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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International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Description: This virtual event featured speakers who shared their experience on the application of nature-based solutions (NbS) to provide long-term social, ecological and economic benefits. The outcome of the event was a practical understanding of the multiple advantages of NbS, including...
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Global
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Montpellier University
Description: This study analyses people’s perception of co-benefits and negative effects, and associated preferences for two different types of NbS for reducing flood risk (conserving peri-urban ecosystems from urban sprawl or by developing green infrastructure) at a catchment scale. The...
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Global
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The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Finance
Description: The Nature Conservancy joined forces with Environmental Finance to better understand what these investors are looking for, what obstacles they face and what can be done to help them scale up investments in projects that protect or enhance natural capital.
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Global
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Financial Times
Description: The fight against climate change is a matter not just of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but also of nurturing ecosystems that can draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This report looks at how business is rising to that challenge
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Global
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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Description: The aim of the “Urban Systems and Mass Flow Management” topic is to investigate the interactions between natural and anthropogenic processes in an urban environment. By developing sustainable (urban) development concepts and appropriate technical and methodological tools,...
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Global
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Global Landscape Forum
Description: What are – and aren’t – nature-based solutions?
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Global
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Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
Description: Access to data on built environment databases makes nowadays possible generating models of the urban spaces to facilitate visualization and analysis of information and synthesize it in sustainability indicators to support urban planning decisions. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can...
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Europe
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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
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Port and Airport Research Institute; Japan
Description: This paper provides a review on how green infrastructure and NbS in coastal and shallow nearshore areas can contribute to blue climate change mitigation and adaptation. It also summarises available coastal infrastructure types (green, gray, and green–gray hybrid) in terms of...
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Global
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Technical University of Munich
Description: This Paper presents a literature review on the theoretical aspects of the Living Labs concept in the context of NbS and compares the theoretical findings with practices and NbS case studies.
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Global
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Tohoku University
Description: Nature-based solutions (NbS) address socio-environmental challenges by sustainably managing ecosystems that offer and support the delivery of various services. NbS can integrate locally relevant options for maintaining ecosystems, thus, encourages the participation of local...
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Asia
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Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA); Wetlands International
Description: AGWA, together with Wetlands International, has published the report with three goals in mind: 1) to illustrate the scientific rationale behind the use of wetlands as a climate mitigation tool; 2) to demonstrate the prevalence and function of wetlands across landscapes and...
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Global
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Inter-American Development Bank
Description: This report investigates the region’s efforts to mainstream natural capital and biodiversity concerns into public policy. It also provides a series of policy tools and instruments: payments for ecosystems services, innovation in managing protected areas, conservation trust funds...
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Latin America
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Description: This chapter is one of a series of country case studies that explore existing challenges on scaling up the use of NbS to address water-related climate risks. Using the experience in UK, this chapter aims to identify potential ways of creating an enabling environment for NbS,...
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Europe
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University of Delhi
Description: Protection against coastal disasters has been identified as an important service of mangrove ecosystems. Empirical studies on this service have been criticized, however, for using small samples and inadequately controlling for confounding factors. We used data on several hundred...
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Asia
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University of Oxford
Description: Nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change currently have considerable political traction. However, national intentions to deploy NbS have yet to be fully translated into evidence-based targets and action on the ground. To enable NbS policy and practice to be better informed...
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Global
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Earth System Knowledge Platform
Description: This ESKP topic special shows some options for action and approaches that are being explored internationally, but also in Germany, to increase the resilience of cities.
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Global
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Sapienza University of Rome
Description: In this paper the role of the Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) in improving air quality in the Metropolitan City of Naples is studied. The findings indicate that about 1,148 Mg of PM10 were annually removed by the UGI, for a monetary value of 36 million euros per year. The...
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Europe
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Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program (Hungary)
Description: Supporting Massachusetts cities and towns as they build resilience to climate change.
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North America
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NAP Global Network
Description: National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes present a strategic opportunity to raise the profile of NbS approaches, providing a framework—and, potentially, financial resources—for implementation at scale.
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Global
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Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Description: This article presents a tool called a Natural Assurance Schemes (NAS) canvas and explains how it can be applied to identify business models for NbS strategies providing climate adaptation services, showing an eye-shot summary of critical information to attract funding. The...
