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Flood Damage Assessment
Methodology for assessing direct and indirect flood based economic losses to allow prioritisation and evaluation of adaptation measures.
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NetworkNature Factsheet - Nature-based solutions: are we restoring our relationship with nature in Europe?
To achieve a sustainable future, we should work with, not against nature to achieve global goals. Nature-based solutions are a great pathway forward. This Factsheet was produced by NetworkNature to provide an overview of some of our current societal challenges in different sectors and practical
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OPERAS D4.5 Good practice guidelines for instrument choice and tutorials for instrument application
About “Guidance on choice and application of instruments” Task 4.5 coordinates the work and information flow across WP4 Instruments and produced an overall synthesis of the operational potential of ES/NC instruments, a road map for their application and practice guidance for choice and use of ES/
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Natural Capital Assessments at the National and Sub-national Level
Almost all economic activities are dependent on 'natural capital' in some form or another. Natural capital refers to the stocks of the Earth's natural assets and resources, such as soil,water, air and biodiversity. Indeed, for business operations to successfully function long-term,
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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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NetworkNature Knowledge Brief 2: Ensuring the quality of nature-based solutions - perspectives of key stakeholder groups
This Knowledge Brief produced by NetworkNature aims to explore and analyse different perspectives and perceptions of high-quality nature-based solutions (NBS). The brief provides an overview from key stakeholder groups and draws recommendations for practitioners and policy-makers on how to ensure
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Comprehensive Framework for NBS Assessment
A product of Workpackage 4 of the EU-H2020 project PHUSICOS is a comprehensive framework to verify the performances of NBSs in risk management processes from both technical and socio-economic points of view. The comprehensive framework assesses the beneficial role of NBSs in ecosystem services,
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STREAMLINE
STREAMLINE is a new format for semi-structured, one-on-one interviews. In its current form STREAMLINE consists of a set of colorful, laminated A3 canvasses. Set in the future, each canvas invites the interviewee to set out their vision on a particular topic through a series of questions and tiles.
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Urban Nature Atlas
The Urban Nature Atlas is a repository that contains 1000 examples of Nature-Based Solutions from across 100 European cities. You can use the Search icon to identify the projects fitting your interests. A map will be updated to display the results of your search, and a list of all relevant projects
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Why is nature restoration critical for climate mitigation in the EU?
It will be impossible for the EU to meet its climate neutrality goal by 2050 and the LULUCF land sink target without a significant scaling up of nature restoration. Nature restoration is central to our efforts to mitigate climate change as it reduces and avoids emissions from land, enhances the
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Can ‘nature-based solutions’ help address climate change?
These so-called “nature-based solutions” are key to many countries’ and companies’ plans to achieve net-zero in the coming decades. Nature-based solutions also featured more prominently than before at the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last month. The term briefly made an appearance in a
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NBS Financing in Front Runner Cities
Connecting Nature aims to support cities in securing financing to support the large-scale implementation of nature-based solutions. Within a relatively short period of three years, Connecting Nature has had a major impact in raising the knowledge and awareness of partner cities about alternative
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Innovation in NBS Co-Desing and Implementation
Article published in Sustainability. From the published abstract: Impacts in the form of innovation and commercialization are essential components of publicly funded research projects. PHUSCOS ("According to Nature" in Greek), an EU Horizon 2020 Program (H2020) Innovation Action project
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Transdisciplinarity and Knowledge Co-Production
CoKnow Consulting is building capacity for inter- and transdisciplinary processes and supports you and your stakeholders to co-produce knowledge and co-design solutions for sustainability. Together we co-develop the right approaches, e.g.: • Design inter- and transdisciplinary processes tailored
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A quantitative review of relationships between ecosystem services
These are the figures that are published in "A quantitative review of relationships between ecosystem services" in Ecological Indicators in 2016. In this publication, we analysed 67 case studies that studied 476 pairwise ES combinations. The relationships between these pairs of ES were
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Ten research findings about Nature-Based Enterprises
The first results from the Connecting Nature research survey of nature-based enterprises!
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Ecological Restoration – a means of conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods
Many of the world’s ecosystems have undergone significant degradation with negative impacts on biological diversity and peoples’ livelihoods. There is now a growing realisation that we will not be able to conserve the earth’s biological diversity through the protection of critical areas alone. This
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Method Factsheet - Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RULSE)
The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) is an empirical erosion model recognised as a standard method to calculate the average risk of erosion on arable land. It developed from the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) developed in the US Department of Agriculture and has other similar
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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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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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