Nature-based solutions resources
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Policy and Planning Toolkit for Urban Green Justice
Based on qualitative interview data collected in 40 cities across Western Europe, the United States and Canada, the report presents a summary and analysis of 50 policy tools and policies that fight displacement and gentrification while also improving the accessibility and inclusiveness of green
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URBAN NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: PERSPECTIVES, LESSONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FROM NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, UK
This report promotes and develops the idea of urban nature-based solutions as a new policy agenda that can both serve to support the kinds of access to, appreciation of, and enhanced well-being from nature that has been brought into the spotlight by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the
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The multiple values of urban nature: Evidence from 1,000 European nature-based solutions
Urban nature-based solutions can be designed to deliver diverse social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits in parallel. This instills them with the potential to contribute to multiple policy goals simultaneously. Making optimal use of such solutions requires an understanding of the
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Achieving impact: How to realise the potential of urban nature-based solutions
The importance of urban green areas as a refuge to city dwellers and as a foundation for ‘recovering better’ has gained significant attention in light of COVID-19 and global lockdowns. The pandemic, while causing immense social and economic damages, also provides an opportunity to rethink urban
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Urban nature: A shared solution to the climate and biodiversity crises?
Cities are increasingly being recognised as key arenas for governing and tackling global environmental challenges, including the interlinked climate and biodiversity crises. Yet urban areas have historically exacerbated these issues. Cities are estimated to account for 60-75% of global GHG
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Urban Nature Explorer
As a web-based interactive platform, the Urban Nature Explorer aims to support the development and the visualization 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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International Comparison of Nature-Based Solutions
This report explores the dynamics and politics of urban nature-based solutions innovations by comparing governance arrangements, public participation, financing mechanisms, innovation patterns and social impacts associated with the emergence and deployment of 54 nature-based solutions interventions
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Creating Green Cities podcast
Creating Green Cities is a podcast on urban-nature based solutions, explained through stories of inspiring innovators from across Europe who have used their passion and creativity to make cities greener. They talk to guests from Barcelona, Budapest, Malmö and Utrecht to find out why green roofs are
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The virtual exhibition on urban nature
The virtual exhibition on urban nature provides a collection of insights into the benefits, opportunities and challenges of mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities. It complements a physical exhibition on urban nature that we have planned to take place in some cities in Europe. In addition,
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Urban Nature Compendium in Spanish and French
This compendium connects together the key themes of nature, cities and innovation. It discusses how to assess what nature-based solutions can achieve in cities. It examines how innovation is taking place in cities. And it analyses the potential of nature-based solutions to help respond to climate
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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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Value and Benefit Assessment Methods Database for Urban Nature-based Solutions
The database provides open access to knowledge about where, when, and under which circumstances, integrated multi-functional and systemic impacts of nature-based solutions can be assessed. This database was created from a review of assessment methods (i.e. frameworks, models and tools) currently
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Innovation Pathways
What are the enabling conditions and driving forces for nature-based solutions in the context of urban sustainability transitions? And how do innovation pathways play a role for nature-based solutions? Innovation pathways are a journey: from the initial idea and its demonstration, to its broader
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Innovation Pathways for Urban Forests
Urban forest is an emerging concept which not only incorporates trees, but other vegetation in streets, parks, plazas, river embankments, wetlands, railway corridors, community gardens, and on buildings as well as the soil and water that supports them. Urban forests have been around for generations
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Innovation Pathways for Water Challenges
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. One in four large cities already faces water stress, and demand for water is
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Innovation Pathways for Climate Adaptation
Nature-based solutions are key for adapting to climate change impacts, such as floods, heat waves, drought, and windstorms. Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation also have the potential to increase stakeholder involvement for sustainable climate governance and planning. Challenges
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Valuing and Investing in Nature-based Solutions for Urban Sustainability
The implementation and mainstreaming of nature-based solutions to address urban sustainability challenges is highly dependent both on how they come to be valued and the ways in which they can secure investment over the long-term. They convened a small expert panel to exchange ideas and evidence on
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Business Models
The Business Models Catalogue for urban nature-based solutions presents eight different business models for urban NbS. These were identified based on 54 in-depth case studies of urban NbS, both in- and outside of Europe. These models explain which values propositions can drive urban NbS funding.
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Citizen Engagement
Diverse values, interests and needs are associated with nature-based solutions. It is therefore important that they are taken into account in decision-making. As engaging communities contribute to realising all the sustainability benefits of nature-based solutions the "Citizen Engagement
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Governance Solutions
The research presented in "Effective Governance Solutions" suggests that different opportunities should be explored to connect top-down policies that promote nature-based solutions for biodiversity, climate and environmental goals and bottom-up initiatives that stress their value in
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