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Global
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Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
Description: This paper aims to characterize water retention ponds as viable solutions for water management in agriculture and to quantify their effectiveness, direct and indirect benefits, and costs. The paper analyses the case of the Lamone river catchment in Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy...
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Global
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Inter-American Development Bank
Description: This document outlines emerging findings from the work and provides initial recommendations for infrastructure project developers, financial institutions, and policy makers, to create a more enabling environment for NbS.
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Global
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University of Nevada
Description: This paper suggests two areas for introducing NbS in urban planning: through the conception of new green neighbourhoods; and through the regeneration and re-greening of existing but neglected parts of the city, such as post-industrial brownfields or economically weak districts....
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Global
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Nature Map Earth
Description: Nature Map Consortium presents global maps to help governments operationalize targets for biodiversity conservation and restoration
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Global
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Global Resilience Partnership
Description: his platform provides guides and tools based on The Blue Guide for Coastal Resilience. This Guide enables disaster risk reduction practitioners to learn about how Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can protect people and property specifically in coastal areas. NbS in coastal areas...
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Global
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University of Copenhagen
Description: The research field of this multidisciplinary group is socio-cultural ecosystem services provided by rural as well as urban green and blue infrastructures, e.g. outdoor recreation, green space management, and branding.
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Global
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University of Copenhagen
Description: The research group work focuses on research, development and teaching within evidence-based health design and nature-based treatment with the aim to improve health outcomes for various user – and target groups.
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Global
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Nature4Climate
Description: A vision for what the next twelve months, to COP26 and beyond, could look like for NbS
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Global
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University of Toronto (Scarborough)
Description: The application of green infrastructure presents an opportunity to mitigate rising temperatures using a multi-faceted ecosystems-based approach. A controlled field study in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, evaluates the impact of nature-based solutions on near surface air temperature...
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North America
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TU Delft
Description: In this article, a new planning approach is proposed which holistically links the entirety of urban problems with the path-dependency of transformational paces. The application of Nature-based Solutions, enhancing both human and natural health in cities, is used as the...
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Global
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University of Ljubljana
Description: Cities worldwide are facing a number of serious challenges including population growth, resource depletion, climate change, and degradation of ecosystems. To cope with these challenges, the transformation of our cities into sustainable systems using a holistic approach is...
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Global
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Technical University of Crete
Description: While our modern global society enjoys the benefits of an economic growth that was never seen before, at the same time, it is facing the existential threat of climate change. We now realize that the linear economic model cannot sustain our life standards indefinitely. A new...
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Global
Nature-based solutions as tools for air phytoremediation: A review of the current knowledge and gaps
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University of Sannio
Description: Monitoring of air quality and the application of strategies for its improvement are perceived as key areas for reducing environmental pollution. The research on Nature Based Solutions for the mitigation of pollutant concentrations in the air has increasingly developed in the...
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Global
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University of Oxford
Description: This publication clarifies the role of NbS in climate change mitigation by presenting the projected effect of worldwide implementation of NbS on global temperatures. This approach differs from previous calculations of the climate change mitigation potential of NbS, which have...
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Global
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Deltares
Description: Nature-based Solutions examples from the Deltares Institute
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Global
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Asian Development Bank
Description: Working with local governments, nongovernment organizations, women’s groups, and professional associations, town-wide adaptation measures were defined by overlaying climate change projections on town plans and zoning schemes for strategic infrastructure. This publication...
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Asia
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British Ecology Society
Description: This report reviews a wide range of evidence on several ways Nature-based Solutions can be used to tackle the sustainability and resilience challenges cities face, and highlights planting urban trees, increasing community green spaces, utilising brownfield sites and building...
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Europe
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IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Description: Hydro-meteorological risks due to natural hazards such as severe floods, storm surges, landslides and droughts are causing impacts on different sectors of society. Such risks are expected to become worse given projected changes in climate, degradation of ecosystems, population...
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Global
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: Nature-based Solutions (NbS) represent a key approach to improve air quality, microclimate, health and well-being of urban populations. The European Commission will adopt in 2021 a zero pollution action plan for air, water and soil and it is known that especially air quality has...
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Europe
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World Business Council of Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Description: The Roadmap to Nature Positive is an action framework for business that defines a process through which specific sectors can put actions in place that help them get ready to set science-based targets for nature, report against the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial...
