CONNECTING NATURE CITY REPORT MALAGA, Urban garden in Lagunillas

The City of Malaga is implementing measures to improve the environment and thus also improve the quality of life of its citizens. The city is exploring ways to restore an ecosystem damaged by the impact of economic activity and through the Connecting Nature project, learn more about the benefits of this framework and its methodology. The city had already developed some nature-based solution but without applying the framework of the Connecting Nature project This innovative framework involves a series of innovations in the way of facing and implementing nature-based solution projects, introducing new elements such as co-production, co-creation, governance, financial and business models, technical solutions, impact assessment, nature based entreprises and reflective monitoring when creating, planning, executing, and maintaining those projects. The connecting nature framework seeks to optimize environmental, economic, and social resources by applying its own work methodology.

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Malaga is a Mediterranean city located in the South of Spain, with a green and blue environment typical from the Mediterranean coastal cities. During many years Malaga was mainly known as a touristic destination due to the diversity of its environment offering beaches and mountains landscapes but also because the city has a mild climate throughout the year. For more than three decades Malaga has been relying on tourism and construction as the main engine of the local economic activity, building hotel and residential developments with little regards to the environment. In the past two decades consciousness about the environment has hit many social actors who have seen the need to evolve the productive model towards one that is more respectful of the environment. Cities are today human ecosystems with the best opportunities for social, economic, and environmental opportunities but at the same time they face important inequalities and some of the biggest sustainability challenges.

malagaconnecting-nature-framework-report.pdf