Wageningen Research
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Dr.ir. Robbert Snep is a senior researcher 'Green Cities" at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) with 20+ years of professional experience in applied urban ecology (biodiversity, ecosystem services), ecosystem-based adaptation techniques, nature-based solutions for citizen health and water safety, environmental impact assessments, implementation of corporate social responsibility strategies, science-policy and science-practice interactions, national and regional ecosystem studies, planning for resilience and ecosystem-services, coordinator of interdisciplinary research teams and individual researcher/consultant. Focus of work is in the Netherlands, also projects in USA and Mozambique.

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A KEY STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION ON ‘ SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTING GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT’ : WORKING ON LARGE-SCALE NBS INTEGRATION IN DUTCH URBAN DESIGN

Session Type
Academic Sessions
Date
02/22/2022
Session Time
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Room

Hall C

Lecture Time
01:30 PM - 01:40 PM

Abstract

Abstract Body

In Dutch urban renewal and expansion, urban green is insufficiently included to functionally contribute to the quality of city life, although the benefits of urban green are now widely known. Especially at a time when the city is facing important challenges such as the building task (1M houses) and the sustainable energy transition, opportunities for healthy, climate-resilient and social cities are often missed. This means that targets for sustainable urbanization will not be achieved. The Dutch ‘Successful Implementing Green Urban Development’ project (2020-2023, TKI funded) works on a better implementation of urban green in city development projects. The projects develops tools to support urbanization professionals with the right knowledge to integrate functional green (including NBS) in urban development processes. One of the strong points of the project - initiated by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) - is its overarching consortium of key stakeholders. This encompasses 25 partners including 12 city governments (including Amsterdam, Utrecht, Almere, Eindhoven), 8 sector organizations in the fields of urban development & design up (NEPROM, BNSP, Stadswerk) to (landscape) architecture (BNA, NVTL) and landscaping (VHG, De Groene Stad), and as well as individual urban design offices, NL Greenlabel and the Dutch National Forest Service (SBB). In the project a systematic research is being carried out regarding the success and failure factors in the integration of urban green in urban design processes. Together with cities and sector organizations strategies and action perspectives are proposed such as improvements to NBS guidelines, standards, labels, and financing models for functional green spaces in cities. In 2020 a series of pilot studies has started in the 12 cities. In these pilots researchers have identified how in the different stages (initial, definition, design, realization, maintenance) of ambitious green urban development projects the conditions for successful NBS integration are created or missed. The lessons learnt from these pilots, as well as experiences of working together with a national network of project developers en urban designers will be presented at the Ecocity World Summit.

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