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Global
Nature-based solutions improving water quality & waterbody conditions: Analysis of EU-funded project
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: This document summarises outcomes relating to water quality and waterbody conditions from the report ‘Nature-based Solutions: State of the Art in EU-funded Projects’ (Wild et al. (Eds.) 2020) prepared through the EC’s Valorisation of NbS Projects Initiative. EU research and...
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Europe
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Description: In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the area of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that improve ecosystem functions of environments and landscapes affected by agricultural practices and land degradation, while enhancing livelihoods and other social and cultural...
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Global
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Description: Today, the global food system drives a ten trillion-dollar economy that connects 7.5 billion consumers and a diverse array of more than 1 billion food producers (farmers, ranchers, pastoralists, and fish harvesters). Approximately one-half of the world’s habitable lands are used...
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Global
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Description: In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the area of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that improve ecosystem functions of environments and landscapes affected by agricultural practices and land degradation, while enhancing livelihoods and other social and cultural...
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Global
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Description: Food system demands have increased exponentially in recent decades and are estimated to continue growing as global populations increase and economic affluence expands. However, the very foundation of a productive system – healthy lands and soils and clean water supply – is...
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Global
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AlliedOffsets
Description: This is the first in a series of reports on carbon offsetting projects around the world; the reports are data-driven and aim to provide an overview of the environmental issues at hand, as well as how carbon offsetting fits into the current suite of solutions and mitigating...
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Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: This report explores the scope and application of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in addressing water and river basin management issues. NbS are actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems to simultaneously providing human well-being and...
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Asia
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Catalan Institute for Water Research
Description: This article gathers the knowledge from four European projects to gather a common understanding of NbS and facilitate its mainstreaming with regards to ecosystem services and urban challenges. It emphasizes that the NbS community (research, public and private sector) need to...
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Global
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University of Oxford
Description: Nature-Based Solutions NDC data Platform
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Global
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European Environment Agency
Description: The EEA report provides up-to-date information for policymakers on the how to apply NbS for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and at the same time making use of multiple societal benefits that NbS can bring. Key findings of the report: An EU-wide mapping of...
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Europe
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: This document summarises outcomes from the EC 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 and...
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Global
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Description: Nature-based solutions promoting green and blue urban areas have significant potential to decrease the vulnerability and enhance the resilience of cities in light of climatic change. They can thereby help to mitigate climate change-induced impacts and serve as proactive...
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Global
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Description: Over the past thirty years local communities have remained at the heart of efforts to address sustainable development across the European Union, mobilised by a wide range of policies and initiatives to develop sustainable, smart, low carbon, resilient and eco-cities. As...
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Europe
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Netherlands National HP-HWRP Committee
Description: We work together with them to find case-studies that are fit to show Nature Based Solutions 4 Water in addition to the work in the World Water Development Report 2018.
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Global
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NDC Partnership
Description: This NDC Partnership Thematic Call builds on the Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP) to support developing member countries in two key, interconnected fronts: preparing, updating and refining Long-term Low Emissions Development Strategies (LT-LEDS) and enhancing the...
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Global
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World Economic Forum
Description: The series will span three reports that focus on the following priorities:
1. Make the case for why nature loss is a material risk to business and the economy, including: a. The scale and urgency of the nature crisis b. The potential consequences for society if the crisis...
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Global
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World Economic Forum
Description: A series of reports showing the relevance of nature loss to boardroom discussions on risks, opportunities and financing. These insights provide pathways for business to be part of the transition to a nature-positive economy
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Global
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International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Description: Leading companies in the primary natural resource sectors are setting more targeted and measureable enviornmental goals, which in regards to biodiversity-related risks, are increasingly framed as "No Net Loss" (NNL) or "Net Positive Impact" (NPI) goals. To date however, much of...
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Global
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An Fóram Uisce
Description: This report was produced for An Fóram Uisce to provide guidance on how peatland management can be reimagined in order to optimise water quality improvements, while delivering co-benefits for climate change and biodiversity. This study was split into five key work packages: 1)...
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Europe
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Our Future Water
Description: This book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.
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Global
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Partners for Resilience
Description: Partners for Resilience (PfR) is a global network of about 50 civil society organisations and their networks, working in hazard prone areas to strengthen people's resilience in the face of rising disaster risks.
