Environmental Justice and Nature-Based Solutions

  • Environmental Justice and Nature-Based Solutions

    ​What role does environmental justice play in your daily work? AND What key aspects do you think need to be considered for the planning of low carbon and just cities?

  • As part of the EU HORIZON project, JUSTNature, we are conducting a survey to understand how urban planners and practitioners address these questions. We specifically want to understand the importance you attribute to environmental justice when implementing low carbon and high air quality nature-based solutions (NbS)*. As part of the survey, we will test some of our concepts and assumptions about different justice components (e.g., air quality injustice, thermal injustices, carbon injustices, spatial injustices, flora, fauna, and habitat inclusive, temporal injustices) in NbS. There are no right or wrong answers. All input is important.

  • The survey should take approximately 20 minutes. Your responses are completely anonymous and the data we collect will be used only for this research. By completing this survey you consent to the use of your data for these purposes.

  • If you want to learn more about the JUSTNature project, including our objective and recent work, please visit our project website https://justnatureproject.eu/. If you want to be informed about the results of this survey and receive other news from the project send an email to Tannya Pico at pico@isocarp-institute.org.

  • *Nature based solutions (NbS): Actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”. They are just one of a range of concepts used to frame nature’s contributions to people (NCP). Others refer to ecosystem-based adaptation, green infrastructure or ecosystem services.

  • Sources: ​​ Cohen-Shacham, E., Walters, G., Janzen, C., & Maginnis, S. (2016). Nature-based Solutions to address global societal challenges. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. ​​Díaz, S., Pascual, U., Stenseke, M., Martín-López, B., Watson, R. T., Molnár, Z., ... & Shirayama, Y. (2018). Assessing nature's contributions to people. Science, 359(6373), 270-272.  ​​ Pauleit, S., Zölch, T., Hansen, R., Randrup, T. B., & Konijnendijk van den Bosch, C. (2017). Nature-based solutions and climate change–four shades of green. In Nature-Based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas (pp. 29-49). Springer, Cham.​

  • Personal Information

    Please provide the following personal information. All questions may be skipped if desired.
  • 1. To which gender indentity do you most identify?
  • 2. What is your age?
  • 3. Which of the following categories best fits your occupation?
  • 4. What is your field of speciality
  • 5. For how many years have you worked in your field?

  • Importance of environmental justice in nature-based solutions

  • 7. In your opinion, what are the 3 most important focus areas in urban planning to achieve the universal right to ecological space in the city?  [Select 3 options]
  • 9. In your opinion, which of the following helps best to address environmental (in)justice in the planning of a city? [Select 1 option]

  • Ecological justice considerations in nature-based solutions

    11. For the following statements on ecological justice in urban nature-based solutions, indicate the extent to which you agree, based on your experiences [Rate the following statements from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree)]
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  • Thermal justice in the city

    12. For the following statements on thermal justice in cities, indicate the extent to which you agree, based on your knowledge and experiences [Rate the following statements from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree)]
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  • Carbon justice in cities

  • Gentrification and nature-based solutions

    Gentrification is a process of displacement caused by wealthier developments of neighborhoods and highlights some issues in the inclusion of nature-based solutions within a neighborhood. Problems and issues that may be encountered are for example the increase of real estate costs, or the reallocation of the less well-off.

  • 14. To what extent do you think that nature-based solutions can contribute to societal inequalities in cities? Indicate the likelihood of nature-based solutions increasing the inequalities in the statements below [From 1 (Highly likely) to 4 (Highly unlikely)]
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  • 15. In your opinion, during which stages of the design and implementation process is it most relevant to consider the socio-economic, cultural and socio-demographic characteristics of the neighborhood, to decrease the negative side-effects of nature-based solutions associated with gentrification?

  • Justice in the city

  • Last thoughts

  • 17. Which of the following themes related to environmental justice and nature-based solutions would you be the most interested to know more about [select 1 option]
  • 18. Based on your answer to the previous question, which nature-based solutions do you think have the most positive impact on your chosen theme (i.e., air, thermal, carbon, spatial, habitat, and temporal justice)? [Select 3 options]
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