ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the role of capacity building through international collaboration as a growing approach to improving the nature to city connections and increasing green infrastructure in urban areas. International cooperation for capacity building for nature in cities has many guides, but no one way or rule for achieving it. The food-water-health-disaster risk reduction- pollution nexus affects our ability to manage the urban environment, adapt to environmental change, and create and sustain urban greenspace. The complexity of the human–earth entanglement in urban areas continues to grow, bringing challenges for integrating and sustainably developing nature in cities and urban green infrastructure. Governments need to support local initiatives rather than constrain innovation and action by city mayors and local communities. The experience of municipal participatory budgeting can also be a source for inspiration for novel decision-making procedure at the global level.
