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NATURE-BASED PLAY Fostering connections for children’s wellbeing and climate resilience
The Nature-based Play publication explores the important relationship between play, nature and climate resilience, considering the perspectives of leading urban development, early childhood, play and nature-based solutions experts. This is followed by case studies from cities around the world that
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Financing and Business Models Guidebook
This guidebook introduces the topic of financing and business models for nature-based solutions, identifies some common challenges and enablers to financing and presents a step-by-step guide to securing financing.
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Nature-based solutions coupled with advanced technologies: An opportunity for decentralized water reuse in cities
Decentralized water reuse in cities is a prominent alternative to mainstream top-down models for urban water treatment, which are based on centralized, linear dynamics of resource management. In this sense, Nature-based Solutions (“green” technologies) coupled with advanced technologies (“grey”
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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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Urban agriculture - URBES Facthseet #7
This factsheet will explain the importance of urban agriculture: the ecosystem services that urban agriculture provides for human wellbeing, food security and urban resilience; and the need for integrated planning across sectors to ensure that the ecosystem services that urban agriculture provides
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European Forests for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation
This Future Brief brings together the latest evidence on the ability of Europe’s forests to support biodiversity while removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere, while also providing ecosystem services necessary for climate adaptation and our well-being, and contributing to the bioeconomy and
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Designing for planetary boundary cities
The planetary boundaries signify the Earth’s capacity to tolerate change and set out the science-based limits that must not be surpassed if the Earth is to remain hospitable for future generations. This timely report explores how we can design the built environment within the ‘safety rails’
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PHUSICOS Action Database
The PHUSICOS Action Database is a product innovation which establishes a comprehensive state-of-research evidence-base and information management platform. Implemented NBSs related to extreme hydro-meteorological events in rural and mountainous landscapes are accessible though this open-source
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An impact evaluation framework to support planning and evaluation of nature-based solutions projects
Nature‐Based Solutions (NBS) are solutions to societal challenges that are inspired and supported by nature. The European Commission requested the EKLIPSE project to help building up an evidence and knowledge base on the benefits and challenges of applying NBS. In response to the request, the
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TELEPÜLÉSI KLÍMAADAPTÁCIÓ: Klímaadaptív gyepgazdálkodás a városban
A Veszprém város önkormányzatának megbízásából elkészült dokumentum a város és a természet kapcsolatát, valamint a város működésének hatását a klímára mutatja be. Összefoglalja az urbanizáció történetének következményeit, vagyis azt, hogy a népességrobbanás, a beépítettség növekedése és a termelési
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Taking Action for Urban Nature - Governance Solutions
The research presented in "Effective Governance Solutions" 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
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PATHWAYS FOR SYSTEMIC INTEGRATION OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
This report identifies and elaborates the key stepping stones – pivotal actions – that can unlock the potential for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions. Using the examples of climate change and biodiversity, they examine how stepping stones can be aligned to generate promising pathways for
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ESLab services test and demonstration site
The test and demonstration version of ESLab services provide 1) visualization of municipal greenhouse gas budgets in Finland, and 2) High resolution carbon budget data for a pilot study region in southern Finland.
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State of the Art and Latest Advances in Exploring Business Models for Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer multiple solutions to urban challenges simultaneously, but realising funding for NBS remains a challenge. When the concept of NBS for societal challenges was first defined by the EC in 2017, financing was recognised as one of the major challenges to its
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GREENING EUROPEAN CITIES: ACCELERATING THE UPTAKE OF URBAN NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the barriers and opportunities influencing the uptake of nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban regimes, as well as the underlying factors or conditions explaining these. They understand urban regimes as being shaped by institutional structures
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Nature4Cities - Social acceptance method
The Nature4Cities social acceptance method is an NBS implementation support tool. This methodological tool aims to study social acceptance (socio-political, community and market acceptance) and barriers (social, economic and cultural) as key factors for the implementation of NBS projects. It is
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Final Report - EKLIPSE request on EU renewable energy policies, global biodiversity, and the UN SDGs
This report provides a summary of findings by the EKLIPSE ‘Expert Working Group analysing how are European energy policies affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services in countries globally. This question was submitted by the Centre for Development and Environment University of Bern to support the
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GIZ ValuES - Method Profile: Different interview formats
Interviews are a key method for obtaining first-hand information and field data on any aspect that is of interest. If well-conducted and properly analysed, interviews can significantly advance understanding of complex issues. Various formats exist: An in-depth interview captures how people value or
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MAINSTREAMING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS Biodiversity
This report specifically addresses the mainstreaming of nature-based solutions for biodiversity. Nature-based solutions are increasingly integrated in urban development practices. They have the potential to effectively address biodiversity challenges through conserving nature, restoring nature, and
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Supporting climate resilience of communities in and around protected areas
This manual outlines a practical and pragmatic community-based resilience and adaptation planning process, offering step-by-step guidance on initiating the planning process, engaging the community in it and refining and implementing action plans. It is aimed at practitioners from non-governmental
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