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Nature4Cities - Step-by-step guide
The Step-by-Step Guide helps with the planning and preparation for NbS, to manage the complexities involved, to coordinate the work with multiple actors (experts, researchers, stakeholders and citizens) and to reflect on and monitor the whole process. The steps help create a framework for
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Insight Report: Seizing Business Opportunities in China’s Transition Towards a Nature-positive Economy
This report by The World Economic Forum lays out a clear roadmaps for Chinese companies to seize the business opportunities offered by 15 priority transitions under three socio-economic systems. These transitions are projected to ad $1.9 trillion in business value and could create 88 million jobs
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GrowGreen NbS Co-design Guide
The “GrowGreen NbS co-design Guide”, made by Bipolaire, could be materialised as a tool that guides the NbS co-design process through questions. It is structured similarly as the GCF (Green Cities Framework), based on three main pillars: Planning, Mobilising, and Evaluating. Municipalities that
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Conexus Life-Lab factsheet series - Wetland Lugano, the restoration of an aquatic ecosystem
The Lugano wetland pilot is restoring an aquatic ecosystem lost by urbanization in the south of Buenos Aires. The pilot is led by the city government. It involves key stakeholders to promote social awareness about the benefits that wetlands provide to the community. The enhancement of biodiversity
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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Green infrastructure
Considering the overall goals of the OpenNESS project and its variety of case studies, it is important to have a clear idea about how the concept of green infrastructure can be operationalised in practice, despite its inherent conceptual complexity and ambiguity. The concept of Green Infrastructure
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Physical Activity in Natural Settings Green and Blue Exercise
Exercise interactions with green and blue spaces offer low-cost, non-invasive solutions to public health challenges—particularly around mental health and obesity—and issues around environmental sustainability. Physical Activity in Natural Settings brings together multi-disciplinary, international
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Internet of Nature Podcast
Can nature and technology — long viewed as opposing forces — work together to stabilize our climate, sustain our urban environments, and benefit our health? Internet of Nature Podcast is on a mission to find out. Join Dr. Nadina Galle as she interviews top CEOs & innovators on their
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Ecological Data Wiki
The site is a source for finding ecological datasets and quickly figuring out the best ways to use them. The idea is to use the collaborative knowledge and effort of the entire ecological community to compile this information rather than relying on each scientist to contribute information for their
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GIZ ValuES - Method Profile: Assessing flood prevention potential of wetlands
Wetlands can absorb excess water in cases of river flooding. This method can be used to estimate the retention capacity of wetlands for flood mitigation and thereby protecting downstream inhabitants. For this, the impact of water detention on peak flows is considered, as well as the extent and
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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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Intregrated Biodiversity Management, South Caucasus
Together with our partners, we develop strategies to facilitate the sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystem services across sectoral and administrative boundaries, based on solid data. We contribute to safeguarding the diversity of species and ecosystems for future generations.
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Addressing Climate Change in Cities – Catalogue of urban nature-based solutions
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are solutions that are inspired and supported by nature. They can be used in urban settings to complement or replace "traditional" or "grey" solutions to perform functions, such as thermal insulation and stormwater retention and filtration. Focusing
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Decision support tool : an Integrated green grey framework
Guidance on innovations in green grey infrastructure - costed examples and more, see http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/150672/.
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Natural Capital & Biodiversity Briefing
As the ongoing climate emergency and unbridled human activity continues to have a direct, catastrophic impact on biodiversity, the destruction of habitat and environmental degradation are creating the perfect conditions for diseases like COVID-19 to emerge, and in turn, accelerated, irreversible
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Green, hybrid, or grey disaster risk reduction measures: what shapes public preferences for nature-based solutions?
The OPERANDUM project has the primary aim of reducing risk from hydrometeorological hazards using NbS across Europe. It is unclear what DRR measures at-risk individuals may prefer on the green-hybrid-grey spectrum and what shapes their preferences. This study investigates the other factors,
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Challenges and opportunities of metropolitan agriculture: micro learning online course
Urban and peri-urban agriculture is a matter of growing importance on a territorial scale. It is reflected in actions aimed at reconnecting the urban population to agricultural production and relocating food systems by promoting short circuits. Its development is based on entrepreneurs who carry
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Nat4Wat
Nat4Wat is a free, web-based tool designed to help users select the best nature-based solutions for wastewater treatment and stormwater management. It works by guiding users through a step-by-step process, where they enter information about their water needs and site conditions. The tool then
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Polish NbS Hub in Wroclaw
The establishment of the Hub will allow internal and external collaboration with other cities and organizations across the country to gather and transfer knowledge on nature-based solutions. The Hub's activities will focus on promoting the potential of nature-based solutions to reduce heat
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INTERLACE MOOC on Nature-based Solutions: (3) CO-CREATION as a form of collaborative NbS governance
Urban areas across the globe are facing unprecedented challenges—pollution, climate change, urban sprawl—and traditional solutions are falling short. The INTERLACE project’s Massive Open Online Course showcases how nature-based solutions offer a promising approach to help create resilient,
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Defining and Assessing Success in Mainstreaming
This background paper draws on reviews of the mainstreaming targets and indicators of selected NBSAPs from countries at different stages of their mainstreaming process, and the approaches to assessing the success of mainstreaming biodiversity and other issues into development. Recommendations are
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