Harnessing community science to support implementation and success of nature-based solutions

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dc.contributor.authorCabling, Ludwig Paul B.
dc.contributor.authorDubrawski, Kristian L.
dc.contributor.authorAcker, Maleea
dc.contributor.authorBrill, Gregg C.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T23:00:36Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T23:00:36Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractCommunity science (CS), a type of community-based participatory research, plays a crucial role in advancing wide-reaching environmental education and awareness by leveraging the collective power of volunteer participants who contribute to research efforts. The low barriers of entry and well-established methods of participatory monitoring have potential to enable community participant involvement in applications of nature-based solutions (NbS). However, a better understanding of the current state of community-based approaches within NbS could improve feasibility for researchers and practitioners to implement community-based approaches in NbS. Based on the current literature, we discern five community science approaches that support NbS: (1) Environmental monitoring to determine baseline conditions; (2) Involvement of participants in NbS development and planning through discussions and workshops (i.e., co-design of NbS); (3) Using existing CS databases to support NbS design and implementation; (4) Determining the impacts and measuring effectiveness of NbS; and (5) Participation in multifunctional activities. While there are various avenues of participation, we find that CS-driven environmental monitoring (i.e., actions that involve observing, measuring, and assessing environmental parameters and conditions over time) emerges as a cornerstone of planning, implementing, and maintaining the success of NbS. As the proliferation of NbS implementation continues, future work to integrate community-based monitoring studies in NbS applications has potential, albeit far from guaranteed, to improve place-based and local societal and ecological outcomes.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada grant EDF-CA-2020j005.
dc.identifier.citationCabling, L. P. B., Dubrawski, K. L., Acker, M., & Brill, G. (2024). Harnessing community science to support implementation and success of nature-based solutions. Sustainability, 16(23), 10415. https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310415
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su162310415
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22101
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSustainability
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcommunity science
dc.subjectnature-based solutions
dc.subjectenvironmental monitoring
dc.subjectparticipatory monitoring
dc.titleHarnessing community science to support implementation and success of nature-based solutions
dc.typeArticle

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