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| Titel |
Putting urban soils in the spotlight: A learning experience through the Climate-KIC's initiative |
| VerfasserIn |
Ana Maymó, Eugenia Gimeno-García, Juan Antonio Pascual-Aguilar, Vicente Andreu, José Luis Rubio |
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EGU General Assembly 2015
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 17 (2015) |
| Datensatznummer |
250108984
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2015-8829.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The European Commission encourages integrating ecosystem-based approaches in the
portfolio of adaptation strategies also in the urban areas. However, the renewed interest in the
environmental benefits from green infrastructures coexists with the marginality with which
they are treated in practice and, especially, where soil is concerned. Despite its critical
functions, soils in cities have often been neglected. In fact, urban soil issues rarely get
society attention or even from our policy makers. But, how to make urban soils
visible?.
From academia we need to extend our communication and networking abilities to engage
citizens with projects related to urban soils. Through the Climate-KIC’s professional
placement programme, Pioneers into Practice, we were able to connect with stakeholders
with widely different interests, and engage a broad range of opinions and comments on local
circumstances and needs in a semi-quantitative form.
Methodology included an actor analysis, an actor network map and a set of
semi-structured actor interviews. This involved a local stakeholder network establishment.
This stakeholder network reaches out beyond the usual suspects we would expect to partner
and it is represented by the following groups: local administration, local governmental
services (e.g., forestry and agriculture extension), relevant non-governmental organizations
(e.g., dedicated to environment or development) at local level, planners, developers, and
individuals (e.g., long-term local residents).
The approach is focused on the non-technical barriers to success, whether they are social,
institutional, financial, behavioral or regulatory, and how to overcome them. In this context,
of a raising environmental awareness, the principal response from interviews demonstrated
strong support for a strategic approach to soil management at the urban core and
the countryside fringe. Herein, the contribution of urban soils to the provision of
ecosystem services, in the framework of the Payments for Ecosystem Services
(PES), aroused a great deal of interest among the different stakeholders interviewed.
However, the low level of community awareness and understanding of threats to
soil natural capital and the long-term consequences of this were also recognized. |
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