Case studies

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  • Urban hybrid dunes in Barcelona

    Constructing and maintaining semi-fixed dunes on heavily used urban beaches to optimize the flows of ecosystem services, through collaboration with administrations and stakeholders. Dunes play a central role in coastal defence and protection against sea level rise linked to climatic change....

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  • Barcelona: Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Enhancing Resilience to Climate Change

    p> City of Barcelona.Figure 1 Barcelona seen from the Collserola Park. Source: City of Barcelona.

     

    Challenges

    Barcelona is highly populated and one of the busiest tourist

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  • Sofia Region: Resilience and attractiveness by introducing innovative approaches for the governance of better regulated urbanisation

    Sofia City

    One of the big long-term development goals of Sofia is the resilient and sustainable polycentric urbanization at the metropolitan level based on existing settlements and limitation of the promiscuous consumption of land. Retaining the population of smaller towns and villages of the Northern part

    Resilient growth of peripheral settlements.

     SUPPORT FOR CONCENTRATED DECONCENTRATION. Sofia General Master plan with timescale 2030 has as one of its major goals to alleviate the investors’ development pressure to the capital City. It creates spatial preconditions for...

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  • The restoration of the former saltworks in southern France

    1 Restore a more natural hydrological functioning that reconnects the surrounding hydrosystems (including the lagoons located further inland, the Mediterranean Sea and the Rhône River).

    2 Restore the natural ecosystems characteristic of coastal lagoons and sandy...

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  • Commonwealth Athletes Village, Glasgow - integrated SuDS development

    Developed as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the Athlete’s Village is a purpose-built, low carbon village. Set in Glasgow’s East End, the site hosted athletes during the games but now provides homes for a new community. A site of approximately 35 hectares, post-games over a

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  • Dublin - NbS for a more sustainable city by 2030

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    In its 2016-2022 Development Plan the city has set out a vision for a ‘Sustainable, Resilient Dublin based on economy, environment and equity’ (1). The Development Plan’s principles for green infrastructure include sustainable buildings which should use ‘sustainable energy technologies and...

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  • Environmental recovery of a quarry ATEg32 - Gaggiano, Trezzano sul Naviglio, Zibido San Giacomo

    Quarry restoration ATEg32

    This project aims to include : 
    • transformation of some portions of agricultural land in wooded strips and recovery of some rows, that were not in a good state of preservation;
    • creation of a new area for the relocation of the working installations;
    • fulfillment of the...

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  • Green Roof of Aimé Césaire School Complex

    Aimé Césaire Primary School: A Garden Home (Source: urbannext.net/aime-cesaire-primary-school)

    In 2013, an experimental and educational project, conceived as a garden home for a school, was built at the heart of the green district known as ‘Duke’s Meadow’ on the Île de Nantes. The building’s roof was covered by 2,700 square meters of natural dunes.

    The objective is to create a...

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  • Kraków, Poland

    Kraków with its surroundings. City map taken from the document “Directions for the development and management of green areas in Kraków for 2017-2030” and showing different catogeries of green areas in Kraków

    Kraków is a strong urban unit with a population of over 800k and a

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  • City of Gelsenkirchen, Germany

    Gelsenkirchen is located in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the middle of the largest polycentric conurbation in Germany, the Ruhr metropolis (Ruhr area) with over 5 million inhabitants and has 264,710 inhabitants (September 25, 2020). Around 31% of the people living in Gelsenkirchen are German

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  • ReDuna - Restoration of S. João da Caparica Sand Dunes

    ReDuna aerial view

    One of the consequences of global warming is the sea level rise. In urban settings along coastlines, rising seas threaten not only houses, but also several types of infrastructures such as industries,  roads, power plants, freshwater aquifers, etc. Rising sea-level also pushes destructive storm...

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  • City of Gelsenkirchen, Germany

    Gelsenkirchen is located in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in the middle of the largest polycentric conurbation in Germany, the Ruhr metropolis (Ruhr area) with over 5 million inhabitants and has 264,710 inhabitants (September 25, 2020). Around 31% of the people living in Gelsenkirchen are German

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  • A CORUÑA: AN URBAN GARDENS GREEN NETWORK

    A Coruña is a seaside city located in the Ártabro Gulf, north-west of Spain, with a population of 244,000 inhabitants, stunning landscapes and built on over two thousand years of architectural heritage. A Coruña has a diverse economy, mainly based on the service sector, ranging from tourism to...

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  • Kristianstads Vattenrike - Sweden’s oldest UNESCO biosphere reserve

    In 2005, the UN agency UNESCO approved Kristianstads Vattenriket as a biosphere reserve covering 100 000 ha, and one of 700 in the world. This means Kristianstads Vattenrike is an internationally recognized  model for sustainable development. The Vattenrike encompasses two thirds of the...

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  • The Finnish River Management Association Virho

    The Finnish River Management Association Virho (Virtavesien hoitohidstys Virho ry), was nominated for the Nordic Council Environment Prize 2022 with the theme of nature-based solutions. The Finnish River Management Association has the goal to revive and secure the living conditions of the entire...

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  • UNaLab - Biofilter, Vuores, Tampere, Finland

    UNaLab Biofilter Vuores

    A biofilter was implemented in Vuores to treat urban runoff and runoff from a nearby dog park. The biofilter uses sand as filtering media and the vegetation planted on top of the filter includes plants that tolerate changing moisture conditions. The biofilter is equipped with the information...

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  • Project Coastbusters Biogenic reefs concept

    Coastbusters

     The public-private Coastbusters consortium aims to study and translate desired coastal protection functionality into designs that make use of the capability of ecosystem engineering species. In other words, does ecosystem creation and Nature-based Solutions’ technical design provide a more...

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  • NBSEduworld Case Study: ReDuna Project – Ecological restoration of sand dunes at São João da Caparica and Cova do Vapor beaches

    Almada municipality:Ecological restoration of a coastal sand dunes ecosystem

    The ReDuna project aims to restore the natural capacity of the Almada sand dune ecosystem to healthily respond to natural drivers, enhancing its resilience to sea level rise and storms, and providing an excellent teaching tool to demonstrate, in a practical way, the benefits of nature-based...

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