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Gaps and opportunities to sustainable urban development through nature-based solutions Policy Brief

The multifunctional character of nature-based solutions (NbS) enables them to provide responses to both social and environmental challenges. Analysis has shown that there is significant potential for NbS to help achieve sustainable urban development objectives. Nonetheless, challenges for

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The Health Benefits of Natural Spaces

The city of the future needs to be a green city.​ Several scientific studies associate green spaces​ -​​urban parks, gardens, tree-lined streets or forests, among others-​ with numerous health benefits​ ​in​ ​adults, such as​ ​a reduction of​ ​stress, ​a ​longer​ ​life​ ​or ​a ​better general​ ​and

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En-Crops Blumenschön

EN-CROPS Blumenschoen (Liquid), the liquid version of En-Crops products adds important NUTRIENTS, GEO MINERALS AND PLANT EXTRACTS to the soil and to living organisms in the soil. En-Crops Blumenschoen (Liquid) is mixed with water and applied through existing watering systems.

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NbS Financing in Front Runner Cities

Connecting Nature aims to support cities in securing financing to support the large-scale implementation of nature-based solutions. Within a relatively short period of three years, Connecting Nature has had a major impact in raising the knowledge and awareness of partner cities about alternative

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Community Geotimeline

Online tool for harnessing and assessing community capital and resilience.

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Green spaces & urban forests during the COVID-19 pandemic

Clearing House launched a survey with the objective of looking at how the COVID-19 pandemic was changing both, the professional perspective and citizens’ attitude on green spaces and urban forests. In this blog, they bring together different stories looking at the issue from various angles (tag:

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ZÖLD-KÉK INFRASTRUKTÚRA: Zöldinfrastruktúra útmutató - Segédlet zöldinfrastruktúra fejlesztések tervezéséhez, megvalósításához

Az önkormányzati döntéshozatal egyik eszköze a zöldinfrastruktúra-fejlesztés, amely az ökoszisztémák szolgáltatásainak felhasználásával a szürkeinfrastruktúrával ellentétben úgy csökkenti a környezeti és klímakockázatot, javítja a települések alkalmazkodó képességét és a helyi életminőséget, hogy

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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.

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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities

This document sets out a practical, science-based approach to spatial biodiversity assessment and prioritisation, which can be applied at the national level in any country. It is especially useful for countries that are both biodiversity rich and resource constrained, where difficult choices have

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UPSCALING CORPORATE SOLUTIONS FOR BIODIVERSITY

This report seeks to describe the actual levers and modes of action that are successfully being used by business, and also to identify the conditions for their scale-up: the point is how to take or pursue actions of a similar nature at different plants and sites, or in other sectors and businesses

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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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Conceptual & action framework on Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials

The deliverable 2.1, Report knowledge base/action framework Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials, was submitted by EURAC with contributions from TUM, TUC, ABUD, RWI, ISOCARP, KYDON, MUC, LEU, MERANO, COBZ, GLC, SMJV in June 2022. The description of the deliverable is available below and the

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Talking About Our Place

The Talking About Our Place toolkit help a community think about some of the issues their place may be facing, and encourages them to get involved. It will help people: explore what makes their place special recognise what benefits their place provides for identify what issues affect their place or

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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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Mapping to support REDD+ planning and secure multiple benefits: toolbox and tutorials for QGIS and ArcGIS

GIS training materials and tools have been developed for use in planning REDD+ activities that deliver multiple benefits. These resources are designed to assist technical staff to undertake spatial analysis to identify areas suitable for specific REDD+ policies and measures, and which are likely to

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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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Visionary and integrated solutions to improve well-being and health in cities: Clustering Activities - Joint Manifesto

Report The following is a joint manifesto from four sister projects which calls on European cities to launch initiatives that offer visionary and integrated solutions at the intersection of social, cultural, digital and nature-based solutions (NBS) to increase the health and well-being of

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The Common Agricultural Policy can strengthen biodiversity and ecosystem services by diversifying agricultural landscapes

“The Common Agricultural Policy can strengthen biodiversity and ecosystem services by diversifying agricultural landscapes” is based on the combined results of the FARMLAND, APPEAL, CONNECT, EC21C and ECODEAL projects, funded by BiodivERsA and FACCE-JPI. This 4-page brief presents key

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Nature4cities - Participation tool CitizenSay

Involve citizens in your project with our NbS projects participation tool CitizenSay. Are you a policy maker and want to engage and involve multiple stakeholders in your NbS project? Or are you a citizen or a specialist and you want to contribute to developing projects adapted to your needs and

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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

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