Bridging inner and outer transformation for the mainstreaming of nature-based solutions
(2024) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20241LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- Abstract
- Cities face multiple social-ecological challenges, which nature-based solutions (NBS) promise to address. Strategies to mainstream NBS have only achieved partial success, hence recent studies suggest that inner dimensions - mindsets and transformative capacities - must be mainstreamed simultaneously. This study investigates municipal employees' engagement with inner dimensions, its impact on sustainability, and inner dimension shifts during NBS implementation. By interviewing participants from the Clever Cities project in Malmö Municipality, no explicit engagement with inner dimensions during the project was discovered. The inner dimensions most reported were openness towards collaboration and a sense of responsibility. Yet, interviewees... (More)
- Cities face multiple social-ecological challenges, which nature-based solutions (NBS) promise to address. Strategies to mainstream NBS have only achieved partial success, hence recent studies suggest that inner dimensions - mindsets and transformative capacities - must be mainstreamed simultaneously. This study investigates municipal employees' engagement with inner dimensions, its impact on sustainability, and inner dimension shifts during NBS implementation. By interviewing participants from the Clever Cities project in Malmö Municipality, no explicit engagement with inner dimensions during the project was discovered. The inner dimensions most reported were openness towards collaboration and a sense of responsibility. Yet, interviewees saw no link to outcomes. Barriers in the political sphere undermined the project, and a shift in inner dimensions was not detected. Inner dimensions at a project level are insufficient to catalyse transformations, revealing a scale mismatch between inner and outer dimensions. Longitudinal studies are needed since inner dimensions develop beyond individual projects. (Less)
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- author
- Schröders, Eileen LU and Wölper, Kim LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MESM02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- mainstreaming, nature-based solutions, inner-outer transformation, transformative capacities, inner dimensions, municipalities, sustainability science
- publication/series
- Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
- report number
- 2024:021
- language
- English
- id
- 9154206
- date added to LUP
- 2024-05-28 12:51:13
- date last changed
- 2024-05-28 12:51:13
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