Read Our Blogposts
In our blogpost series, we engage a range of participants from the NATURESCAPES project to write about nature-based solutions, our project activities and ambitions, as well as what it all means for nature and society.
Co-financing nature-based solutions: How, who, and for what future
29 AUGUST 2025
The UN Environment Programme has called for private investment in nature-based solutions to triple by 2030. One of the challenges here is how that money is engaged, on whose terms, and whether it supports fair and effective transformative change on the ground. Read more here.
The Injustices of Nature-Based Solutions: A Racial and Ecological Reckoning
23 JUNE 2025
Why do NBS need to reckon with legacies of racial and ecological injustice? Realising the transformative potential of nature-based solutions requires unpacking the ways initiatives too often build from ideas that require injustice, such as the logics of racial capitalism. Read more here.
Living landscape: Art, embodiment, and nature-based solutions in Cagliari
13 MAY 2025
How might art expand the transformative potential of Nature-Based Solutions? How can the creativity of artists be bridged with the pragmatism of planners and ecologists to help us move beyond binaries like human versus nature to cultivate urban environments that are more just, sustainable, and liveable for all? Read more here.
The evolution of naturescapes, over time and space
28 APRIL 2025
Naturescapes aren’t static things. They change over time, especially in urban areas, as cities grow and land-use changes. They also vary a lot spatially, from place to place, and their form is shaped by the history of the landscape in which they reside. Read more here.
Nature-based Solutions and the limits of control
31 MARCH 2025
Nature-based solutions are potentially powerful responses to the environmental crisis. But what kind of power do we envision for these solutions, and with what consequences? Read more here.
Disaster Risk Reduction and Coastal Adaptation in Naturescapes
11 FEBRUARY 2025
Risk reduction is one of the many ecosystem services provided by natural ecosystems. Understanding risks reduced and enhanced by NBS is key, and it is particularly important in megadiverse countries searching for alternative development pathways supported by their biodiversity wealth. Read more here.
Fort-de-France Case: Identifying Naturescapes
20 DECEMBER 2024
Fort-de-France, the capital city of Martinique, is a unique case in the Naturescapes project. This blogpost gives a brief overview of our research in Fort-de-France, and we discuss one way our project goes about identifying the role and boundaries of naturescapes. Read more here.
Naturescapes project aims to build an international community where researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners can exchange ideas. We call this community the Naturescapes Collaboratory. In this blog, I discuss what the Collaboratory is all about and why it is vital to our commitment to open science. Read more here.
The Naturescapes Collaboratory
10 DECEMBER 2024
Naturescapes at COP16: Hopes, Anxieties and Concerns
20 NOVEMBER 2024
The UN’s Biodiversity summit recently took place in Cali, Columbia (COP16) ahead of the UN’s Climate summit (COP29) in Azerbaijan. This blogpost reflects on conflicts that emerged in joining the climate-biodiversity agendas at COP16 and its influence on a transformative change for justice. Read more here.
Transformative change frames many responses to the biodiversity-climate crisis. This blogpost looks at some of the ways people think about transformative change and briefly discusses the role justice has in steering transformations. Read more here.
Towards Transformative Change
9 OCTOBER 2024
Nature-based solutions heavily feature in debates about biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, and sustainability. In this research project, we strive to understand how nature-based solutions work together across space and time to create what we call: Naturescapes. Read more here.
What is a Naturescape?
23 SEPTEMBER 2024