Marketplace
- Guidance
- Software
Revitalizing Spaces
Methodology (accompanied by an online platform) for identifying and activating underused spaces through community-led proposals.
- Document
- Guidance
OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Link between biodiversity and ecosystem services
As was stated in the OpenNESS proposal, the quantitative relationship between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services is still poorly understood. It is still unclear under what circumstances an emphasis on ecosystem services in planning and decision making is (conceptually and
- Report
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services A business case for re/insurance
Assessing biodiversity risks is complex as there is a massive underlying collection of risks. To help assess the risks and foster dialogue around biodiversity they have designed a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) Index. It shows that in 20% of all countries, ecosystems are in a fragile
- Policy Brief
Nature-based solutions and their socio-economic benefits for Europe’s recovery
This briefing provides an overview of the wide range of socio-economic benefits that nature-based solutions can achieve alongside addressing the intertwined climate change and biodiversity loss crises. It highlights the central role these solutions can play in achieving the EU’s 2030 commitments
- Consultancy
- Software
Map viewer (Web Map Service)
Share your georeferenced contents with this map visualization tool
- Paper
The multiple values of urban nature: Evidence from 1,000 European nature-based solutions
Urban nature-based solutions can be designed to deliver diverse social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits in parallel. This instills them with the potential to contribute to multiple policy goals simultaneously. Making optimal use of such solutions requires an understanding of the
- Document
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
- Report
NATURE HIRES: How Nature-based Solutions can power a green jobs recovery
Nature Hires: How Nature-Based Solutions Can Power A Green Jobs Recovery, published today, confirms the potential of Nature-based Solutions to provide job-intense economic recovery while having a multiplier effect in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. As we entered 2020, the dual global
- Report
Policy and Planning Toolkit for Urban Green Justice
Based on qualitative interview data collected in 40 cities across Western Europe, the United States and Canada, the report presents a summary and analysis of 50 policy tools and policies that fight displacement and gentrification while also improving the accessibility and inclusiveness of green
- Guidance
Guidelines for co-designing and co-implementing green infrastructure in urban regeneration processes proGIreg Del. 2.10
These practical guidelines offer general and transferrable guidance on how to initiate, steer and organize collaborative co-design processes for local NbS, together with multi-dimensionalstakeholders in any given city. They target anyone aiming to lead, organise or facilitate
- Document
- Training
Cities Alive: Green Building Envelope
Can retrofitting cityscapes with vegetation improve the health and well-being of urban citizens? Can we use green facades to capture renewable energy and drive sustainability? Experts from eight skill networks around the world came together in Berlin in 2015 to cross-examine these questions using
- Report
Nature-based Solutions in European and National Policy Frameworks
A growing recognition of the value of ecosystem services and the wider socio-economic and socio-cultural benefits provided by natural systems has spurred a shift in urban policy and planning discourse, aiming to integrate these considerations into decision-making processes. The review finds current
- Report
NetworkNature Annual Event Report 2023: Enabling transformation through and for Nature-based Solutions
The report summarises the key outcomes of the NetworkNature Annual Event 2023 “Enabling transformation through and for Nature-based Solutions”, which took place on 8th June 2023, at the Flagey Building in Brussels and brought together more than 150 participants to discuss the transformative nature
- Policy Brief
Challenges and enablers to financing Nature-based Solutions in Europe
Raising knowledge and awareness about alternative financing and business models for large-scale implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in European cities has been one of the major impacts of Horizon 2020 project Connecting Nature. The cities of Genk (BE), Glasgow (UK) and Poznan (PL) are
- Report
Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Sustainable Development Goals
This report argues that nature-based solutions can contribute to achieving the SDGs because they often address public interest objectives and sustainability dimensions at the same time. This makes nature-based solutions effective instruments for addressing sustainability-related challenges in an
- Dataset
HABEaS - Hotspot Areas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
HABEaS stands for Hotspot Areas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and is a free online geographic information system that provides information on biodiversity and ecosystem services to stakeholders in the Mediterranean Basin. Currently, it covers Portugal and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Report
Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Biodiversity
Nature-based solutions contribute to responding to biodiversity challenges through conserving nature, restoring nature, and mobilising people’s ability to thrive with nature. In the meantime, urban policies and strategies that aim to address biodiversity loss also hold great potential to drive the
- Document
NetworkNature & PHUSICOS Online Event Agenda: NbS private sector upscaling and capacity building
This is the agenda for the NetworkNature & PHUSICOS Online Event.
- Document
- Training
Method Factsheet - Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RULSE)
The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) is an empirical erosion model recognised as a standard method to calculate the average risk of erosion on arable land. It developed from the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) developed in the US Department of Agriculture and has other similar
- Document
- Guidance
Curatorial Planning
Methodology for formulating a shared local vision using a systematic "transversal approach".
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