ACTIVITIES | DEVELOPMENT BEYOND TESTING | Nature-based solutions approach | - Agriculture demonstration
- On farm agricultural research/field stations
- Soil health improvement techniques (e.g., cover cropping, crop rotation)
| - Forest restoration projects
- Offset regional soil challenges
- Boost potential of forests bioeconomy extension (bio-products)
| - Urban green infrastructure
- Ecosystem services deployment
| - Redevelopment and regeneration
- Soil remediation techniques (e.g., phytoremediation, bioremediation, natural attenuation)
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Multiple-scale work / multi-actor strategic roadmap (interdisciplinary) | - Interdisciplinary research on sustainable farming practices
| - Cross-sectoral forest management strategies
- Collaborative conservation initiatives
| - Urban planning integration with environmental goals
- Stakeholder engagement in (re)development
| - Integrated industrial site rehabilitation plans (land stewardship, sustainable risk based land management)
- Stakeholder engagement in brownfield redevelopment
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Management strategies | - Sustainable farming management plans
- Agricultural risk assessment
| - Adaptive forest management practices
- Forest risk evaluations
- Joint forest management
| - Green infrastructure management
- Urban risk assessment
- Long term, soil and water-based spatial planning strategies
| - Contaminated site management strategies
- Sustainable risk based land management
- Industrial risk assessment
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CO-CREATION & PARTICIPATION | Knowledge exchange | - Tacit and explicitly agriculture knowledge sharing
- Transgenerational agriculture knowledge
- Agriculture-innovation knowledge (dissemination)
| - Tacit forestry knowledge
- Transgenerational forestry knowledge
| - Soil and water based urban planning
- Research by design
- Community gardening and urban farming knowledge
| - Industrial remediation techniques / workshops
- Industrial remediation research
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User-centricity and end-users | - Farmer-centric approaches
- Participatory agricultural research
| - Forest user involvement (e.g., local communities, indigenous groups)
| - Community-focused urban projects
- Resident engagement in urban sustainability
| - Involvement of local communities and actors in remediation projects
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Capacity building | - Training programs for farmers
- Field demonstrations
| - Forestry management training
- Community forestry education
| - Urban sustainability workshops
| - Training on industrial remediation techniques
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Dialogue and problematisation (shared challenges/problems) | - Cooperation meetings
- Agricultural unions
- Local farm networks
| - Meditation between opposing interests (e.g. pure conservation vs exploitation)
| | - Mediation between opposing interests
- Cocreation to find solutions / common grounds (technical, financial, social, legal) for brownfield remediation
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ITERATION | Feedback loops | - Continuous improvement in farming practices
| | | - Iterative remediation and redevelopment strategies
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Alignment with excising regulations / policy instruments/testing | - Compliance with agricultural policies
| - Forestry policy alignment
| - Integration with urban policies
| - Industrial regulation compliance
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Scientific validation | | | - Measuring effectiveness of urban sustainability policies
| - Measuring effectiveness of (new) remediation techniques for (emerging) contaminants
- Lab testing
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SCALING UP AND OUT | Upscaling activities | - Scaling up from pilot / field to region
- Scaling from harvest to large scale production
| | - Governance model on urban LLs and LHs (implemented by cities)
| - Post-industrial demonstration activities
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Advisory system and technical considerations | - Agricultural advisory systems
| - Forestry advisory systems
| - Urban planning advisory systems
- Communities of practice
| - Industrial site advisory systems
- Communities of practice
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Awareness rising, network dissemination and outreach (public visits) | - Agricultural extension services
- Thematic seminars / meetings of agriculture topics
- Media
| - Forestry conservation awareness
- Thematic seminars / meetings of forestry topics
| - Urban sustainability campaigns
| - Post-industrial demonstration activities
- Industrial site remediation awareness
- Thematic seminars / meetings of industry topics
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ECONOMIC - ENVIRONMENTAL - SOCIAL DIMENSIONS | Awareness rising, network dissemination and outreach(public visits) | - Agricultural funding programs
| - Forestry conservation funding
| - Urban sustainability funding
| - Industrial remediation funding
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Economic models and solidary economic | | | - Creating collective systems / places (Wadi / Playground)
| - Economic models for remediation / redevelopment (wider values of remediation)
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Business models and financial sustainability | | | - Saving costs on sewage systems because of Ecosystem services.
- Payment schemes for ecosystem services
| - Economic models for remediation / redevelopment (wider values of remediation)
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Public and private goods | | | - Program to convince private landowners to contribute to common goals (e.g., desealing gardens for climate adaptivity)
| - Ecosystem provision by private industrial landowners for surroundings
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MEASURE PROGRESS | Monitoring process/ systems/ technologies | - Carbon monitoring
- Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)
- MARVIC project
- Near-Infrared (NIR) scanner to determine cheap and quickly nutrient levels
| | - M2 of soil sealing
- # organisms in the topsoil
| - Monitoring effectivity of remediation techniques (contamination levels and spreading)
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(real-time) Testing and validation | - Bottom-up on-farm experimentation
| | - Co-monitoring communities towards pro-active role of citizens
| - Co-monitoring communities towards pro-active role of citizens
- Passive sampling
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Scientific validation | | | - Creating opportunities for University Students to do research in multiple LLs
| - Creating opportunities for University Students to do research in multiple LLs
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Progress indicators | - Increase soil carbon
- Increase biodiversity
- Consumer demand
| | - Decrease in M2 of sealed soil
- Increase in # of soil organisms
| - Contamination levels and spreading
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Modelling soil health effects | - Carbon
- Nutrients
- Biodiversity
- Tools such as cool farm tool/rothc
| | - Biodiversity
- Infiltration capacity
- Organic matter content
| - Contamination levels
- Infiltration capacity
- Natural attenuation ability
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ORCHESTRATION | Network strategies | - Agricultural unions
- Extension
- Farm networks / cooperation
| | - Setup and work with:
- Neighbourhood groups
- Municipal environmental groups
- Citizen panels
- Gardening associations
- Social Housing organisations
| - Set up neighbourhood groups, actor groups for regeneration of contaminated and brownfield land
- Municipal environmental groups
- Citizen panels
- Social Housing organisations
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Scale of orchestration | | | - City-level orchestration or neighbourhood level (also depending on the scale # of M2 and Inhabitants + social coherence)
| - Large-scale industrial site orchestration
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Local synergies & cross-border collaborations / perspective | | | - Collaboration based on a shared problem or goals (e.g., climate proof cities)
| - Site-based collaboration, region scale collaboration
- Collaboration based on a shared problem (e.g. emerging contaminants)
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