scholarly journals Tools for Edible Cities: A Review of Tools for Planning and Assessing Edible Nature-Based Solutions

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 2366
Author(s):  
Eric Mino ◽  
Josep Pueyo-Ros ◽  
Mateja Škerjanec ◽  
Joana A. C. Castellar ◽  
André Viljoen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Productive Urban Landscapes ◽  
Water Nutrients ◽  
Food Potential

In the last five years, European research and innovation programmes have prioritised the development of online catalogues and tools (handbooks, models, etc.) to facilitate the implementation and monitoring of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). However, only a few catalogues and toolkits within European programmes are directly related to mainstreaming of NBS for food production (i.e., edible NBS). Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to present existing NBS tools through the eyes of productive urban landscapes. We reviewed 32 projects related to NBS and 50 tools were identified and characterised. Then, the six tools already available and provided indicators were further analysed in terms of their format and knowledge domains. Our main conclusion demonstrates that there is a lack of tools capable of supporting users for planning and implementing edible NBS; calculating the food potential of a city and/or of individual edible NBS, including the needed resources for implementation and operation (water, nutrients, energy); and assessing their urban design value, environmental and socio-economic impacts. Moreover, when they do exist, there is a resistance to share the models and equations behind the tools to allow other projects to reuse or validate them, a fact which is contrary to the open science principles upheld by many public research agencies.

scholarly journals Tools for Edible Cities: A Review of Tools for Planning and Assessing Edible Nature-Based Solutions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Mino ◽  
Josep Pueyo-Ros ◽  
Mateja Škerjanec ◽  
Joana A. Castellar ◽  
Andre Viljoen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Productive Urban Landscapes ◽  
The City ◽  
Water Nutrients ◽  
Food Potential

In the last five years, European research and innovation programmes have prioritised the development of online catalogues and tools (handbooks, models, etc.) to facilitate the implementation and monitoring of Nature Based Solutions (NBS). However, only a few catalogues and toolkits within European programmes are directly related to mainstreaming of NBS for food production (i.e., edible NBS). Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to present existing NBS tools through the eyes of productive urban landscapes. We reviewed 32 projects related to NBS and 50 tools were identified and characterised. Then, the 6 tools already available, and providing indicators, were further analysed in terms of their format and knowledge domains. Our main conclusion demonstrates that there is a lack of tools capable of supporting users for planning and implementing edible NBS, calculating the food potential of the city and/or of individual edible NBS, including the needed resources for implementation and operation (water, nutrients, energy), and assessing their urban design value, environmental and socio-economic impacts. And when they do exist, there is a resistance to share the models and equations behind the tools to allow other projects to reuse or validate them, fact which is contrary to Open Science principles stood up by many research public agencies.

scholarly journals Public Research and Innovation Infrastructure of the Republic of Moldova: Challenges and Opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 421-430
Author(s):  
Igor Cojocaru ◽  
Alfreda Rosca ◽  
Andrej Rusu ◽  
Mihail Guzun
Keyword(s):  
Open Science ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Innovation Sector ◽  
The Republic

Currently the science and innovation area of the Republic of Moldova is undergoing an extensive process of transformation aiming to increase the effectiveness, to facilitate the inclusion of national science into the ERA. Taking into account that the European integration is a major priority for the Republic of Moldova, the public research and innovation sector should comply with the best European and international practices. In this regard, the Republic of Moldova developed Research Strategy till 2020 that provides enhancing the quality and efficiency of administrative processes for implementation of the best innovative measures aiming at the development of human, institutional and infrastructure capabilities. In actual conditions, it is important to align with the European practices, in special with the policies promoted by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), which has a key role in policy-making on research infrastructures in Europe, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) – a cloud for research data in Europe, background, policy information, events and publications, ERRIS (Engage in the Romanian Research Infrastructures System) - platform for research infrastructures, research & technological services, etc. Nowadays, for science and innovation area of the Republic of Moldova is necessary to build tools for fostering the continuous dialogue between science, Government, society, stimulating the private sector access to research infrastructure, scientific laboratories and results, creating the appropriate conditions for facilitation the process of actual challenges turning into opportunities.

scholarly journals An open toolkit for tracking open science partnership implementation and impact

