This project is closely linked to the SUPER project, and the URBIS project which is a joint collaboration between UNESCO and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, with the aim to re-establish the connection between people and their natural environment through innovative forms of knowledge networking and governance of the urban landscape. The project explores how a framework of common property (pool) resource management could improve metropolitan designs in their deliverance of ecosystem services.
Based on case study-oriented research in the city-regions ofStockholm and Melbourne the project addresses three overall questions:
1) How can application of the concept of ecosystem services enable spatial planning and governance to better account for the reciprocal relationship between human and ecological systems in green wedges?
2) How can institutional capacity building related to common property resource management inform sustainable development of green wedges?
3) What overall lessons for sustainable urban development can be drawn from these insights?
This 3-year research project is funded by a grant from FORMAS.
