TNOC Festival 2024

How can we empower people/communities to set their own nature targets? Once a target is set it becomes easier to get the politicians and companies on board to join in reaching the target.

In this session, we will zoom in and out on new questions of justice in/with/for urban nature-based solutions, with speakers coming from different analytical perspectives, methodological approaches, and geographical locations. The discussants will bring in new questions and unexplored ‘areas of justice’ and we will invite the audience to add to these questions in break-out group discussions. As an output, we collectively develop an agenda of new questions and ideas to push the bounds of just urban NBS.

This session explores what nature-people connections for NBS governance- mean in practice. Invited discussants present a dominant perspective on how people-nature relationships are understood or portrayed in a specific area of NBS research. During these sessions, we will work with the audience to interrupt these dominant understandings through interactive story-telling, where anecdotes, debates and questions intervene in and disrupt narratives. We will collectively come up with new questions to open up the inquiry and create new tangible action pathways for reconfiguring people-nature relationships in cities.