Barcelona
Barcelona will use its unique advocacy role to develop strategic, international city networks. Barcelona will cooperate internationally to share and shape green infrastructure strategies and biodiversity plans at the city level. These networks will be further developed to establish which ecosystem services are provided or deficient in specific city areas; where new green spaces should be sited; and to design future urban ecosystem restoration.
The Barcelona Life-Lab aims to re-green dense urban and deprived neighbourhoods with urban food and amenity interventions, demonstrating improved biodiversity and environmental performance in urban allotment gardens. Each nature-based solution will be monitored for their potential for food production, biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning, as well as pollutants accumulation, retention and phytoremediation.
A new guidance manual will be provided for nature-based solutions management, drawing on the three CONEXUS design and maintenance protocols. This manual will categorise interventions in various ways, including the type of vegetation, the type of urban green space, the habitat, users' knowledge of health, motivations and opportunities to improve social cohesion.
Conexus Life-Lab Factsheet Series
Urban Agriculture Observatory: Social and Ecosystem services
The Urban Agriculture Observatory is a partnership aiming to establish a database of environmental and social aspects of urban allotments and their benefits. Based on the database, a public web platform is created to share collected data and bring urban agriculture closer to citizens. It is intended to position Barcelona as a reference in urban agriculture policies.
