NBS Knowledge Database
Introduction to the database
As the recognition of the potential Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) grows, so too does the need for a robust evidence base and business case across contexts. If NBS are to deliver on their predicted potential, decision-makers will require tools to communicate, promote and invest in interventions and policy. Currently, the tools available are usually sector-specific due to a lack of meta-analyses of the research, policy, projects and market-based resources available. With Europe producing much of these resources, the region is a fertile foundation point to analyse the state of the NBS landscape worldwide.
NetworkNature, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme, is a resource for the NBS community, creating opportunities for local, regional and international cooperation to maximise the impact and spread of NBS. NetworkNature has mapped European research, policy, projects and market-based tools, collating information on the stakeholders involved and topics covered; also, in parallel, has identified relevant international resources. As this is the first mapping of this scale to be performed (other mappings have been limited in sector, region and resource type), the methodology of mapping is in itself a reportable result. Due to the different types of resources, three separate mappings of global academia and projects, policy and market-based were undertaken and then combined to form this database.
For facilitation of access to information, this database is also accompanied by:
Nature-Based Solutions knowledge gaps: that compiles evidence base for NBS gap analysis to help identify future avenues for research.
Database of EU research and innovation projects on Nature-Based Solutions: that gathers European R&I projects on NBS from several major European research and innovation or implementation programmes.
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University of Leeds; Verdant Earth and Global Infrastructure Basel
Description: The Investment Opportunity and Business Case for NBS, An operational and financial framework for developing the NBS Business Case
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Global
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University of Leeds; Verdant Earth and Global Infrastructure Basel
Description: Presentation: 1. Define the business case structure 2. The NBS business case 3. A new approach to defining NBS projects
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Global
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Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas;
Description: Its main objective is to gather and promote state-of-the-art knowledge regarding Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), comprising a comprehensive guide to all relevant actors. To this end, each aspect of NBS is investigated, from project development to financing and policy making, and...
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Global
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Description: The Equator Initiative brings together the United Nations, governments, civil society, businesses and grassroots organizations to recognize and advance local sustainable development solutions for people, nature and resilient communities. It showcases outstanding local...
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Global
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International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
Description: This study reviews relevant Bangladeshi national policies from the past three decades to investigate NbS as a potential framework to address climate change and societal challenges in the country. We systematically analyzed twenty policy documents across three sectors: national...
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Asia
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University of Sheffield
Description: The valuation of urban water management practices and associated nature-based solutions (NBS) is highly contested, and is becoming increasingly important to cities seeking to increase their resilience to climate change whilst at the same time facing budgetary pressures....
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Global
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Environmental Politics
Description: Previous research has suggested that corporatist polities tend to enact more ambitious environmental policies than others. Here it is argued that the macro concept of corporatism can be dissected into three components: inclusiveness, consensualism and strength of tripartite...
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Europe
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World Bank
Description: This paper illustrates how built heritage can both benefit from NbS and contribute to their wider success, focusing on 10 key benefits of NbS in cities: improving health, sequestering carbon, enhancing biodiversity, providing acoustic comfort, reducing the urban heat island,...
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Global
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: This document summarises outcomes from the Commission individual expert reports delivered through its ‘Valorisation of NBS Projects’ initiative. EU research and innovation projects were scanned for results pertaining to key areas such as biodiversity, climate change mitigation...
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Europe
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Description: The State of Finance of Nature tracks global trends in public and private investment in nature-based solutions, aiming to improve data quality and identify opportunities for governments, businesses and financiers. This year’s report calls for investments in nature-based...
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Global
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Description: NI can help companies harness the services that nature offers (ecosystem services) as a substitute to so-called gray infrastructure (such as dams and water treatment plants). In some cases, NI may provide more benefits than gray infrastructure, while fulfilling the same function...
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Global
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Alternet Europe
Description: Biodiversity is at the heart of ecosystem health and functioning–which, in turn, provides the foundation for human flourishing. Alternet brings together international natural and social science researchers from 19 European countries to integrate our understanding of biodiversity...
