Nature-based solutions resources
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Guidance on Co-creating NbS CLEVER Cities
This guidance contains a toolkit for the implementation of the co-creation process, including the 16 steps envisioned in a complete co-creation pathway to support cities to achieve successful implementation of nature-based solutions. On this website you can find all the useful tools, resources to
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Using ecosystem risk assessment science in ecosystem restoration
Recent global initiatives in ecosystem restoration offer an unprecedented opportunity to improve biodiversity conservation, human health and well-being. Ecosystems form a core component of biodiversity. They provide humans with multiple benefits – a stable climate and breathable air, water, food
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Video: The future we can and must chose: nature-based solutions
This is a creative product of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative at the University of Oxford explaining nature-based solutions as a concept and their importance (www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org). Illustrations by Cécile Girardin and Isabel Key; animation by Matthew Mullholland.
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Website: What are Nature-based Solutions?
The Nature-based Solution Initiatives (Oxford University) website outlines the basics and a wealth of resources on the topic. Nature-based solutions (NbS) involve working with nature to address societal challenges, providing benefits for both human well-being and biodiversity. Specifically they are
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Website - Wikipedia: Nature-based solutions
The Wikipedia entry page for nature-based solutions, that covers basic information on the concept ranging from its origins to present day discourse.
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Presentation on financing coastal protection
This powerpoint slide provides a case study on a successful example of financing nature-based solutions for coastal protection: Keeping the floods at bat through nature restoration in Medmerry. The scheme was funded through the Endangered Landscapes Programme and developed by the Royal Society for
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Presentation on climate-proofing cities through nature
This powerpoint slide provides a case study on a successful example of nature-based solution applied in the urban context: The implementation of urban parks and green areas with sustainable urban drainage systems to handle excess rainwater in Aarhus. This initiative was implemented under the SPARK
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Presentation on Reducing Disaster Risk through Restoration
This powerpoint slide provides a case study on a successful example of nature-based solution applied for disaster risk reduction: the Restoration of the Isar River in Germany. The initiative was implemented under the PHUSICOS project. More information on the case study is also available below.
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Presentation on Expanding Sustainable Agriculture
This powerpoint slide provides a case study on a successful example of nature-based solution applied in the agriculture sector: Agroforestry to make the agricultural systems in Montpellier more resilient to the effects of climate change. The agroforestry scheme was implemented under the SAFE
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Nature-based solutions State of the art in EU-funded projects
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 adaptation (including
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Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation and coastal resilience: Analysis of EU-funded projects
This document summarises outcomes relating to flood mitigation and coastal resilience 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 innovation projects
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Nature-based solutions improving water quality & waterbody conditions. Analysis of EU-funded projects
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 innovation projects were
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Nature-based solutions for microclimate regulation and air quality: Analysis of EU-funded projects
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 a tremendous effect
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Nature-based solutions towards sustainable communities: Analysis of EU-funded projects
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 interventions that promise
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Nature-based solutions for climate mitigation: Analysis of EU-funded projects
Achieving the ambitious goals established by the European Union will require not only transformation of our energy and transport systems, but measures across the economy as well as efforts to harness the potential of nature to contribute to both mitigating climate change and enhancing our
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Biodiversity and nature-based solutions: Analysis of EU-funded projects
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 - are central to
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Nature-based solutions Triple Win Toolkit
This Toolkit offers guidance to achieve, through Nature-based Solutions (NbS), a 'triple win' to enhance biodiversity, address climate change, and reduce poverty in the context of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend, especially for the International Climate Finance (ICF) programme
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Community Organizing Toolkit on Ecosystem Restoration
Ecosystem degradation has reached the far corners of our planet from our precious rainforests to our priceless reefs. Irresponsible human activities have caused and exacerbated our climate crisis and ecosystem degradation, forcing us to cope with biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, dramatic
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