D2.4 Handbook on Identifying Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials in Cities / JUSTPlanT

The deliverable 2.4, Handbook on Identifying Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials in Cities, was submitted by EURAC Research with contributions from TUM, TUC, UM, RWI, ABUD, E2ARC, PI, IES, INLE, CHX, iUE (ex ISOCARP Institute), KYDON, MUC, LEU, MERANO, COBZ, GLC, SMJVO and PKI in April 2024. The description of the deliverable is available below and the full deliverable is at the end for download:

This deliverable introduces the Strategic Planning Method-kit for Ecological Justice – JUSTPlanT, a practical guide designed to facilitate collaborative and participatory processes in the design and planning of NbS that effectively tackle urban challenges. The method-kit provides practical guidelines and methods to empower users to develop integrated and inclusive strategies for implementing NbS in their communities.

JUSTPlanT constitutes the final output of the Work Package 2 on Recognizing Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials. It draws upon the insights of the conceptual and action framework developed in Deliverable 2.1 - Conceptual & action framework on Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials - with the main objective to translate key justice concepts into actionable strategies, suggesting a practical approach to achieve integration of justice considerations into NbS implementation. It integrates the results of Deliverable 2.2 - Setting the stage for ecological and socioeconomic status & disparities profiles in the CiPeLs - through the development of practical instructions aiming at facilitating the integration of spatial data in the NbS planning process. It also builds on the results of Deliverable 2.3 on Assessment report Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials & scenarios future trajectories, to examine avenues for employing participatory methods in co-creating climate scenarios.

JUSTPlanT targets municipal public administrations, urban planners, (landscape) architects or site developers as well as citizen and neighborhood initiatives who want to collaboratively navigate the complexity of justice considerations when activating NbS.

Community of practices are invited to further expand the method-kit’s scope, by integrating additional ecological (space) justice dimensions not yet captured and exploring its application at different scales, including regional or national levels.

You can download this public deliverable from the Zenodo community.