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Europe
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University of Cambridge
Description: Mediterranean islands face significant environmental challenges due to their high population density, reliance on imports, and water scarcity, exacerbated by increasing risks from climate change. Naturebased solutions (NbS) could address these challenges sustainably and with...
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Europe
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UK Government
Description: The Review calls for changes in how we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world. Grounded in a deep understanding of ecosystem processes and how they are affected by economic activity, the new framework presented by the...
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Global
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Manchester Metropolitan University
Description: This article provides a perspective on nature-based solutions. First, the argument is developed that nature-based solutions integrate social and ecological systems. Then, theoretical considerations relating to relational values, multifunctionality, transdisciplinarity, and...
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Global
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Description: This article highlights the recent restoration of Swan Island in the Chesapeake Bay and the collaborative approach used to evaluate post-construction performance, as a framework for quantitative evaluation of NbS projects.
Two main findings of this article are:
1. Uncertainties...
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North America
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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Japan)
Description: This paper examines NbS as one of the narratives for the built environment within the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) framework in Japan, to assess the future evolution of the adaptation and mitigation challenges and long-term socio-economic and environmental consequences...
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Asia
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Green Purposes Company
Description: This report has conducted a global literature review of investments and desktop research to identify global examples of repayable investment into NbS to: Map completed investments into NbS to determine market trends; Analyse common NbS business models and investment structures...
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Global
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Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Japan)
Description: This study employs nine scenario analysis to examine the effectiveness of NbS for the mitigation of flood risk and their implications on the provision of ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan. The scenarios are developed under the current and future land demand and flood policies....
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Global
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University of Glasgow
Description: Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being implemented as suitable approaches for reducing vulnerability and risk of social-ecological systems (SES) to hydro-meteorological hazards. Understanding vulnerability and risk of SES is crucial in order to design and implement...
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Global
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University of Glasgow
Description: Nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognized as sustainable approaches to address societal challenges. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has benefited by moving away from purely ‘grey’ infrastructure measures towards NbS. However, this shift also furthers an increasing...
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Global
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TU Delft
Description: This paper proposes the “Frame of Reference” approach as a method to systematically transform BwN concepts into specified engineering designs. This approach helps with the rationalisation of BwN concepts and facilitates the transfer of crucial information between project...
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Global
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Broadway Initiative
Description: This paper is divided into two main sections. SECTION A sets out the opportunity for action, and the challenges that need to be overcome to accelerate private investment in nature-based solutions, including the importance of delivery at a landscape scale and the role of the...
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Europe
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Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR)
Description: CIIMAR Access to Ecosystem platform aims to facilitate research activities by sharing its deep and long-term knowledge on the fauna, flora and environmental conditions of the different ecosystems of the North Portuguese coast and by providing logistic facilities and guidance...
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Global
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WWF, IUCN and Practical Action
Description: This working document is a collaborative effort between WWF, IUCN and Practical Action as a result of the Latin America Regional Workshop entitled “Towards nature-based solutions: Green infrastructure for flood risk reduction”, that took place on 11-12 December 2017 in Lima,...
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Latin America
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University of Waterloo
Description: This paper proposes a framework to enable an accurate and transparent description of the “green” attributes of technology, including green infrastructure, in the water industry. This framework is built on the four attributes of water industry technology that impact greenness:...
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Global
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University of British Columbia; Canada
Description: This study explored whether and to what extent urban forest and climate change policies are mutually supportive and reinforcing, by conducting a review of climate change and urban forest policies in the largest 20 Canadian cities. This study has identified significant gaps and...
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Global
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Deemed University
Description: · A survey-based on questionnaires has been conducted to know the views of the public and explore the role of education in control of air pollution over the Agra region in north-central India The outcome or findings of the survey show that: · Value-based education is needed to...
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Asia
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University of Surrey
Description: To bring to fruition the capability of nature-based solutions (NBS) in mitigating hydro-meteorological risks (HMRs) and facilitate their widespread uptake require a consolidated knowledge-base related to their monitoring methods, efficiency, functioning and the ecosystem...
