Nature-based solutions resources
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MAINSTREAMING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS Biodiversity
This report specifically addresses the mainstreaming of nature-based solutions for biodiversity. Nature-based solutions are increasingly integrated in urban development practices. They have the potential to effectively address biodiversity challenges through conserving nature, restoring nature, and
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PATHWAYS FOR SYSTEMIC INTEGRATION OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
This report identifies and elaborates the key stepping stones – pivotal actions – that can unlock the potential for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions. Using the examples of climate change and biodiversity, they examine how stepping stones can be aligned to generate promising pathways for
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GREENING EUROPEAN CITIES: ACCELERATING THE UPTAKE OF URBAN NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the barriers and opportunities influencing the uptake of nature-based solutions (NbS) in urban regimes, as well as the underlying factors or conditions explaining these. They understand urban regimes as being shaped by institutional structures
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CITY FOR BIODIVERSITY: THE ROLES OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS IN EUROPEAN CITIES
This report summarises the first analysis of nature-based solutions (NbS) across European cities in terms of their contributions to biodiversity goals. Drawing on a sample of 199 nature-based solutions from the Urban Nature Atlas1 established by NATURVATION, which mainly involved three types of
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Exploring Experiences of Nature-Based Solutions through International Cities
Explore experiences of nature-based solutions through a selection of posters on Melbourne, Cape Town, Boston, Mexico City, Tianjin and Winnipeg.
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Monetary Value of European Nature-based Solutions
Cities and regional governments are making critical contributions to sustainability and climate change, and are key sites of achieving the aims of the Convention on Biodiversity and the Green New Deal. This study demonstrates the economic value of nature-based solutions throughout Europe, in order
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Engaging Citizens and Stakeholders with Key Themes and Messages
Explore key themes and messages through a selection of posters. The first set of posters highlights Protect, Restore and Thrive. The second set of posters highlights Working with Nature, Diversfying Options and Multiplying Benefits.
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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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