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Community Organizing Toolkit on Ecosystem Restoration

Ecosystem degradation has reached the far corners of our planet from our precious rainforests to our priceless reefs. Irresponsible human activities have caused and exacerbated our climate crisis and ecosystem degradation, forcing us to cope with biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, dramatic

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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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Innovative tools for collaborative forest management

Enhance forest management through understanding the forest resources, identifying conditions for resource mobilization and by knowledge sharing among stakeholders for multi-partner forest management.

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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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Nature-based Solutions in European and National Policy Frameworks

A growing recognition of the value of ecosystem services and the wider socio-economic and socio-cultural benefits provided by natural systems has spurred a shift in urban policy and planning discourse, aiming to integrate these considerations into decision-making processes. The review finds current

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The Urban Butterfly Effect

"The Urban Butterfly Effect” a policy brief with recommendations for national governments to accelerate urban efforts to help them achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2030 Action Targets. This policy brief is a response to the call from the Plan of Action on Subnational Governments

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Naturaleza Transformativa

Naturaleza Transformativa: soluciones para la biodiversidad y las personas en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, emerge como una plataforma digital de conocimiento e innovación para la comunidad científica y de práctica en la región. Está diseñada como un repositorio dinámico de información y experiencias

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The Travelling Fox

In this learning scenario, students are familiarised with the concept of social and environmental justice through the story, photos, and videos of Foxy Travel – a fox who likes travelling across Europe. Via web 2.0 apps (for example: Padlet, MindMup, WordItOut), students analyse Foxy’s “

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Penta-helix Stakeholder Management

Discussion tool to map stakeholder interests and explore ways of negotiating social complexity.

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Sharing-profits methodology for community forest arrangement

The PRI.FOR.MAN Project aimed to refine profit-sharing methodology for community forest management, ensuring fair timber profits for each owner.

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Deliverable 2 Report on the outcomes of the lessons learned, mapping of emerging experiments and expert workshops, leading to a synthesis of the most promising indicators for nature- based solutions

"This Deliverable presents the Connecting Nature Impact Assessment framework and capacity building process whose aim has been to support the mainstreaming of a culture of impact evaluation and evidence based nature-based solutions (NbS) design and implementation in cities. The framework is the

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Urban Nature Explorer

As a web-based interactive platform, the Urban Nature Explorer aims to support the development and the visualisation of alternative nature-based solution scenarios and assess their costs, benefits, and impacts on selected urban sustainability challenges (e.g. climate change, stormwater management

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Water Challenges and Nature-Based Solutions

Growing urban populations around the world are causing a rising demand for water. Concurrently, changing climate is increasing extreme events in cities, from drought to floods, with severe social and economic consequences. This calls for extensive renewal and expansion of urban water infrastructure

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Mapping awareness, perceptions and education on biodiversity and Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in Europe

In ᴇNᴀBʟS, we are starting our common journey by looking at the European landscape of biodiversity and NBS, especially in higher education. One of the main goals of this basic step is to identify the presence of NBS in universities and technical vocational education and training institutions (

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Insight report: BiodiverCities by 2030: Transforming Cities' Relationship with Nature

The World Economic Forum with the Government of Colombia, the Humboldt, Arup and AlphaBeta, has released this insight report to call on cities, as crucial players in reversing nature loss and climate change, to become BiodiverCities by 2030. The report showcases the opportunity for urban leaders

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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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proGIreg Turin Interactive Living Lab NbS Map

This interactive maps let's users explore the nature-based solutions (NbS) implemented in the proGIreg Living Lab in Turin, Italy. ProGIreg is an EU-funded project using nature for urban regeneration of post-industrial areas with and for citizens in European and Chinese cities.

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Report knowledge base/action framework Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials

As the acronym already indicates, JUSTNature introduces the normative notion of justice. An initial analysis of the scope of nature-based solutions and the role of justice suggests that issues of social and environmental justice are only considered peripherally, and that so far no dedicated

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The importance of protecting human health in the EU climate policies

As anthropogenic climate change continues to escalate, its detrimental efects on human health are becoming pronounced, demanding urgent transformative actions from European policymakers. This policy brief underscores the importance of protecting human health in the EU climate change policies. As

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