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Global
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Trinity College Dublin
Description: The arrival of the phrase nature-based solutions into the lexicon of academics, planners, managers and policy makers in recent years has sparked a heated debate as to the effectiveness of using nature as a viable solution for mitigating the impacts of anthropogenic environmental...
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Europe
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Description: Assessments of ecosystem services (ES), that aim at informing decisions on land management, are increasing in number around the globe. Despite selected success stories, evidence for ES information being used in decision making is weak, partly because ES assessments are found to...
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Global
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Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine
Description: The global environmental crisis demands transformative approaches toward sustainability. Nature-based solutions (NbS) resonate strongly in science and practice, but their capacity to deliver transformative change has not been assessed. Here, we provide a conceptual framework to...
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Global
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Universitat Politècnica de València
Description: · This study proposes a set of indicators which are able to analyse the performance of urban green infrastructure in terms of structure and functionality. · The results of this study show how urban green infrastructure elements can be used to integrate urban and agroecosystems....
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Europe
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Australian Water Partnership
Description: The Australian Water Partnership focuses on improving water resources management outcomes through sharing knowledge and experiences; developing capacity of individuals and organisations; and promoting the adoption of effective policies, practices and tools
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Oceania
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Stellenbosch University
Description: This article examines evidence on the benefits of ecological infrastructure interventions, in terms of ecosystem services provided to society, from three major South African water-providing catchments. Results of the study show: The evidence base for the benefits of investing in...
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Global
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University of Surrey
Description: This article describes the beneficial, as well as harmful, aspects of biodiversity to human health in urban environments and discusses the importance of exposure and experience of biodiversity for attaining health effects and develop a research agenda to quantify health benefits...
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Global
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 aims to secure healthy, resilient, biodiversity-rich ecosystems that deliver the range of services essential to the prosperity and well-being of citizens. Nature-based Solutions (NBS) – with healthy and biodiverse ecosystems at their core -...
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Europe
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Biodiversity Information System for Europe
Description: This webpage presents selected data catalogues and infrastructures offering reference data related to biodiversity in Europe, as developed and managed by BISE key partners, other relevant organisations and projects.
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Europe
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University of Castilla-La Mancha
Description: It is expected that the reader finds in this book inspiration for developing novel ways and strategies for the in situ bioremediation of agricultural contaminated soils. The interesting point around the multiple strategies discussed in this book coming from the ecological...
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Europe
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University of Otago
Description: This research aims to explore the flood risk management strategies used after the 2011 Brisbane floods and to investigate the capacity for BGI in this management. A qualitative approach was used to investigate the primary case study of Brisbane in comparison to the secondary...
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Oceania, Asia
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BMBF Programme Urban Climate Under Change
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Global
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Peking University
Description: This paper discusses NbS planning for the Jialing River in Wusheng County to address three challenges: · how to transform the riverfront planning from specialized to holistic · how to effectively communicate NbS in planning · how to incorporate both scientific results and local...
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Asia
Main entity:
TU Delft
Description: This study presents an overview of the latest developments in the field of Building with Nature (BwN) for the protection of coastal regions, as a new generation of nature-based hydraulic solutions. This study investigates the new boundaries between BwN-based hydraulic solutions...
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Global
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Wetlands International
Description: This book makes the urgent and compelling case for scaling up the Building with Nature approach to adapt to and mitigate climate change. It contains a large number of Building with Nature solutions and results in six different landscape types and dialogues with experts and...
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Global
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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Description: Drawing from three case studies in Nocera Inferiore (Italy), Munich (Germany), and Wolong (China), this paper identifies key governance enablers—the contextual preconditions, policy processes, and institutions—that proved essential for NBS initiation, planning, design, and...
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Global
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Technical University of Munich
Description: How to develop and implement visions and strategies for the sustainable development of cultural landscapes – from rural to urban? How to increase their capacity to cope with the big challenges of the 21st century such as peak oil, climate change and demographic change? The chair...
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Global
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University of Nottingham
Description: This study the socio-ecological challenges of the application of NbS is studied in East and Southeast Asia. Five unique challenges for the application of NbS in the region: Characteristics of urbanisation, · Biophysical environmental and climatic context · Environmental risk and...
