Katharina Rochell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4425475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Rochell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Rochell |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6248-3584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Planting Trees, Sowing Dissent: Understanding resistance to nature-based solutions in urban Africa
Different shades of green: How transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities
Nature – based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being positioned within global discourses concerning how urban sustainability challenges can be addressed. To better understand to what extent, how, by whom and with what potential implications NBS are promoted in urban Africa, this paper focuses on transnational actors and presents a dataset covering 40 NBS initiatives in 57 cities across 19 African countries. A framing analysis is undertaken to un…
Nature for resilience reconfigured: Global-to-local translation of frames in Africa
Globally, various frames of urban nature circulate, each emphasising particular challenges and natural solutions in the climate context. Yet which actors and dynamics shape their translation to the African context remains unclear. This paper explores the global-to-local translation process of frames through interventions funded by transnational actors, conceptualised as agents of policy transfer. Critical scholarship has observed that urban adapt…
Contextual factors for transnational municipal network's local environmental action: A study of Iclei Africa's LAB Wetlands SA Programme
While the existence and significance of transnational municipal networks (TMNs) in the realm of environmental governance have been well documented, the implementation and impacts of their local programmes, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, remain underexplored. This paper contributes to addressing this gap of knowledge by examining what obstructs or facilitates TMNs’ local actions and the extent to which they can catalyse wider transformative imp…
Resilience planning under information scarcity in fast growing African cities and towns: The CityRAP approach
Urban planners seeking to enhance resilience contend with the complexity of interdependent systems and severe gaps in data and information. This complexity-capacity gap is most evident in smaller, rapidly growing cities. Experience in Africa shows these are also the cities where most risk is accruing and where the majority of population growth is felt. Bridging this gap to build resilience requires new decision-support tools that can operate on d…
Nature for resilience reconfigured: Global-to-local translation of frames in Africa
Globally, various frames of urban nature circulate, each emphasising particular challenges and natural solutions in the climate context. Yet which actors and dynamics shape their translation to the African context remains unclear. This paper explores the global-to-local translation process of frames through interventions funded by transnational actors, conceptualised as agents of policy transfer. Critical scholarship has observed that urban adapt…
Resilience planning under information scarcity in fast growing African cities and towns: The CityRAP approach
Urban planners seeking to enhance resilience contend with the complexity of interdependent systems and severe gaps in data and information. This complexity-capacity gap is most evident in smaller, rapidly growing cities. Experience in Africa shows these are also the cities where most risk is accruing and where the majority of population growth is felt. Bridging this gap to build resilience requires new decision-support tools that can operate on d…
Contextual factors for transnational municipal network's local environmental action: A study of Iclei Africa's LAB Wetlands SA Programme
While the existence and significance of transnational municipal networks (TMNs) in the realm of environmental governance have been well documented, the implementation and impacts of their local programmes, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, remain underexplored. This paper contributes to addressing this gap of knowledge by examining what obstructs or facilitates TMNs’ local actions and the extent to which they can catalyse wider transformative imp…
Different shades of green: How transnational actors frame nature as a solution to sustainability challenges in African cities
Nature – based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being positioned within global discourses concerning how urban sustainability challenges can be addressed. To better understand to what extent, how, by whom and with what potential implications NBS are promoted in urban Africa, this paper focuses on transnational actors and presents a dataset covering 40 NBS initiatives in 57 cities across 19 African countries. A framing analysis is undertaken to un…
Nature for resilience reconfigured: Global-to-local translation of frames in Africa
Globally, various frames of urban nature circulate, each emphasising particular challenges and natural solutions in the climate context. Yet which actors and dynamics shape their translation to the African context remains unclear. This paper explores the global-to-local translation process of frames through interventions funded by transnational actors, conceptualised as agents of policy transfer. Critical scholarship has observed that urban adapt…
Planting Trees, Sowing Dissent: Understanding resistance to nature-based solutions in urban Africa
Urban and Rural Development Challenges (4 works) · Environmental planning (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)