Governance innovation through nature-based solutions - Policy Brief December 2019

Understanding the factors that characterized successful nature-based solution governance models is essential for advancing policy instruments and institutional reform that can better enable the implementation and up-scaling of these solutions. Researchers at IIASA and the University of Geneva described and compared the institutional, legal, social, and economic factors—that is, governance frameworks— for initiating, planning, designing, and implementing nature-based solutions in three successful cases as solutions to climate risks in mountain landscapes.