Enabling new informational landscapes for resolving nature-based solutions literacy and planning in Barcelona Metropolitan Area

This paper builds upon the necessity of developing sound informational landscapes to enable NBS planning in metropolitan areas. Information literacy was enhanced through a complex participatory process in Barcelona Metropolitan Area, aimed at detecting existing knowledge, potential barriers for implementing NBS and identifying opportunities for action. Communication and storytelling as a transversal process accompanied the whole process from the beginning. Participatory informational maps were produced, as the core of the co-design and co-learning dynamics. Results showed gaps mainly related to NBS literacy, biodiversity and cultural ecosystem services. Furthermore, actors with different interests shared dissimilar NBS knowledge, interests and priorities over territory. We conclude highlighting the importance of the evidence-based planning, information generators and NBS literacy to enforce the NBS understanding, preservation and implementation in metropolitan areas. Keywords Participatory process; Information; Communication; Knowledge; Mapping; Actors; Nature-based solutions literacy.