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Integrated backcasting modeling system BackES
Advancing optimal management practices and designing relevant policy interventions for maintaining ecosystem services (ES) that satisfy local demand is a challenge in fragile mountain ecosystems. Under OPERAs, a backcasting framework (BackES) is being developed that develops and evaluates a variety
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URBAN NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: PERSPECTIVES, LESSONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FROM NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, UK
This report promotes and develops the idea of urban nature-based solutions as a new policy agenda that can both serve to support the kinds of access to, appreciation of, and enhanced well-being from nature that has been brought into the spotlight by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the
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Phusicos NbS Governance Game
The newly developed PHUSICOS simulation is a serious game. It was developed as part of Work Package 6 on learning innovation and aims to simulate the complex governance setting of stakeholders. Serious games owe their name to the fact that they are designed with a purpose that goes beyond the
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Mapping and assessment of ecosystem services in Natura 2000 sites of the Niraj - Tarnava Mica region
The goal of the project is to assess and map the most important ecosystem services of the area based on the perception, valuation and utilization of the services by the local residents.
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Nature-based solutions State of the art in EU-funded projects
This document summarises outcomes from the EC individual expert reports delivered through its ‘Valorisation of NbS Projects’ initiative. EU research and innovation projects were scanned for results pertaining to key areas such as biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation (including
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Lahti Health Forest Informational Brochure
Curious about the lay of the land at Lahti's new health forest? Then check out this new brochure which tells you what you will discover there and the many benefits of a guided experience in nature. Publication Date: 06 Sep 2023 Author(s): Suutari Taru
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GLOBAL YOUTH NATURE-BASED POSITION STATEMENT ON SOLUTIONS
This statement represents the first-ever, globally representative and collectively crafted position from young people on “Nature-based Solutions”. We are addressing decision-makers and key stakeholders, to present our own views, priorities, and demands from the NbS conversation which,
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Urban Nature Atlas
The Urban Nature Atlas was developed in 2017 as an output of the Naturvation project (NATure-based URban innoVATION, a Horizon 2020 research project). The Atlas sought to collect evidence on nature-based solutions in order to provide a basis for the analysis of socio-economic and innovation
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Resource List: Criteria and Requirements for High-Quality Nature-based Solutions
This review includes a list of selected resources that discuss the criteria and the requirements of high-quality nature-based solutions (NbS). The list consists of resources that offer a comprehensive approach to NbS quality considerations and documents that focus on specific aspects of NbS quality
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Method Factsheet - Smartphone App
The MapNat tool is designed to be applied by citizens and scientists who are interested in mapping the use of mainly cultural, but also some provisional and regulating, services and disservices. MapNat enables its users to map ES in three different ways as points, lines or areas on a map on their
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Business Ecosystems Training
Business Ecosystems Training (BET) course is a freely-available capacity building program to increase the knowledge and understanding of the links between ecosystems and business. The objective of BET course is to equip companies with the skills they need to better manage their impacts and
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Exploring Experiences of Nature-Based Solutions through International Cities
Explore experiences of nature-based solutions through a selection of posters on Melbourne, Cape Town, Boston, Mexico City, Tianjin and Winnipeg.
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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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GIZ ValuES - Methods Navigator
Ecosystem service assessments should be ‘issue-driven’. They can be done to gain new insights, to make a strong argument, to start a discussion, to help settle a negotiation, to enhance a planning process, or to reach a decision. There are many different methods for doing an assessment. Helping
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Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment (ToSIA)
ToSIA is a decision support tool that was originally developed for the forestry sector, which analyses sustainability impacts of Forest-Wood-Chains (FWCs) and value chains related to resource use. Value chains are chains of production processes that are linked with products. ToSIA compares
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CAPACITY-BUILDING MATERIALS AND EDUCATIONAL PACK IN LOCAL LANGUAGES
A set of capacity building materials has been produced to raise awareness and understanding of the definition of nature-based solutions adopted by the UN Environment Assembly in 2022. Materials include infographics that contain the full meaning of the definition and a video that introduces
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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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Innovation Pathways for Urban Forests
Urban forest is an emerging concept which not only incorporates trees, but other vegetation in streets, parks, plazas, river embankments, wetlands, railway corridors, community gardens, and on buildings as well as the soil and water that supports them. Urban forests have been around for generations
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Map viewer (Web Map Service)
Share your georeferenced contents with this map visualization tool
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