Nature-based Solutions on privately owned land: Stakeholder engagement matters

• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-7898
• Publication Date: 2024-03-08T18:18:58Z
• Authors: Marion Wallner; Thomas Thaler; Arthur Schindelegger; Katharina Gugerell
• Keywords: Stakeholder Engagement

To tackle hydrometeorological extreme events and adapt to climate change, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are widely considered a promising approach. Yet, their implementation remains challenging. One key reason is that NbS require lot more land than grey infrastructure – making dependent on privately owned prone cause or exacerbate conflicts of interest over use. This request widens the numbers actors involved in decision-making process. For this very reason, realisation highlights necessity meaningful stakeholder engagement. However, past, technical mitigation measures were traditionally enforced top down by engineers within public administration at national regional level. Stakeholder engagement thus fundamentally changes way how risk managers citizens collaborate often reported not live up its expectations. Therefore, study will address role as decisive factor for land. More specifically, it aims (i) analyse what approaches currently employed side flood authorities (ii) evaluate processes account purpose, qualitative research design approach be exerted. involve desk identify areas Austria where have already been (and be) implemented, semi-structured interviews with water workshops our case site Lafnitz catchment Austria. Lessons learnt compared those five other regions across Europe, embedded EU Horizon Project “Land4Climate” (Utilization private mainstreaming systemic transformation towards climate-resilient HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01-06). By doing so, provide hands-on knowledge foster European Union.