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Global
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University of Melbourne; Université Libre de Bruxelles
Description: This research examines how Australian water professionals from research and practice understand, conceptualise and use the NbS concept in addressing urban water challenges. 27 water professionals in research and practice with diverse disciplinary backgrounds across four...
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Global
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Jožef Stefan Institute
Description: This paper studies the effectiveness of high-rate algal ponds (HRAP) as an alternative to conventional biological wastewater treatment, and the HRAP potential to contribute to the circular economy by valorising reclaimed water and algal biomass. Outcomes of the HRAP pilot...
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Global
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Ruhr University Bochum (Germany)
Description: This paper provides a review of studies of assessing, planning, and implementing NbS in river landscapes in Europe and beyond. The paper discusses approaches for assessing their effects, for integrated planning at local to regional scales, and for initiating governance schemes...
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Global
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National Geological Service Office (France)
Description: This paper presents the structure of the PHUSICOS database platform and a first analysis of its content. This platform is dedicated to gather and analyse relevant NbSs used to reduce disaster risk associated with extreme hydro-meteorological events in mountainous and hilly lands...
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Global
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Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
Description: This paper discusses how online citizen science platforms can stimulate stakeholder engagement and promote NbS as an ideal tool to increase international knowledge exchange and raise awareness, with the ultimate goal that a good example of an affordable and well-functioning NbS...
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Global
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UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)
Description: The aim of the report is to enable more ambitious targets related to Nature-based Solutions, climate resilience and environmental net gain, and ultimately an increase in the application of NbS, both wild and cultivated, in urban areas. This report sets out six principles to...
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Global
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World Resources Institute (WRI)
Description: This paper provides the first assessment of the landscape of public international funding for nature-based solutions for climate adaptation, covering both climate finance and Official Development Assistance (ODA). It seeks to help donor countries, multilateral institutions, and...
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Global
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China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
Description: The current difficulties in determining the ecological flow of rivers in northern China are the poor pertinence of methods and insufficient consideration of ecological factors. On the basis of systematic analysis of river hydrological situations and ecological protection...
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Global
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Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC)
Description: Research network dedicated to forest landscape governance in Southeast Asia
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Global
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University of Roehampton
Description: This paper report on the use of flood risk vulnerability models based on remotely sensed satellite data and ecosystem services principles. The results of the modelling for the 2017 Atlantic storm season show that between 75 and 94% of red mangroves in the three communities were...
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Global
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RMIT University
Description: Different ways of thinking and understanding urban problems and imagining solutions are needed to redress the suite of serious challenges facing cities. Focusing on urban nature, this conceptual paper begins from the standpoint that nature-based solutions (NbS) could help remake...
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Global
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The Royal Society
Description: This report considers the latest scientific evidence concerning the impact of extreme weather on people throughout the world. With maps and models it indicates where high densities of vulnerable people are more likely to be exposed to floods, droughts and heatwaves in coming...
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Global
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Utrecht University
Description: Obtaining public and/or private finance for upscaling urban nature-based solutions (NbS) is a key barrier for reaching urban sustainability goals, including climate mitigation and adaptation. We carry out a systematic review of the academic literature to understand the key...
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Global
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Wetlands International
Description: This new white paper suggests how to overcome prevailing public and private investment barriers to widespread uptake and application of Building with Nature solutions.
Scope:
Global
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Description: Ecosystems play a potentially important role in sustainably reducing the risk of disaster events worldwide. Yet, to date, there are few comprehensive studies that summarize the state of knowledge of ecosystem services and functions for disaster risk reduction. This paper builds...
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Global
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Description: There is growing recognition that using the properties of nature through nature-based solutions (NbS) can help to provide viable and cost-effective solutions to a wide range of societal challenges, including disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, NbS realization depends...
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Asia
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Scotland's Nature Agency
Description: This website provides an overview of Nature-based Solutions in Scotland and how nature can be used to help tackle environmental and social challenges, providing benefits to people and nature to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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Europe
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Utrecht University
Description: This study aims to analyse how structural conditions shape barriers and also possible opportunities for NbS, and constructs a conceptual framework to guide empirical research on structural conditions. The findings of this paper indicate that NbS require a different understanding...
