15 Co-creation of nature-based solutions: guidelines for citizen engagement
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Nathalie Nunes
Abstract
The promoters of urban regeneration processes have been mostly committed to the involvement of the inhabitants and stakeholders of their areas of intervention in deprived urban districts by means of innovative practices, such as in the case of nature-based solutions (NBS). In this context, social workers increasingly play a role in engaging citizens in nature-based activities. This chapter explores the research and fieldwork around citizen engagement and the co-creation of NBS in the framework of the URBiNAT project, aiming at an urban inclusive and innovative nature. We present developments and findings in relation to understanding local participatory cultures and identifying significant factors impacting citizen engagement, namely a research construction and instrument to inform the tailoring of participatory methods and tools for the co-design and co-implementation of NBS, as well as a ‘living’ framework of guidelines for citizen engagement and co-creation of NBS. These developments and findings have also paved the way to learning points for other similar city NBS development projects, based on the study of participatory implementations of NBS. We particularly analyse how guideline categories addressing core leverages for successful citizen engagement in the co-creation of NBS are combined according to various city cases.
Abstract
The promoters of urban regeneration processes have been mostly committed to the involvement of the inhabitants and stakeholders of their areas of intervention in deprived urban districts by means of innovative practices, such as in the case of nature-based solutions (NBS). In this context, social workers increasingly play a role in engaging citizens in nature-based activities. This chapter explores the research and fieldwork around citizen engagement and the co-creation of NBS in the framework of the URBiNAT project, aiming at an urban inclusive and innovative nature. We present developments and findings in relation to understanding local participatory cultures and identifying significant factors impacting citizen engagement, namely a research construction and instrument to inform the tailoring of participatory methods and tools for the co-design and co-implementation of NBS, as well as a ‘living’ framework of guidelines for citizen engagement and co-creation of NBS. These developments and findings have also paved the way to learning points for other similar city NBS development projects, based on the study of participatory implementations of NBS. We particularly analyse how guideline categories addressing core leverages for successful citizen engagement in the co-creation of NBS are combined according to various city cases.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- List of figures and tables x
- List of abbreviations xi
- Notes on contributors xiii
- Introduction 1
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Framing social innovation and social work
- Social work and social innovation: how the twain can meet 11
- How to change our neighbourhoods, regions and the world: using symptoms, systems and transformation as a framework for social innovation and social work 24
- Social work, social innovation, discretion and creativity: day-to-day innovation of practice 41
- Potential for social innovation in social work: applying the capability approach 54
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Examples of social innovations in social work across Europe
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Co-creation and co-production of social services: social innovation in practice
- The art of co-creation: service innovation in Europe 71
- Promoting social services innovation: regional and local examples from across Europe 84
- Co-creation in action: lessons from the CoSIE project 98
- Social innovation and service users’ involvement: enhancing the knowledge of social work 112
- Moderating processes of social innovation: insights from a case study on labour market activation 124
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Education and learning: social innovation in social work education and learning
- Regional learning networks in the social welfare domain: drivers of social innovation in social work 139
- Putting learning communities into practice: innovation of social work education 150
- Learning from innovation processes: introducing Easy Language in adult protection services 164
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Community work, community-led innovation and collective action
- The rediscovery of community: community development as social innovation 179
- Climate change from a green social work perspective: responding to a constantly evolving crisis challenging social work practice 193
- Co-creation of nature-based solutions: guidelines for citizen engagement 208
- Innovating social work practices to better address homelessness: participatory action research with community services in Italy 223
- Challenging the power status quo: paradoxes in grassroots social innovation 236
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Social entrepreneurship: inclusive and regenerative models of social business and innovation for sustainable impact
- Social entrepreneurship as social innovation: what about social work? 251
- The growing rhetoric of entrepreneurship in times of crisis: future challenges of social work in the case of Portugal 263
- Unlimited incubators for belonging, cohesion and impact: nurturing ‘what is already there’ 276
- Developing the innovative power of social work: synthesis and future directions 289
- Index 298
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- List of figures and tables x
- List of abbreviations xi
- Notes on contributors xiii
- Introduction 1
-
Framing social innovation and social work
- Social work and social innovation: how the twain can meet 11
- How to change our neighbourhoods, regions and the world: using symptoms, systems and transformation as a framework for social innovation and social work 24
- Social work, social innovation, discretion and creativity: day-to-day innovation of practice 41
- Potential for social innovation in social work: applying the capability approach 54
-
Examples of social innovations in social work across Europe
-
Co-creation and co-production of social services: social innovation in practice
- The art of co-creation: service innovation in Europe 71
- Promoting social services innovation: regional and local examples from across Europe 84
- Co-creation in action: lessons from the CoSIE project 98
- Social innovation and service users’ involvement: enhancing the knowledge of social work 112
- Moderating processes of social innovation: insights from a case study on labour market activation 124
-
Education and learning: social innovation in social work education and learning
- Regional learning networks in the social welfare domain: drivers of social innovation in social work 139
- Putting learning communities into practice: innovation of social work education 150
- Learning from innovation processes: introducing Easy Language in adult protection services 164
-
Community work, community-led innovation and collective action
- The rediscovery of community: community development as social innovation 179
- Climate change from a green social work perspective: responding to a constantly evolving crisis challenging social work practice 193
- Co-creation of nature-based solutions: guidelines for citizen engagement 208
- Innovating social work practices to better address homelessness: participatory action research with community services in Italy 223
- Challenging the power status quo: paradoxes in grassroots social innovation 236
-
Social entrepreneurship: inclusive and regenerative models of social business and innovation for sustainable impact
- Social entrepreneurship as social innovation: what about social work? 251
- The growing rhetoric of entrepreneurship in times of crisis: future challenges of social work in the case of Portugal 263
- Unlimited incubators for belonging, cohesion and impact: nurturing ‘what is already there’ 276
- Developing the innovative power of social work: synthesis and future directions 289
- Index 298
