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Handbook: Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions

The Handbook aims to provide decision-makers with a comprehensive NbS impact assessment framework, and a robust set of indicators and methodologies to assess impacts of nature-based solutions across 12 societal challenge areas: Climate Resilience; Water Management; Natural and Climate Hazards;

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Carbon Sequestration from a Greenhouse Gas Value perspective - Study and online application

Terrestrial ecosystems regulate climate by their exchange of greenhouse gases with the atmosphere. The "Greenhouse Gas Value"(GHGV) is a measure for the greenhouse gas benefit of preserving an ecosystem over a multi-year time frame, or the cost in terms of greenhouse gases when the

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Standardization in urban climate adaptation

The RESIN project has developed standardised approaches to help cities develop their adaptation strategies and strengthen their resilience. Key products are:  A tool for impact and vulnerability analysis (IVAVIA1);  a decision support tool (E-Guide);  a library of adaptation options;

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Valuing Nature: Demystifying Economic Valuation Paper

This paper covers the main issues, questions and principles surrounding economic valuation and is designed as an overview for those new to economic valuation. The paper brings together input from 120 volunteers from the economic valuation community. The paper provides a summary of agreed principles

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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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The multiple values of urban nature: Evidence from 1,000 European nature-based solutions

Urban nature-based solutions can be designed to deliver diverse social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits in parallel. This instills them with the potential to contribute to multiple policy goals simultaneously. Making optimal use of such solutions requires an understanding of the

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MAINSTREAMING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS Economic Regeneration

This report specifically addresses the mainstreaming of urban nature-based solutions for economic regeneration. They understand economic regeneration to be about the improvement and reinvigoration of urban areas. Nature-based solutions have the potential to encourage economic regeneration through

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TRENDING SCIENCE: About 97 % of land areas have been destroyed, research claims

How many pristine places are left undisturbed by oil, gas and mining activities, as well as land development? What is the extent of this damage to habitats? According to a study published in the journal ‘Frontiers in Forests and Global Change’, nearly 3 % of the world’s land remains ecologically

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Greening the Grey: A framework for integrated green grey infrastructure.

The University of Glasgow (with Oxford University and NERC) have created a Framework for green-grey infrastructure. The IGGI report includes16 detailed case studies and 30 vignette examples of costed, innovative real world exemplars where "green" habitat has been included in grey

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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Effective Governance Solutions

The research presented suggests that different opportunities should be explored to connect top-down policies that promote nature-based solutions for biodiversity, climate and environmental goals and bottom-up initiatives that stress their value in providing green space, well-being and economic

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Nature-Based Entrepreneurship: City Strategies & Recommendations

Nature-based entrepreneurship is a core element of the Connecting Nature Framework and supports the planning, delivery, and stewardship of large-scale nature-based solutions in cities. As the field of nature-based enterprises (NBE) and entrepreneurship is still novel, the Connecting Nature strategy

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Website - Wikipedia: Nature-based solutions

The Wikipedia entry page for nature-based solutions, that covers basic information on the concept ranging from its origins to present day discourse.

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URBAN GreenUP Nature-based solution selection tool

This tool is a decision support tool – it’s designed to give suggestions that may help you choose the right Nature-based solution (NbS) for you, based on both your city’s capabilities, and the outcomes you’d like to achieve. It can also be helpful in figuring out how to build your capacity to

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Internet of Nature Podcast

Can nature and technology — long viewed as opposing forces — work together to stabilize our climate, sustain our urban environments, and benefit our health? Internet of Nature Podcast is on a mission to find out. Join Dr. Nadina Galle as she interviews top CEOs & innovators on their

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TELEPÜLÉSI KLÍMAADAPTÁCIÓ: Adaptációs jó gyakorlatok

Az adatbázis célja a hazai önkormányzatok hatékony klímaadaptációjának elősegítése és a klímaváltozással szembeni sérülékenységük csökkentése hazai és nemzetközi jó gyakorlatok bemutatása által. A találatok célirányosan, a projekt, a technológia vagy a település megadásával szűrhetők.

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Barriers to ecological restoration in Europe: expert perspectives

Ecological restoration is key to counteracting anthropogenic degradation of biodiversity and to reducing disaster risk. However, there is limited knowledge of barriers hindering the wider implementation of restoration practices, despite high-level political priority to halt the loss of biodiversity

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Technical Solutions Guidebook

This Guidebook introduces the technical components that go into the planning, delivery, and long-term stewardship of nature-based solutions. It provides examples of technical aspects of nature-based solutions and shows why this is important to consider to be able to get NbS benefits (for example,

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Valuing and Investing in Nature-based Solutions for Urban Sustainability

The implementation and mainstreaming of nature-based solutions to address urban sustainability challenges is highly dependent both on how they come to be valued and the ways in which they can secure investment over the long-term. They convened a small expert panel to exchange ideas and evidence on

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Cost Benefit Analysis (iodine): Land-use typologies for strategic planning

The tool is intended to be used primarily for strategic planning (thinking about different management scenarios), for developing business cases, for reporting impacts, and for supporting instrument design. It is best applied at a broad scale. It is not suited to detailed analysis of short-term or

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Sustainable Infrastructure Tool Navigator

The Sustainable Infrastructure Tool Navigator was designed to help users identify the most relevant tools for their needs and goals. You can search our database by keyword or filter by types of tools, sectors and infrastructure lifecycle phases, amongst other things. Detailed information on each

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