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Asia
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Nature-Based Solutions Facilitation Team, Climate Action Summit 2019
Description: In preparing for the 23 September 2019 Climate Action Summit called by the United Nations Secretary-General, the Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Coalition put out a global call for initiatives on how NBS can be enhanced and scaled-up. More than 180 proposals were received and have...
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Global
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Climate Adaptation Platform
Description: The Climate Adaptation Platform provides information and a networking hub to mobilise a collective effort towards adapting to climate change and its associated impacts.
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Oceania
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Darmstadt Technical University
Description: This paper presents an alternative adaptive methodology for the design of Nature-based Solutions for decentralized urban runoff treatment. Results show that the adoption of NbS in regions should not only rely on available technical guidelines; a detailed analysis of context-...
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Global
Main entity:
Technical University Darmstadt
Description: Decentralized Nature-based Solutions such as Urban Green Infrastructures (UGI) are increasingly promoted to reduce flooding in urban areas. Many studies have shown the effectiveness of flood control of UGI at a plot or neighbourhood level. Modelling approaches that extrapolate...
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Global
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Adam Mickiewicz University; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Description: Using NbS to increase the ecosystem services capacity through the creation of green infrastructure (GI) elements, strengthening its quality and/or multifunctionality and supporting its diverse usage.
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Dose of Nature
Description: Dose of Nature is a registered charity that is all about using outdoor natural environments to improve health and wellbeing. It's a service, a network and a research project.
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Europe
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University of York
Description: This publication offers 10 practical recommendations which provides guidance for urban policy makers, planners, designers and local authorities in dryland areas. These recommendations are based on an ongoing study in three cities looking at rural-urban climate resilient in...
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Africa
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Brunel University London
Description: This paper provides an analysis of recent literature about the economic impact of linear to circular (L2C) transition. The review investigates the economic implications (i.e. cost-benefit) of deployment of enabling technologies, tools and methodologies within the circular water...
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Global
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Environmental Sustainability Research Centre
Description: Through a scoping review of scientific literature, this paper has selected four major Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) strategies for the Greater Niagara Region, Canada, and evaluated using the eight core principles of NbS discussed in the publication “Core principles for...
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North America
Main entity:
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Description: This study contributes to addressing the lack of sufficient knowledge base to accelerate wider acceptance and uptake of NbS. It also addresses the question of the effectiveness of different types of NbS (i.e., small- and large-scale NbS) and their hybrid combinations with grey...
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Global
Main entity:
University of Cambridge
Description: This paper aims to address the potential impacts of shoreline change on open coast dune and estuarine-coast saltmarsh ecosystems and implications for the role of ‘nature-based’ climate change solutions. The paper objectives are to: investigate potential shoreline changes on both...
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Global
Main entity:
Water Institute of the Gulf
Description: Hazards in coastal ecosystems, such as flooding and land loss, demand natural and nature-based solutions from local communities due to the protective and non-protective services they provide when compared with traditionally engineered approaches. In this context, natural...
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Global
Main entity:
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Description: The Environmental Sustainability Assessment and Circularity (SUSTAIN) research unit provides industry and policy makers with science-based assessment (via new methods and technologies) of the impacts and risks associated to manufacturing of products and technologies, consumption...
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Global
Main entity:
Griffith University
Description: This study proposes a new comprehensive approach to carbon accounting based on the whole carbon cycle, covering both stocks and flows, and linking changes due to human activities with responses in the biosphere and atmosphere. The paper states that the proposed holistic and...
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Global
Main entity:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: The Handbook aims to provide decision-makers with a comprehensive NBS impact assessment framework, and a robust set of indicators and methodologies to assess impacts of nature-based solutions across 12 societal challenge areas: Climate Resilience; Water Management; Natural and...
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Europe
Main entity:
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Description: There is increasing global interest in employing nature-based solutions, such as reforestation and wetland restoration, to help reduce water risks to economies and society, including water pollution, floods, droughts and water scarcity, that are likely to become worse under...
