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    Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions
    (National Academy of Sciences, 2025) O’Farrell, Patrick; McPhearson, Timon; Frantzeskaki, Niki
    The increasing impacts of societal challenges in cities—including climate change, food and water security, health, and biodiversity loss—underline the need for multifunctional solutions that maximize cobenefits. The majority people, infrastructure, and economic activity is concentrated in cities, making them the global locus for social and economic risks as well as opportunity spaces for solutions. Cities around the world are rapidly investing in nature-based solutions (NbS) to complement, replace, or improve upon technological and engineered approaches to infrastructure-based solutions ( 1 – 5 ). To match the urgency of climate-related disruptions, costs, and impacts ( 6 ), NbS adoption and implementation must be accelerated. Yet, despite the demonstrated potential of NbS, uptake and knowledge is uneven globally ( 7 ). Knowledge on NbS in published literature is geographically biased from the Global North with less known from Global South regions ( 1 , 7 , 8 ). Even with proliferation of literature reviews on NBS, there remains a gap in studies that assess the state of knowledge in the literature and provide opportunity to augment insights from non-English literature and experiences from Global South contexts. Here, we help fill the gap in Global South knowledge assessment by combining a review of NbS review papers with a regionally focused expert review in diverse global regions to identify similarities and differences in barriers to NbS adoption and practice while synthesizing critical ways forward for addressing key challenges to implementation and research.