Governance of Public-private Community partnerships for RIvers and WETlands Restoration

Address the challenges and solutions to improve governance in public-social-private partnerships (Quadruple helix) to increase community role for restoration and management of rivers, wetlands and peatlands, as core components of the blue-green infrastructure from national to local level.

Innovation focuses on Public-private governance in nature restoration, and partners include key specialized non-profits, together with authorities willing to co-design policy innovation visions for long-term transformational change. The proposal uses PSPs to align and redesign policies, strengthen long-term stewardship of rivers and wetlands via community engagement, co-creation, co-production (including volunteers and community workers) citizen-science evaluation, social entrepreneurship for nature based solutions.