Journal
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FRONTIERS
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 12-31Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.15302/J-LAF-1-020003
Keywords
Participative Process; Socio-Ecological Restoration; Urban Study; River Management; Water Resource Governance; Living Lab; Polycentric Governance
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- According to Nature (PHUSICOS) project, European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [776681]
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The both polycentric governance and Living Labs concepts are based on decentralized participatory planning, co-design, and decision-making. While the concept of Living Lab is still emerging, the Isar-Plan (2000 similar to 2011) pioneered the approach for selecting, co-designing, and implementing nature-based solutions along the Isar River in Munich, Germany. Despite multiple governing authorities involved in the decisionmaking process of the Isar-Plan, the polycentric governance that led to the success of the project has to date not been analyzed. This paper presents the results of an ex-post-analysis of the Isar-Plan restoration planning process based on stakeholder interviews and a literature review. The contribution describes the evolution of Isar-Plan governance arrangements and discusses the Living Lab approaches to cooperative governance. The analysis demonstrates how polycentricity facilitated trust, learning, and the co-design of a resilient waterscape. The paper concludes that Living Labs can be a way of applying polycentric governance when autonomous and multi-scale decision-makers are collaboratively involved in the design of policy solutions, and vice-versa.
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