Projects
SPARE: Space for resilience - How do we plan for stormwater, biodiversity and recreation to increase urban resilience?
In SPARE we research how cities can increase their resilience by better planning for and implementation of more blue-green infrastructure to handle stormwater, foster biodiversity and increase public health by providing natural outdoor opportunities for recreation.
- Project period
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- Funders
- The Research Council of Norway
- Total budget (NOK)
- 28,000,000
- External webpages
- spare-project.com
- Research section
- Water and society
- Contact persons
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Isabel Seifert-Dähnn
Ingvild Skumlien Furuseth
Line Johanne Barkved
Maximilian Nawrath
Caroline Enge
Susanne Claudia Schneider
About the project
SPARE is a collaborative research project funded by the Research council of Norway.
SPARE has gathered a multidisciplinary consortium with partners from research, business and public administration. Together we work on how stormwater, biodiversity and recreation can be managed together in urban areas by using blue-green infrastructures in order to increase the resilience of urban societies.
In the project we
- Uncover policy conflicts challenging the implementation of blue-green infrastructure in the Oslo metropolitan region.
- Increase our understanding on how design and maintenance of blue-green infrastructure – including re-surfaced streams, other blue-green infrastructures with aquatic components and urban trees – contribute to urban biodiversity and how synergistic effects for biodiversity, stormwater and recreation can be created at the landscape level.
- Develop and apply city-wide accounting mechanisms for costs and benefits of blue-green infrastructures and enable also reporting for UN Sustainable development goals.
- Develop, test and evaluate interventions and polycentric management approaches for stronger involvement of citizens and to foster cross-sectoral cooperation for integrated stormwater, biodiversity and recreation management.
- Integrate relevant findings into tools or tangible outputs, which can be used by the cooperation partners and are easily transferable to other municipalities.
