Nature-based solutions resources
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Urban Nature Maps for Glasgow & Edinburgh
The maps show Edinburgh and Glasgow as a cities of nature, bringing green and blue spaces to the fore – the parks, woodlands, playing fields, nature reserves, rivers, and coastline. It incorporates symbols marking places to walk and cycle, take in views, and geodiversity sites. It shows open space
- Policy Brief
FUTURE BRIEF: The solution is in nature
Nature-based solutions are our best ally in the fight against climate change and help deliver the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. These solutions bring multiple benefits — they empower people and communities, they increase resilience, and they provide jobs and business opportunities. Scaling up
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Gaps and opportunities to sustainable urban development through nature-based solutions Policy Brief
The multifunctional character of nature-based solutions (NbS) enables them to provide responses to both social and environmental challenges. Analysis has shown that there is significant potential for NbS to help achieve sustainable urban development objectives. Nonetheless, challenges for
- Guidance
Greater Manchester Natural Capital User Guide
The User Guide gives an overview with links to the range of natural capital tools available, with step by step instructions on how to use them. Short case studies provide examples of how people have used the tools, and a ‘frequently asked questions’ section helps to address some of the barriers
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Internet of Nature Podcast
The Internet of Nature Podcast explores how increasingly "smart" cities have embraced technology for mobility, lighting, and waste management but have left urban ecology behind in the digital revolution. Join Nadina Galle as she interviews entrepreneurs & innovators on their
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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 to address global societal challenges
This report has been prepared as part of an effort by IUCN to define its position on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and plan for future work to advance this concept and support effective implementation of NbS to enhance ecosystem services provision and address societal challenges. The report proposes
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- Guidance
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Nature for All Website
#NatureForAll is a global movement to inspire love of nature. It is founded on the knowledge that the more people experience nature, the more they appreciate, love, and care for it. Experiences and connections with nature are an important foundation for lifelong support and action for parks and
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- Guidance
NbS Selection Tool
The Urban GreenUP ‘NbS Selection Tool’ has been designed to help local governments choose from the many NbS options in our NbS catalogue. This tool is a decision support tool – it’s designed to give suggestions that may help improve you choose the right NbS for you, based on both your city’s
- Paper
Mapping the Research Landscape of Nature-Based Solutions in Urbanism
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are an innovative concept that mimics the processes of natural ecosystems, popularized principally in the European Union. With a substantial body of literature amassed since the term’s inception in 2015, there is a need to systematically review existing literature to
- Training
We Value Nature Training Resources
Many businesses are starting to recognise that the natural capital crisis is a business crisis and they need to better identify, measure, value and prioritise their impacts and dependencies. Managing your natural capital impacts and dependencies is a journey that can sometimes feel overwhelming
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We Value Nature Digital Media Library
Curated multimedia content showing the business case for a natural capital approach. Most content is under open licences and you are encouraged to download, remix and share your creations.
- Policy Brief
Opinion Fact sheet: Bio-diverse cities and regions beyond 2020 at the UN CBD COP 15 and in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
The political objective of this own-initiative opinion is to adopt the official position of the CoR to disseminate in the ongoing preparatory meetings and events towards the 15th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD COP 15) and consequently to
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NetworkNature EU Green Week Event 2021 Presentations & Recording
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as part of the Network Nature H2020 project, hosted a virtual European Green Week partner event on May 31st 2021, titled “Joining forces for health and nature recovery”. Find the session’s presentations from Celine Charveriat and Matthias
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- Guidance
Nature4Cities - NbS Dynamic Assessment Methodology Support Document
The evaluation of the environmental benefits of NbS is one of the key solutions paving the way for resilient cities, and to strengthen urban planning strategies. A strong need of new governance, business, financing models and economic impact assessment tools for sustainable cities with NbS (urban
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Nature4Cities platform
The main objective of Nature4Cities project is to increase the awareness about the Nature Based Solution (NbS) and to promote new collaborative models for NbS uptake. Following this purpose, the Nature4Cities (N4C) Platform has been developed including a set of tools with the aim of spread
- Software
Nature4Cities - NoiseModelling
Among the tools developed in the scope of Nature4Cities, one is dedicated to the assessment of noise. NoiseModelling is a free and open-source tool designed to produce environmental noise maps on very large urban areas. Urban planners can use NoiseModelling in order to carry out impact studies
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Nature4Cities - Diagnostic of your city's trends with Colouree and/or Greencity
Do you work for a council, as policy-maker or in urban or green spaces planning? Colouree and Greencity will help you set up an exhaustive and ongoing monitoring system to (i) identify the best place for your NbS projects, (ii) support data-driven and collective decision-making and (iii) monitor
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Nature4cities - Participation tool CitizenSay
Involve citizens in your project with our NbS projects participation tool CitizenSay. Are you a policy maker and want to engage and involve multiple stakeholders in your NbS project? Or are you a citizen or a specialist and you want to contribute to developing projects adapted to your needs and
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Nature4Cities - Implementation model pre-selection tool to find the most suitable business, governance and financing model
Are you a practitioner, urban planner or decision-maker looking for new business, governance and financing models to support your NbS project implementation? Our Implementation Models (IM) Preselector helps you build the models fitting your context by providing you with recommendations and
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