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1442 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Richard Gold ◽  
Sarah E. Ali-Khan ◽  
Liz Allen ◽  
Lluis Ballell ◽  
Manoel Barral-Netto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Survey Form ◽  
The Impact

Serious concerns about the way research is organized collectively are increasingly being raised. They include the escalating costs of research and lower research productivity, low public trust in researchers to report the truth, lack of diversity, poor community engagement, ethical concerns over research practices, and irreproducibility. Open science (OS) collaborations comprise of a set of practices including open access publication, open data sharing and the absence of restrictive intellectual property rights with which institutions, firms, governments and communities are experimenting in order to overcome these concerns. We gathered two groups of international representatives from a large variety of stakeholders to construct a toolkit to guide and facilitate data collection about OS and non-OS collaborations. Ultimately, the toolkit will be used to assess and study the impact of OS collaborations on research and innovation. The toolkit contains the following four elements: 1) an annual report form of quantitative data to be completed by OS partnership administrators; 2) a series of semi-structured interview guides of stakeholders; 3) a survey form of participants in OS collaborations; and 4) a set of other quantitative measures best collected by other organizations, such as research foundations and governmental or intergovernmental agencies. We opened our toolkit to community comment and input. We present the resulting toolkit for use by government and philanthropic grantors, institutions, researchers and community organizations with the aim of measuring the implementation and impact of OS partnership across these organizations. We invite these and other stakeholders to not only measure, but to share the resulting data so that social scientists and policy makers can analyse the data across projects.

scholarly journals Identifying the challenges in implementing open science

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Ali-Khan ◽  
Antoine Jean ◽  
E. Richard Gold
Keyword(s):  
Innovation System ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Meeting Report ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Gates Foundation ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Policy Communities ◽  
Science Leadership

Areas of open science (OS) policy and practice are already relatively well-advanced in several countries and sectors through the initiatives of some governments, funders, philanthropy, researchers and the community. Nevertheless, the current research and innovation system, including in the focus of this report, the life sciences, remains weighted against OS. In October 2017, thought-leaders from across the world gathered at an Open Science Leadership Forum in the Washington DC office of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to share their views on what successful OS looks like. We focused on OS partnerships as this is an emerging model that aims to accelerate science and innovation. These outcomes are captured in a first meeting report: Defining Success in Open Science. On several occasions, these conversations turned to the challenges that must be addressed and new policies required to effectively and sustainably advance OS practice. Thereupon, in this report, we describe the concerns raised and what is needed to address them supplemented by our review of the literature, and suggest the stakeholder groups that may be best placed to begin to take action. It emerges that to be successful, OS will require the active engagement of all stakeholders: while the research community must develop research questions, identify partners and networks, policy communities need to create an environment that is supportive of experimentation by removing barriers. This report aims to contribute to ongoing discussions about OS and its implementation. It is also part of a step-wise process to develop and mobilize a toolkit of quantitative and qualitative indicators to assist global stakeholders in implementing high value OS collaborations. Currently in co-development through an open and international process, this set of measures will allow the generation of needed evidence on the influence of OS partnerships on research, innovation, and critical social and economic goals.

scholarly journals The Gardiner SkyPark: continuous productive urban landscape as infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijan Ghazizaden
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Community Life ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Productive Urban Landscapes ◽  
The City ◽  
Research And Design

The concept of Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPUL) was introduced by Andrè Vilijoen and Katrin Bohn in 2004. This thesis project tests the application of the CPUL concept to Toronto, a densely developed North America winter city. It examines: 1. The challenges, limitations and opportunities of an existing high-rise city fabric as a platform for creating new coherent, continuous and active pedestrianized landscapes by reclaiming unused and under-utilized spaces. 2. The implications of merging reclaimed spaces with existing circulation arteries and infrastructure, to improve, invigorate and strengthen connections in the city. Through an iterative research and design exercise, which discovered many hidden potentials within the CPUL framework, this project is able to demonstrate how a linear park system is capable of seamlessly reconnecting a severed Toronto’s waterfront to the dense downtown core. Such projects can substantially benefit community life, and offer new and meaningful forms of urban connectivity that are sustainable and productive.

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