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The Health and Social Benefits of Nature and Biodiversity Protection
Protecting nature and biodiversity is helping to tackle urgent health and social challenges across Europe. This IEEP study shows how urban, suburban and rural green areas bring multiple and often overlooked benefits to society.
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Ecosystem Services Mapping - Oppla Webinar video
This webinar was the first of two sessions in a series, beginning the topic of ecosystem services mapping. Nynke Schulp spoke about the reliability of ecosystem services mapping, describing how methods of ecosystem services mapping have improved in recent years. Anis Guelmami spoke about
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Human-Nature Interactions: Perspectives on Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Urban agglomerations expose citizens to ever-increasing risks from heat, air pollution, noise stress, and reduced nature connectedness. Concurrently, accumulating evidence suggests various health benefits by exposure to urban natural spaces. Existing research suggests an array of benefits of
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Method Factsheet - Shadow Pricing
Shadow pricing is highly appropriate to elicit monetary values and anthropocentric instrumental values of nature's benefits. When society sets environmental targets on the provision of non-marketed ecosystem services it is an implicit valuation of the services. The shadow price is the marginal
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VÍZGAZDÁLKODÁS: Természetes vízmegtartó megoldások a települési klímaalkalmazkodásban
A 2018 és 2021 között megvalósult LIFE-MICACC projekt célja az önkormányzatok integráló és koordináló szerepének megerősítése az éghajlatváltozáshoz való alkalmazkodás érdekében, az alábbiakban közzétett tudásanyagok a projekt keretén belül készültek. Az anyagok első csoportja az önkormányzatoknak
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State of the Art and Latest Advances in Exploring Business Models for Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer multiple solutions to urban challenges simultaneously, but realising funding for NbS remains a challenge. When the concept of NbS for societal challenges was first defined by the EC in 2017, financing was recognised as one of the major challenges to its
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Hydro Profi Line®
A unique new type of proven planter system for greening of impervious surfaces. Solitary containers/flower pots as well as areal. Horizontal as well as vertical. Indoors as well as outdoors. Reducing water consumption by up to 80% and enabling possibility for exchange of all species and sices (up
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Biodiversity, natural capital and the economy
Nature underpins all economic activities and human well-being. It is the world’s most important asset. Yet humanity is destroying biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing significant but often overlooked risks to the economy, the financial sector and the well-being of current and future
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CONEXUS Policy Brief 9 - Connectivity for people and biodiversity Learning from the green infrastructure systems in the City of Bogotá
This policy brief presents lessons for the integration of nature and green space systems in urban and territorial management instruments, based on the experience of the adoption of the Principal Ecological Structure (PES) in the city of Bogotá and the actions for its implementation.
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Connecting Nature WP1 Resources (Deliverable 3)
Resources generated within WP1 of Connecting Nature, included within the online toolkit (Deliverable 3)
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Co$ting Nature
Co$ting Nature is a web based tool for natural capital accounting and analysing the ecosystem services provided by natural environments (i.e. nature's benefits), identifying the beneficiaries of these services and assessing the impacts of human interventions. This Policy Support System (PSS)
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Website: Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework EU Support
Explore the resources of Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework - EU Support website to keep up to date on the agenda and learn from a wealth of scientific resources about biodiversity.
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Nature-based Solutions in Action: Lessons from the Frontline
The 13 case studies in this report have been contributed by environment, development and local community organisations. They show NbS in action in a wide range of contexts, from a Farmers’ Seed Network in China that supports agroecology by conserving traditional seeds, to large-scale watershed
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Integrated Assessment and Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Guidelines and Experiences
As the ecosystem service concept has become more widely recognised, so the number of biophysical, socio-cultural and monetary methods available to assess ecosystem services has increased. There is relatively little guidance on how to select and combine these methods into hybrid approaches that
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Research 2 Practice
Methodology for translating research problems via societal challenges into applicable solutions.
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Conexus key learning factsheet series - Checklist for Nature-based Solutions Monitoring & Indicators
Monitoring & Indicators (M&I) help document and evaluate the process, progress, performance, and impact of the implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NbS), as well as track whether targets are being met. To support the uptake of M&I in planning practice, this factsheet provides a
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Policy needs and opportunities for operationalising the concept of ecosystem services - EU assessment
This report presents the results of an EU policy audit that assesses the current level of integration of ecosystem services and natural capital into the current EU policy framework. It also identifies key gaps, needs and opportunities for further integration, including policy instruments that can
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PhusicosVR - NbS demonstrators in Virtual Reality
The H2020 project PHUSICOS focused on demonstration sites for NbS implementations to reduce hydrometrological risks in rural environments. These implementations are difficult enough to envision for professionals familiar with them, such as landscape architects and infrastructure engineers, but for
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Technical guidance on the climate proofing of infrastructure in the period 2021-2027
The new technical guidance on climate-proofing of infrastructure projects has been developed by the Commission in close cooperation with potential implementing partners for InvestEU along with the EIB Group. It is primarily intended for project promoters and experts involved in the preparation
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The importance of protecting human health in the EU climate policies
As anthropogenic climate change continues to escalate, its detrimental efects on human health are becoming pronounced, demanding urgent transformative actions from European policymakers. This policy brief underscores the importance of protecting human health in the EU climate change policies. As
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