A Coruña is a seaside city located in the Ártabro Gulf, north-west of Spain, with a population of 244,000 inhabitants, stunning landscapes and built on over two thousand years of architectural heritage. A Coruña has a diverse economy, mainly based on the service sector, ranging from tourism to port activities, and together with its metropolitan area it houses the headquarters of several major multi-nationals. It is a densely populated and compact city, with a territory of under 40 km2, and with a scarcity of green areas.
NBS Exemplar:
The nature-based solution that the city has been working with is about urban gardening and creating a network of Urban Gardens that can help connect green areas and provide multiple environmental, economic, and social benefits. Urban gardens are small-scale projects that can be up scaled to a citywide level; they’re cost- efficient and they’re aligned with wider scale agendas. They are able to provide benefits at many different levels – enhancing biodiversity and fighting climate change, improving health and wellbeing of citizens, promoting social cohesion, and offering new economic opportunities. They can also help recover and preserve the historical and ethnographic agriculture heritage of the region, which is gradually disappearing in urban areas, and increase the community’s sense of belonging towards the public space.
Some of the societal challenges addressed by this NBS are strengthening social cohesion and public culture, recovering and preserving for the collective memory the historical and ethnographic agriculture heritage and increasing the community’s sense of belonging towards the public space. There is also a will to increase social cohesion, promoting intergenerational and intercultural relationships and helping develop the social skills of people in situations of vulnerability and social and/or labour exclusion. All of these goals are aligned with wider agendas, like the Spanish Urban Agenda or the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The CN Framework, together with the valuable support from project partners, has provided the city with the tools to successfully develop the CN Exemplar in the three phases of Planning, Delivery and Stewardship.
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