- 1Ecostack Innovations Limited, Kordin Business Incubation Centre, Paola, PLA 3000, Malta (sara.camilleri@ecostackinnovations.com)
- 2Practical Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki, Finland
- 3Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki, Finland
- 4Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 1, Helsinki, Finland
- 5Department of Environmental and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Agnes Sjöberginkatu 2, Helsinki, Finland
- 6Urban Systems Lab, The New School, 79 5th Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10003, USA
- 7Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA
- 8Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, Sweden
- 9Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico Di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milano, Italy
- 10Department of Health Science, Institute of Sport Science, University of Bern, Bremgartenstrasse 145, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
- 11Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
- 12MGH Institute for Technology Assessment, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- 13Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 14Spatial Dynamics Lab, University College Dublin, Ireland
- 15Senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- 16Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology, Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover, Germany
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) offer transformative pathways enabling environmental, social and economic benefits while building resilience, improving biodiversity and providing human well-being. A mixed-methods systematic literature review is carried out within the Horizon Europe project GoGreenNext to a) evaluate how synergistic solutions involving nature, climate, and health within urban settings are conceptualised in peer-reviewed literature, and b) identify barriers and enables influencing the uptake of these synergistic solutions in cities. Following standardised literature searches a corpus of 898 peer reviewed articles were considered with data being extracted from 495 articles. Here we aim to present preliminary results from this review, identifying strengths and weaknesses in terms of uptake of synergistic solutions that address different links within the biodiversity-climate-health nexus. Specifically, we characterise NbS interventions that can be considered as synergistic solutions and identify societal challenges and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressed by these interventions. Additionally, we conceptualise the barriers and enablers as social, ecological and technological factors influencing the transformative potential of existing interventions (e.g. NbS) across the 3-way nexus within urban settings.
How to cite: Camilleri, S., Stojanovic, M., Wübbelmann, T., Raymond, C., McPhearson, T., Mansoldo, M., Mifsud Scicluna, B., Mannich, E., Castaldo, A. G., Kennedy, C., Nigg, C., Callan, E., Mohammad, J., Gensitz, K., Galle, N., Kabisch, N., Macintyre, T. E., and Balzan, M. V.: The barriers and enablers influencing the transformative potential of existing interventions across the biodiversity-climate-planetary health nexus within cities: A Systematic Review, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-18622, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18622, 2025.
