Nature-based solutions resources
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Podcast - Green Spaces - Just one Thing with Michael Mosley
Michael explores the science behind the soothing power of nature, revealing how nature not only makes us feel good in the moment, but how it also has a more lasting effect on our stress levels and our mental health. Michael speaks to Professor Ming Kuo at the University of Illinois in Chicago, who
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Geneva Nature-Based Solutions Dialogues
The Geneva Nature-Based Solutions dialogues aim to facilitate further engagement and discussion among the stakeholders in International Geneva and beyond, in the lead-up to a critical year for nature and society. This Nature-Based Solutions journey will bring together multiple actors from the
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Calls for Experts - EKLIPSE
Call for Experts Experts in environmental impact and ecosystem services assessments, governance and/or biodiversity policy with particular experience in the mitigation hierarchy are invited to apply to join an Expert Working Group (EWG) Description of the request: How can ecosystem services
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The Resilience Blog
The Resilience Blog is published by the European Forest Institute's Resilience Research Program, which focuses on forest-related risks such as climate change and the role of forests and trees in urban areas. They post both in English and German to address local and international readers.
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Saving biodiversity: why our mental and physical health depends on it
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, more of us are noticing the variety of animals, trees, and flowers in our back gardens or local park - and how being in contact with nature can influence our happiness. This variety of life is known as biodiversity and it’s essential for our health and wellbeing. We
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VALLI DEL NATISONE FOREST THERAPY STATION
Even though it is still in its early stages, Valli del Natisone Forest therapy Station in Friuli Venezia Giulia is the first initiative for forest therapy in Italy. Focusing on evidence-based research, it uses healing properties of trees and forests for therapeutic purposes with a specific focus on
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Waste Management of The Food Industry – Hazards, Risks and Solutions
Uncontrolled landfill sites are increasingly being used as a food-waste disposal method. These sites are often source of diseases and unpleasant odours, providing a medium for microorganisms, parasites, and rodents to breed. They can favour the formation of leachates (polluting liquids) that filter
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Water Management at Urban Areas
This learning scenario encourages students to learn and care about the importance of water management to tackle urban challenges such as floods and disruption of the water cycle in the urban environment via nature-based solutions (NbS). Through the activities, students will work as scientists
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Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
Climate mitigation and adaptation are attempts to slow down the global climate-change process. This can be done in different ways: • reducing the greenhouse gases that go into the atmosphere (1) • absorbing existing CO2 from the air (2) Plants and trees absorb and reduce = CO2 present in the
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Exploring ecosystem services and nature-based solutions to urban problems
The purpose of this learning scenario is to explore an urban ecosystem of a city, analysing its ecosystem services and determining whether it acts as a nature-based solution (NbS) to challenges such as diminishing biodiversity, urban heat islands and urban decay. Although this learning scenario
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The Travelling Fox
In this learning scenario, students are familiarised with the concept of social and environmental justice through the story, photos, and videos of Foxy Travel – a fox who likes travelling across Europe. Via web 2.0 apps (for example: Padlet, MindMup, WordItOut), students analyse Foxy’s “
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Transform your school/town: design a constructed wetland
All over Europe, it is often possible to observe water resources being wasted while watering gardens. At the same time, many countries, especially in Southern Europe, face a lack of water during warm summer time periods and they cannot water green areas. These, and other places, could benefit from
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Green Jobs Create Economic Opportunities
In this lesson, students in their final year of high school will reflect on how their future jobs can be a part of the green economy, paying special attention to how they can integrate Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) and thereby influence their local economies and communities positively. After an
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A Green School is a Healthy School
The main goal of this learning scenario is to help students realize that the school environment, where they spend a lot of time, is very important for their health, well-being, concentration and studying efficiency. The aim is also to help students become more conscious about the natural
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School Garden, Street Garden
Green areas are increasingly scarce in cities and in schools and, in some cities, there are many abandoned green spaces and parks. These could become places of environmental education, biodiversity, and healthy recreation for people, improving cities’ ecosystems. The aim of this activity is to
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Nature-based solutions to prevent forest fires and reduce risk disasters caused by deforestation
Nature-based solutions (NbS) could be defined as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human wellbeing and biodiversity benefits” (Cohen-Sacham, et al., 2016). NbS
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Nature Changing Our Surroundings
The lessons built for this learning scenario are based on photos of different cities. By analysing photos, students endeavour to perceive the logic behind using nature in solving problems that cities might face. Then students try to define whether their school faces any of the analysed problems in
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GRETA – Green Relevant Environment to All (understanding NbS)
The climate change activist Greta Thunberg is an “influencer” of the teenage generation. What aspects of her presentation “Nature Now” make her a role model of learning more about nature-based solutions (NbS)? By using their critical thinking, students are going to discover more about the
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Let’s make our school a growing place!
Nature-based solutions have the potential to provide multiple benefits across a range of sustainability challenges faced by cities. They can help to limit the impacts of climate change, enhance biodiversity, and improve environmental quality while contributing to economic activities and social
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Green infrastructure and NbS in dialogue: How to integrate NbS in your technical classes
The purpose of this learning scenario is to introduce students, especially those at technical and vocational high schools, to Nature-Based Solutions (NbS), using the concept of green infrastructure applied to a practical project. To begin with, the teacher presents NbS and their benefits and
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