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Sustainable Water Management - Treatment Wetlands Design
Nature-based solutions like constructed/treatment wetlands, can play an essential role for the water pollution control at urban scale and for reducing the flooding risk while providing positive effects on biodiversity, social acceptance and economics.
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MAINSTREAMING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS Climate Change
This report specifically addresses mainstreaming nature-based solutions for solving the climate crisis in cities. Nature-based solutions are increasingly integrated in urban development practices. They have the potential to effectively address the climate crisis. These ‘natural climate solutions’
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Urban Nature European Assessment Maps
These maps show the potential of nature-based solutions to address climate change adaptation and mitigation across 775 European cities. A set of tools using open-source GIS-based modelling, was used to quantify two benefits of urban nature-based solutions (i.e. heat mitigation and carbon storage)
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UNCCD Urban-rural linkages and ecosystem restoration
This working paper from the UN proposes an urban-rural linkage perspective in relation to land and ecosystem restoration at a time of heightened urgency on multiple fronts at local, national and international levels. The combined impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss land degradation, and
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Livecast on Financing Nature in Cities
Cities face many challenges such as climate change and pandemics, more so as they get denser. Nature-based solutions can help address many of these challenges and are therefore both a cost and space-effective solution. Urban nature not only provides biodiversity but also contributes to climate
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VÍZGAZDÁLKODÁS: Innovatív vízgazdálkodási megoldások gyűjteménye
Az Innovatív vízgazdálkodási megoldások gyűjteménye olyan fejlesztések, termékek, szolgáltatások adatait gyűjti össze, amelyek ökoszisztéma alapú segítséget nyújthatnak az éghajlatváltozás hatására megjelent térségi és települési vizekhez kapcsolódó problémák kezeléséhez és megoldásához. A
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Seedbed Intervention:Burgas
Burgas organised its seedbed intervention in close proximity to one of the two pilot areas. The green area between “Gurko“ parking lot and Oborishte street is the pilot site for the GoGreenRoutes project in Burgas. It is located in an area of the city centre which is heavily built with large and
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CONEXUS Policy Brief 1 - Barcelona’s strategies to increase and enhance urban green infrastructure
This Policy Brief presents Barcelona’s strategies for increasing and improving urban green infrastructure. Renaturing cities is essential for adapting urban areas to climate change. For this reason, in 2013, Barcelona initiated its first “Green and Biodiversity Plan 2020,” followed by the “Urban
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Not Simply Green: Nature-Based Solutions as a Concept and Practical Approach for Sustainability Studies and Planning Agendas in Cities
The concept of a nature-based solution (NbS) has been developed in order to operationalize an ecosystem services approach within spatial planning policies and practices, to fully integrate the ecological dimension, and, at the same time, to address current societal challenges in cities. It exceeds
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Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities: the Power of Nature-based Solutions
Despite being engines of development, innovation and interaction, cities can also exacerbate some of the world's most serious environmental and socio-economic challenges. It is therefore necessary that cities are planned and designed with nature in mind. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are
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Accelerating business solutions for Climate and Nature Report I: Mapping nature-based solutions and natural climate solutions
Nature-based solutions (NbS), can help to deliver up to 37% of solutions to achieve the Paris climate goal, as well as the potential to help address other societal challenges while being good for business and people. Yet, to scale up investment in Nature-based Solutions, business requires clarity
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CONEXUS Policy Brief 9 - Connectivity for people and biodiversity Learning from the green infrastructure systems in the City of Bogotá
This policy brief presents lessons for the integration of nature and green space systems in urban and territorial management instruments, based on the experience of the adoption of the Principal Ecological Structure (PES) in the city of Bogotá and the actions for its implementation.
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Infographic: Horizon2020 Nature-based Solutions Projects
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are inspired and supported by nature, they are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience; such solutions bring more, and more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes
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CLEVER Regional Solutions Catalogue
The CLEVER Regional Solutions Catalogue seeks to elevate the role of nature-based solutions (NbS) across the urban landscape. It aims to inspire uptake and continued energy for implementing Nature-based Solutions that meet the varied needs and requirements of modern cities.
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Making Ecosystem-based Adaptation Effective A Framework for Defining Qualification Criteria and Quality Standards
Many organizations, including members of the Friends of EbA network (FEBA) 11 have gained both conceptual and practical experience in designing and implementing EbA measures in various regions, ecosystems, and levels of governance. These experiences provide a rich source of lessons and are a good
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"Geomatics for a Sustainable environment" continuing education and summer school at the University of Geneva
As part of its continuing education program, the University of Geneva proposes a new Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) called «Geomatics for a Sustainable Environment» in English. The instructor-led teachings will take place as a Geneva summer school from 4 to 15 September 2017. Several
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A Green School is a Healthy School
The main goal of this learning scenario is to help students realize that the school environment, where they spend a lot of time, is very important for their health, well-being, concentration and studying efficiency. The aim is also to help students become more conscious about the natural
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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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Local Ecological Footprinting Tool (LEFT)
LEFT presents a simple yet effective method for mapping ecological important landscapes beyond protected areas. The method uses existing globally available web-based databases and models to provide an ecological score based on five key ecological features (biodiversity, fragmentation, threat,
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