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Global
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SwedBio - Stockholm Resilience Centre
Description: The Thrive mobile application is a guide on how to achieve the most with limited resources: a set of 60 step-by-step nature-based solutions to improve people's lives and protect natural assets across cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The app houses solutions that can be achieved by...
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Global
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Swiss RE
Description: Examples of SwissRe's nature based solutions projects
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Global
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IPBES (Denmark)
Description: This report identifies potential synergies between biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation by the data gathered from eight NbS projects (peatland and forests) in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This report concludes 10 policy...
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Europe
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FrontiersIn
Description: This Research Topic welcomes manuscripts focusing on psychological health and the urban, semi-urban and natural environment from different perspectives; these include, but are not limited to:
1. Original papers, systematic or bibliographic reviews and meta-analyses on human–...
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Global
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The Nature Conservancy
Description: The Blue Guide to Coastal Resilience is designed for practitioners, technical experts and project managers and provides step-by-step guidance for DRR planners for integrating and implementing various NbS in coastal areas. The guide helps DRR planners to assess the context, risk...
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Global
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ICATALIST; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Description: This study examines NbS potential as integrated solutions to transform the current water intensive economic model to a more balanced model, where water is considered as an eco-social asset. It uses NbS as an entry point to understand the role of underpinning deep values, formal...
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Global
Main entity:
Nature-based Solutions Initiative
Description: The NbS Evidence Platform is an interactive map linking nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation outcomes based on a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature.
Scope:
Global
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Deltares
Description: This paper studies the financial barriers of making nature-based flood defences (NBFD) a common practice and discusses the following questions: - Through which mechanisms can public investments in NBFD projects be leveraged? - What are the enabling conditions for these...
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Global
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Swinburne University of Technology
Description: A systematic literature review is conducted in this study to explore how an ecological justice perspective can advance the understanding of NbS in the concept of cities and to address the knowledge gap in how to design and plan NbS in a non-anthropocentric manner to enhance co-...
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Global
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Greifswald University
Description: This paper lists peatland rewetting as a Nature-based Solutions. It discusses the land use opportunities on rewetted peat soils. Furthermore, peatland rewetting together with carbon farming will provide win-win-options for various sectors such as: - Agriculture: Alternative...
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Global
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Khalifa University (UAE)
Description: This study focuses on the assessment and utilization of a design-based approach focused on urban trees as NbS in low-rise residential urban areas to enhance microclimate in neighborhood streets and the public realm in desert areas, taking Abu Dhabi as a case study. This study...
Scope:
Global
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UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
Description: This report includes a global-level assessment of the current status and trends in water demand and availability, extreme water-related events and water quality, recognizing that the sustainable management of food, energy and water are deeply interconnected and that these...
Scope:
Global
Main entity:
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Description: This paper advocates that lessons can be learnt from Indigenous Peoples’ approach to food, which will contribute to the resilience and sustainability of food systems worldwide, as well as supporting the wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples. In this vein, this paper provides evidence...
Scope:
Global
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Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
Description: Some remediation techniques, such as thermal remediation, can significantly change the soil properties. These changes can be beneficial or detrimental to the sequential application of Nature-based Solutions. This work evaluated the effects of thermal remediation on the...
Scope:
Global
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The Water Forum
Description: The Water Forum is committed to facilitating stakeholder engagement on all water issues at a national, strategic policy level with the common goal of improving water quality.
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Europe
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European Environment Agency
Description: Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, which include other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. These include water purification, air quality, space for recreation and...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
Greifswald University
Description: The Paris Agreement reflects the global endeavour to limit the increase of global average temperature to 2 °C, better 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels to prevent dangerous climate change. This requires that global anthropogenic net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are reduced to...
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Europe
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Technical University of Munich
Description: This study investigates the interplay of densification and the availability of green space and its impact on human heat stress in summer.
Scope:
Global
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Ghenf University
Description: Applying the same approach used in the high-impact study on “The global tree restoration potential” published in Science (Bastin et al. 2019) but tailored to the European context by using EU specific data, this report constitutes a first preliminary assessment of the natural...
Scope:
Europe
Main entity:
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Description: We carry out excellent environmental science that is relevant to society's needs, with a positive impact. Wherever we work in the world, our research and innovation will make a difference - to knowledge, to nature, to livelihoods and to national economies.
Scope:
Global