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Africa
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European Environment Agency
Description: This report focuses on certain types of extreme events and natural hazards at European scale that will be very likely amplified by ongoing climate change, i.e. landslides, avalanches, floods and storm surges. In addition, the report also touches upon the green infrastructure and...
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Europe
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Lead City University
Description: This study presents a literature review on the design strategies of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) and associated ecosystem services for flood management in Lagos, Nigeria. It also investigates the perceptions of built environment professionals toward Nature-based...
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Africa
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Adaptationcommunity.net
Description: This new facthseet developed by the Global Project Mainstreaming EbA provides you with a brief overview and a simple visualization to help make the term EbA more clear. It also relates EbA to the now often discussed term ‘Nature-based Solutions’ and thereby offers an easy to...
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Global
Main entity:
Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA)
Description: The key goal of this guide is to help communities identify and engage the staff and resources that can be used to implement nature-based solutions to build resilience to natural hazards, which may be exacerbated by climate change.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation
Description: The REFORLAN project aimed to identify and promote approaches for the sustainable management of arid and semi-arid forest ecosystems in Latin America, in order to protect biodiversity while supporting local populations' livelihood. The project examined ecosystem restoration...
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Latin America
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University of Porto
Description: · Scientifically document the in-situ establishment of a Floating wetland islands (FWI) solution a seawater port marina This study gives new insights into broadening FWI application to the saline environments of port marinas and to supporting a management strategy to promote...
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Europe
Main entity:
Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance
Description: The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (the Alliance) is a multi-sectoral partnership focusing on finding practical ways to support communities in developed and developing countries strengthen their resilience to flood risk. Our vision is that floods have no negative impact on...
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Global
Main entity:
Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance
Description: The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (the Alliance) is a multi-sectoral partnership focusing on finding practical ways to support communities in developed and developing countries strengthen their resilience to flood risk. Our vision is that floods have no negative impact on...
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Global
Main entity:
Forest of the World
Description: Forests of the World views nature-based solutions as indispensable to sustainably ensure climatic stability and forest conservation at the same time, via pro-poor green growth. We understand nature-based solutions as solutions, which provide co-benefits, i.e. benefits to society...
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Global
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University of Oxford
Description: Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have rapidly been gaining traction across the research, policy and practice spheres, advocated as transformative actions to jointly address biodiversity loss and climate change. However, there are multiple, alternative ways to conceptualize NbS...
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Global
Main entity:
FutureEarth
Description: At Future Earth, we believe that research, innovation, and collaboration can transform the world toward sustainability. We harness the experience and reach of thousands of scientists and innovators from across the globe. Together, this global community facilitates research,...
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Global
Main entity:
Nature-based Solutions Initiative
Description: Nature-based solutions (NbS)—solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature—have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can address climate change and biodiversity loss, while supporting sustainable development. Although well-designed NbS...
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Global
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World Resources Institute (WRI)
Description: This work builds on WRI’s work supporting the Nature-based Solutions Action Track of the Global Commission on Adaptation and other efforts.
Scope:
Global
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Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation
Description: GIB promotes sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and youth engagement expertise on a global scale.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Nature-based Solutions Initiative
Description: Ecosystems across the globe are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, as are the communities that depend on them. However, ecosystems can also protect people from climate change impacts. As the evidence base strengthens, nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly...
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Global
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National University of Singapore
Description: This paper presents the results of the modelling of the global potential and limits of urban reforestation worldwide, The findings of this study show that there is a total of 10.9 ± 2.8 Mha of urban green areas across 7,595 cities, which are potentially available for...
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Global
Main entity:
Technical University of Munich
Description: This paper provides an overview of the implemented NbS for flood risk management and mitigation in Germany, identifies governance models that are applied, and explores the differences between the models. The study concludes by highlighting the need for further research on...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
University of Newcastle (Australia)
Description: Australian governments are increasingly enrolling ecological restoration and urban afforestation to address climate change and support the transition towards sustainability. While policymakers warm to these ‘nature-based solutions’, their successful implementation will depend on...
