solutions Accelerating Urban Sustainability Transitions in Cities: Lessons from Dresden, Genk and Stockholm Cities

Nature based solutions are amongst other practices that transition initiatives work with when intervening in their place and change its fabric. Focusing on the actors establishing, driving and scaling these solutions in and across cities, we come to evince that nature-based solutions have transformative social impact since they mediate new social relations and new social configurations contribu...

Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas

Urban settlement transitions

Urban growth dynamics attracts the efforts of scientists from many different disciplines with objectives ranging from theoretical understanding to the development of carefully tuned realistic models that can serve as planning and policy tools. Theoretical models are often abstract and of limited applied value while most applied models yield little theoretical understanding. Here we present a ma...

Nature that Breeds Solutions

For at least half a century now, the field of natural computing has grown in popularity. This popularity is largely driven by the successful use of nature-inspired approaches, such as evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural networks, swarm intelligence algorithms, artificial immune systems and many others, in solving various problems. These techniques have proven their important role on many...

Urban community-based services in China: tensions in the transitions

Instead of claiming responsibility in caring for its citizens from cradle to grave, China now emphasizes ‘small government and big society’ in its allocation of social services. In one southwest province of China, as a result of the urban Community Residents Committee (CRC) Organization Acts of 1989, the CRC has become the core of social services in this region and is on the front line of socia...