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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.
European Long-Term Ecosystem and Socio-Ecological Research Infrastructure (eLTER H2020)
The overall aim of the eLTER project is to advance the European network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms to provide highest quality services for multiple use of a distributed research infrastructure.
Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Best Practice Catalogue
This Catalogue highlights the best practices identified in the 6 metropolises associated with MADRE, in terms of farmers’ innovation, social innovation, consumer innovation, academic research, territorial innovation and transnational innovation.
Understanding the potential for private sector investment in natural capital – lessons from the Spey catchment, Scotland
There is a growing recognition amongst policy-makers, conservation NGOs and the private sector that funding for land management needs to be increased and diversified to protect and restore biodiversity and natural capital in Scotland. However, effective mechanisms for enabling private investment by
Leveraging Public Programmes with Socio-Economic and Development Objectives to Support Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems
The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 recognises that biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services that are essential for human well-being. The fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook underscores that biodiversity is still being lost and ecosystems
VÍZGAZDÁLKODÁS: Dombvidéki természetalapú vízmegtartási megoldások
A Magyar Mérnöki Kamara Kiadványsorozatában megjelent mérnöki útmutató egy segédlet a települési szintű klíma adaptációhoz. A szöveg összegyűjti és rendszerezni azokat a fogalmakat és ismereteket, amik szükségesek a települési szintű vízgazdálkodási rendszerek kialakításához. Bemutatja a
EDGES - Ecologically Scaled Edge Responses: Patterns, Mechanisms and Predictive Modelling
Edge effects are among the key processes affecting biological populations and communities in fragmented landscapes, mediating landscape-scale patterns in species richness and abundance. This has been the subject of intense research over the past decades, demonstrating that edge-responses are
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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Indicators for ecosystem services
An indicator is a quantitative measure which represents a complex system or phenomenon. Indicators are key elements in policies for goal formulation and evaluation of achievements, as well as simplification of information and communication. There is a long tradition of applying indicators in a
Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks
An Object-Oriented Bayesian Network (OOBN) is a probabilistic model the uses an intuitive graphical representation to specify dependence and independence relations in a problem domain. It has nodes that represent variables which can represent observed/unobserved quantities, effects, causes of
Report on Cultivating Cities' Challenge Workshops, Urban Morphology and SWOT analyses
The Challenge Workshop in each cultivating city was the first opportunity for different stakeholders to come together to get to know each other and to learn about GoGreenRoutes. During the Challenge Workshop, stakeholders were invited to create a vision for the upcoming seedbed and NBS
TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers
TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers calls on local policy makers to understand the value of their natural capital and the services it provides and apply a focus on nature's benefits in local policy areas such as urban management, spatial planning and protected areas management.
CO-IMPACT tool
Developed within the Connecting Nature Project, CO-IMPACT is a decision-support tool allowing officers and cities to create impact assessment plans for their NbS/projects. The main objective is to make the process of building a baseline and impact assessment plan straightforward and simple for
OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Human well-being
Human well-being (HWB) is a central component of the ecosystem services (ES) framework and in fact its major endpoint in terms of what the ES concept aims at. The question of what is meant by, and what specifically constitutes, HWB, is of major importance in any application of the ES concept.
Products providing guidance on urban tree monitoring
In this CLEARINGHOUSE post you can find a list of USDA`s (US Department of Agriculture) new guidance products on urban tree monitoring. These guides are designed around the collection of longitudinal field data – tracking the fate of individual trees – and will enable urban tree professionals to
Natural environments, psychosocial health, and health behaviors in a crisis – A scoping review of the literature in the COVID-19 context
The COVID-19 outbreak led to major restrictions globally, affecting people’s psychosocial health and their health behaviors. Thus, the purpose of this scoping review was to summarize the available research regarding nature and health in the COVID-19 context. Overall, the findings indicate that
Guidance for national biodiversity indicator development and use
Indicators can be defined as a measure based on verifiable data that conveys information about more than itself. Biodiversity indicators are a central part of effective decision-making and adaptive measurement. This guidance document produced with the support of the Biodiversity Indicators
A practical guide to using co-production for nature-based solutions (+ready-to-use materials)
This guidebook offers a practical approach and toolbox for designing and implementing your own co-production processes. It presents co-production as a new governance approach for working on nature-based solutions in cities and offers a practical framework for designing your own co-production
A concise guideline to economic valuation and social cost-benefit analysis
In this guideline we give a concise overview of economic valuation methods for measuring ecosystem service values, and their pros and cons. We also discuss essential elements of social cost-benefit analyses that aim to incorporate ecosystem service values.
NbS Hubs site visits Posters
During spring 2024, Hubs organised local site visits in their regions for a wide range of stakeholders. 10 NbS hubs represented their experiences of the site visit to a local NbS in a poster. These posters summarise the main outcomes from these site visit, including a short description of the NbS
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