Context matters: Co-creating nature-based solutions in rural living labs

• Soini, Katriina ^[8] ; Anderson, Carl Cyrus ^[1] ; Polderman, Annemarie ^[2] ; Teresa, Carlone ^[3] ; Sisay, Debele ^[4] ; Kumar, Prashant ^[4] ; Mannocchi, Matteo ^[3] ; Mickovski, Slobodan ^[5] ; Panga, Depy ^[9] ; Pilla, Francesco ^[6] ; Preuschmann, Swantje ^[10] ; Sahani, Jeetendra ^[4] ; Tuomenvirta, Heikki ^[7]
  1. [1] Ruhr University Bochum

     Ruhr University Bochum

     Kreisfreie Stadt Bochum, Alemania

     
  2. [2] Austrian Academy of Sciences

     Austrian Academy of Sciences

     Innere Stadt, Austria

     
  3. [3] University of Bologna

     University of Bologna

     Bolonia, Italia

     
  4. [4] University of Surrey

     University of Surrey

     Guildford District, Reino Unido

     
  5. [5] Glasgow Caledonian University

     Glasgow Caledonian University

     Reino Unido

     
  6. [6] University College Dublin

     University College Dublin

     Irlanda

     
  7. [7] Finnish Meteorological Institute

     Finnish Meteorological Institute

     Helsinki, Finlandia

     
  8. [8] Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland
  9. [9] Innovative Technologies Centre, Athens, Greece
  10. [10] Deutsch Allianz Meeresforschung, Berlin, Germany

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• Localización: Land use policy: The International Journal Covering All Aspects of Land Use, ISSN 0264-8377, ISSN-e 1873-5754, Nº. 133, 2023
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The use of Nature-based Solutions (NBS), designed and implemented with participatory approaches, is rapidly increasing. Much use is being made of the Living Lab (LL) concept to co-create innovative NBS with stakeholders in a certain societal and environmental, real-life context. Most of the current research revolves around urban LLs, thus overlooking specificities of rural areas. Furthermore, the influence of the context itself on co-creation processes is insufficiently recognised, leaving challenges associated with co-creation such as stakeholder engagement unresolved. By exploring the co-creation processes in the LLs of the OPERANDUM project, this study identifies eighteen contextual factors shaping the co-creation processes of NBS within rural territories and provides associated recommendations. In addition, based on lessons learnt in the OPERANDUM project, we discuss the value of a relational place-based approach in LLs, suggesting that the co-creation process should be approached as a dynamic confluence of many interconnected contextual factors. We conclude that acknowledging the interconnections in co-creation in the real-life context of rural territories may increase the success and impact of the LL approach, and ultimately, the benefits of NBS.