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Principles for delivering urban Nature-based Solutions
This report aims to enable more ambitious targets related to NbS, climate resilience and ENG, and ultimately increase the application of NbS, both wild and cultivated, in urban areas. To achieve this, the report sets out six principles to assist organisations and individuals in the design,
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ESManage Project: Irish Freshwater Resources and Assessment of Ecosystem Services Provision
This thrid report from the ESManage Project gathers an extensive description of the current conditions of Ireland's Freshwater Resources and the identification of their associated Ecosystem Services.
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CLEVER Regional Solutions Catalogue
The CLEVER Regional Solutions Catalogue seeks to elevate the role of nature-based solutions (NbS) across the urban landscape. It aims to inspire uptake and continued energy for implementing Nature-based Solutions that meet the varied needs and requirements of modern cities.
- Guidance
Sub-urban Infrastructure Payments
Guidelines (including a toolkit) for estimating the funds needed for the development of primary and secondary infrastructure in sub-urban areas.
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Multibenefit Flood Retention
Guidelines for the development of a flood retention reservoir fostering water quality, biodiversity, local amenity value & environmental education.
- Policy Brief
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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UNCCD Urban-rural linkages and ecosystem restoration
This working paper from the UN proposes an urban-rural linkage perspective in relation to land and ecosystem restoration at a time of heightened urgency on multiple fronts at local, national and international levels. The combined impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss land degradation, and
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MEZŐGAZDASÁG: Tudástár a természetkímélő gazdálkodás témakörében
A közzétett tudásanyagokat a Natura 2000 hálózat égisze alatt publikálta a Magyar Madártani és Természetvédő Egyesület (MME) a természetkímélő gazdálkodás témakörében. Az MME célja a madarak védelmével hozzájárulni az emberi életminőség és a biológiai sokféleség megőrzéséhez Magyarországon.
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Reflexive Monitoring Guidebook
Reflexive monitoring is an evaluation method that gives urban practitioners insight into the progress of their project in real time. It helps them evaluate day- to-day activities and to respond to them while considering the bigger picture.This is especially helpful when addressing the complex
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GrowGreen report: Intervention Conclusions - Manchester
This report details the interventions and outcomes of the Manchester GrowGreen project, funded as part of the European Commission’s 2016 Smart Cities and Communities Call for “Demonstrating Innovative Nature Based Solutions in Cities”. This report looks at the ways Nature Based Solutions (NbS), in
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Innovation Pathways for Climate Adaptation
Nature-based solutions are key for adapting to climate change impacts, such as floods, heat waves, drought, and windstorms. Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation also have the potential to increase stakeholder involvement for sustainable climate governance and planning. Challenges
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Urban GreenUp info-pack: New strategy for Renaturing Cities through Nature Based Solutions
This guide presents an integrated methodology for the development of Renaturing Urban Plans (RUP). The goal is to help cities worldwide to increase environmental sustainability and to address climate, social and economic challenges via the local implementation of Nature-based solutions (NBSs).
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proGIreg Turin Interactive Living Lab NbS Map
This interactive maps let's users explore the nature-based solutions (NbS) implemented in the proGIreg Living Lab in Turin, Italy. ProGIreg is an EU-funded project using nature for urban regeneration of post-industrial areas with and for citizens in European and Chinese cities.
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Establishment of Community-based Models for Biodiversity Protection in Ecological Corridors in the Southern Caucasus (Armenia)
Establishment of Community Based Conservation Areas (CBCA) will help counteract the negative effects of unsustainable use of natural resources. CBCA models will be set up based on ecosystem services that result in biodiversity conservation and additional income for local communities via well-
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Aquaculture and Nature-based Solutions
The present report examines the emerging concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and the IUCN Global Standard when applied to social-ecological systems that include aquaculture production. Aquaculture production has very significantly increased in tonnage and value over the last decades. It is seen
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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Scenario building and its application
The term scenario is widely used in different ways and contexts, making it necessary to arrive at a common understanding of how the term is used. Based on the OpenNESS Glossary, scenarios are defined as "plausible, but simplified descriptions of how the future may develop, based on a coherent
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Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity
The Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity supports policymaking by Developing tools that support the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, including its global dimension; Identifying, filtering and structuring relevant information and making it accessible bringing together
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Study: The application of an environmental performance framework for climate adaptation innovations on two nature-based adaptations
In this paper, they introduce and test a framework to qualitatively assess the environmental impact of climate adaptation innovations with the ambition to facilitate the implementation of these adaptations. The framework was designed to enable continuous environmentally conscious benchmarking based
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UN World Water Development Report 2022
Accounting for approximately 99% of all liquid freshwater on Earth, groundwater has the potential to provide societies with tremendous social, economic, and environmental benefits and opportunities. Groundwater already provides half of the volume of water withdrawn for domestic use by the global
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Two Global Crises Interlinked — The need for balancing and win-win actions for nature and climate
From the Nordic Pavilion: Two global crises interlinked: biodiversity loss and climate change. Actions to mitigate one should not worsen the other. Two interactive panel debates considering examples that require the balancing of needs as well as win-win action for both climate and nature with the
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