NICHES_D4.2.pdf

Policy Gaps and Opportunities for the management of urban water SETS This deliverable D4.2 examines the management of urban water systems in the five NICHES cities – Rotterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Sheffield, and Boston – and assesses how NBS are implemented and embedded in urban policy and planning. It is designed to build a critical basis for T4.3 (co-defining transition pathways) by identifying approaches for restorative NBS implementation within socio-ecological-technological systems. For each city, relevant policy frameworks, government instruments, institutional structures and processes, good practice examples, as well as barriers and enablers have been studied, to define key opportunities and challenges crucial for the introduction of NBS to urban stormwater management.