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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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Connecting Nature communication, social media & events
In 2017, when Connecting Nature began, the concept of nature-based solutions was in its infancy. Since then, our partners have played an important role in creating and raising awareness about nature-based solutions and about the Connecting Nature Framework as a methodological approach to
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UN-Habitat Report on Cities and Pandemics: towards a more just, green and healthy future
The UN-Habitat’s report - Cities and Pandemics: Towards a more just, green and healthy future – evidences how cities can reduce the impact of future pandemics and become more prosperous, fair and environmentally friendly. The Report calls for the response and recovery to pandemics to be based on
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Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Social Inclusion
Greater understanding of social inclusion is vital to decision making about mainstreaming nature-based solutions. Social inclusion in this context means understanding how vulnerable, marginalised and under-represented voices are included (rather than excluded) in processes and practices to
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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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Method Factsheet - Simple Matrix Approach
Matrix Approaches are a quick and simple way to get an overall spatially-explicit picture of the ES in case study areas. The method is based on the idea of linking tabular spreadsheet data and spatial data together, i.e. joining external datasets to spatial units to create maps. The spreadsheet
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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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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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Urban Nature-based Solutions
This publication by WWF and Ecoact aims to share the important role of cities adopting nature targets to help restore the relationship between human and the natural world to realize the promise of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for a net-zero world. In this document eight successful nature-
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Co$ting Nature
Co$ting Nature is a web based tool for natural capital accounting and analysing the ecosystem services provided by natural environments (i.e. nature's benefits), identifying the beneficiaries of these services and assessing the impacts of human interventions. This Policy Support System (PSS)
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GUÍA DE LA INFRAESTRUCTURA VERDE MUNICIPAL
Esta Guía se redacta con el objetivo de dar respuesta a las necesidades que los responsables municipales tienen a la hora de gestionar de forma adecuada la infraestructura verde situada en su ámbito municipal. Está destinada principalmente a apoyar a los técnicos municipales y a los cargos
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Bridges to Local Economies
Based on some five years of European research within the TURAS program on transitions, resilience and sustainability, “Bridges to Local Economies” is a handbook looking at the role of the ‘bridging actor’ in facilitating resilient and sustainable local economies. While the book has a focus on
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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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The BUFFER project - how research allowed classifying Marine Protected Areas for better clarity in the sustainable use of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity
The BUFFER project has been awarded the second edition of the BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact, highlighting its excellent achievements in terms of advancing science and practice of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The project was funded under the 2011-12 BiodivERsA joint call on “
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No business on a dead planet — why adopting an ambitious post-2020 GBF makes economic sense
Nature is at a tipping point. More than 1 million species are threatened by extinction 1, 75% of world’s land and 66% of the marine environment 2 are significantly altered by humans, and the temperature is expected to rise between 2.6°C and 3.9°C 3. The science is clear—the nature crisis must be
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Low Power Wide Area Network for wildlife conservation
When facing nearly every major conservation problem from human-wildlife conflict to climate change, monitoring biodiversity and the movement of species is essential to our understanding of the ecosystems we’re protecting. Building on its core radiofrequency engineering background, XeriusTracking
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LEVERGING PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTS IN ADAPTATION: The evolving role of climate finance in enabling a paradigm shift
In order to draw cross-national lessons on how climate finance can be used to unlock private sector investments in adaptation, we analyzed global climate finance flows and the project portfolios and the evolution of three multilateral climate funds (MCFs) between 2010 and 2020: the Pilot Program
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PhusicosVR - NbS demonstrators in Virtual Reality
The H2020 project PHUSICOS focused on demonstration sites for NbS implementations to reduce hydrometrological risks in rural environments. These implementations are difficult enough to envision for professionals familiar with them, such as landscape architects and infrastructure engineers, but for
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TESSA - Toolkit for Ecosystem Services Site-based Assessment
The TESSA toolkit provides practical guidance for measuring ecosystem services at the site scale.It effectively communicates the results to aid decision-making on a local level,which is an area existing tools have had limited applicability.TESSA provides scientifically robust information and a
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Nature4Cities - Geocluster4NBS
Discover inspiring projects and choose your NbS with the Nature4Cities project observatory and pre-selection tool Are you a policy-maker, or work as an engineer, and would like to obtain an overview of the potential of NbS for a more sustainable and liveable city? With Nature4Cities
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