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Oceania
Main entity:
Wageningen University and Research
Description: This study undertakes a systematic review of research published in international peer-reviewed journals that analyses environmental justice issues within the context of the deployment of urban green amenities. Since most studies focus on the Global North, this study aims to...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Nature Insurance Value Assessment and Demonstration (NAIAD)
Description: The main objective of this handbook is to guide the development of investable NbS propositions and bankable NbS projects for both public and private investors through different modes of governance, funding and implementation arrangements. It offers operational advice and project...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Climate Lab; University of Toronto (Scarborough)
Description: Widespread implementation of nature-based solutions like green infrastructure, provides a multi-functional strategy to increase climate resilience, enhance ecological connectivity, create healthier communities, and support sustainable urban development. This paper presents a...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Girne American University (Cyprus)
Description: This study provides a literature review of ways cities can be transformed into more resilient, and sustainable regions by creatively enhancing the quality and quantity of blue and green areas in and around them. The outcomes show that:· It is essential that the benefits of NbS...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)
Description: This paper examines interactions between human and natural systems that result in ecosystem services and changes in land use and land cover in urban areas. It develops a social-ecological model for land use and land cover change, and for ecosystems services that integrates...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Description: “Innovative finance” and bringing nature and private investors together in a sustainable and lasting way.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
HSBC Climate solutions and innovation
Description: HSBC is leading a role in mobilising the transition to a global net zero economy, not just by financing it, but by helping to shape and influence the global policy agenda.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Description: Thirty years ago, UNDP created a new way to conceive and measure progress. Instead of using growth in GDP as the sole measure of development, we ranked the world’s countries by their human development: by whether people in each country have the freedom and opportunity to live...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Queen Margaret University
Description: This paper discusses the impact of NbS to enhance the human psychological well-being in the context of human-animal touristic encounters. This article demonstrates how the natural landscape provides an experiential platform whereby humans and horses interact as a positive NbS.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
University of Georgia
Description: This work is the first step in developing a Regional Center for Research on Nature-based solutions (NBS). NBS are an emerging worldwide practice that uses natural features and processes to increase resilience to climatological and environmental stress and change, while providing...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)
Description: This study investigates the capacity of pollutant removal by the green roofs when irrigated with domestic wastewater. Results of this study demonstrate that water quality indicated by chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, ammonium nitrogen, and total phosphorus from the...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Lund University
Description: Constraints and opportunities related to the implementation of nature-based solutions in municipalities.
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Description: This study aims to develop a methodology to select NbS measures by integrating a preliminary selection tool with a multi-criteria analysis framework for different scales (i.e. urban area, river basin, coastal area) and hazard types (i.e. pluvial floods, fluvial floods, flash...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
University College Dublin
Description: This study presents findings from a systematic review of literature and a survey on private sector agents in the planning and implementation of NbS, with the aim to identify the typology of Nature-based enterprises. The result of the study shows that the recognition of nature-...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Innovation Network Ecosystem Services Germany
Description: By increasing the level of awareness of the ecosystem service approach and by promoting best practice solutions, the Ecosystem Services Partnership will open up new opportunities for financial support for research projects. In addition, it will help to use existing sources of...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Technical University of Munich
Description: The aim of this study is to show the co/benefits of floodplain restoration and handle them in terms of monetized ecosystem services. This paper is focused on six ecosystem services groups for three study areas in the Danube, and has considered the ecosystem services mapping...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Adaptationcommunity.net
Description: This study explores how the two leading approaches in water resources management and ecosystem thinking for climate change adaptation – i.e. IWRM and EbA – can be merged to achieve greater climate resilience in watersheds. It entails a conceptual analysis of both approaches and...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
World Resources Institute (WRI), World Bank Group
Description: Traditional infrastructure systems worldwide rely on built solutions to support the smooth and safe functioning of societies. in the face of multiplying environmental threats, this approach alone can no longer provide the climate resiliency and level of services required in the...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Description: The framework is articulated around four phases (characterisation, assessment, design, and monitoring) and three concepts (character, service, and value). It advocates integration of public participation, consideration of ‘‘landscape services’’, the inclusion of ecosystem...
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Europe
