What are nature-based solutions? Risks, concerns and opportunities
This information brief has been produced as part of a partnership between the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, Youth4Nature and YOUNGO to explore the risks, concerns and opportunities around the concept of Nature-based Solutions, and to share this information with our youth communities. It is
OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Public goods
Public goods represent a particularly complex category of environmental resources. The increasing importance of the concept of public goods in national and international legal frameworks, particularly relating to questions surrounding the role of private or public actors in providing and
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.
BiodivERsA Stakeholder Engagement Handbook
The BiodivERsA Stakeholder Engagement Handbook is a practical guide designed to assist research teams identify relevant stakeholders to engage with in order to enhance the impact and social relevance of their work. The Handbook draws upon exiting literature and presents case studies that provide
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Decision support tool : an Integrated green grey framework
Guidance on innovations in green grey infrastructure - costed examples and more, see http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/150672/.
Innovation Pathways for Water Challenges
Growing urban populations around the world are causing a rising demand for water. Concurrently, changing climate is increasing extreme events in cities, from drought to floods, with severe social and economic consequences. One in four large cities already faces water stress, and demand for water is
Ecosystem Approach Handbook
The Ecosystem Approach Handbook has been developed by Natural England and Countryscape to help landscape scale partnerships benefit from the ecosystem approach. It builds on partnership projects that Natural England has supported in Bassenthwaite and the South Pennines to help shape future
The social-ecological system in the study of Poznań’s integrated geography
The article presents the contribution of the Department of Integrated Geography of the Adam Mickiewicz University in the development of methodological framework and practical applications within the concept of the social-ecological system. The ongoing work focuses on several research fields. They
Ecosystem Services Mapping - Oppla Webinar video
This webinar was the first of two sessions in a series, beginning the topic of ecosystem services mapping. Nynke Schulp spoke about the reliability of ecosystem services mapping, describing how methods of ecosystem services mapping have improved in recent years. Anis Guelmami spoke about
Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions: A summary for policy makers
Assessing the impacts of nature-based solutions is essential to understand their effectiveness in addressing current interrelated societal challenges. Robust impact evaluation supports practitioners to understand and document the outcomes of nature-based solutions, resulting in improved quality,
Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions: Economic Regeneration
This report specifically addresses the mainstreaming of urban nature-based solutions for economic regeneration. We understand economic regeneration to be about the improvement and reinvigoration of urban areas. Nature-based solutions have the potential to encourage economic regeneration through
Public procurement of Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can be a powerful tool for cities dealing with the contemporary sustainability challenges including degradation of natural capital and ecosystem services, vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, as well as corresponding health and wellbeing issues. NBS
Flood Damage Assessment
Methodology for assessing direct and indirect flood based economic losses to allow prioritisation and evaluation of adaptation measures.
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
European Long-Term Ecosystem and Socio-Ecological Research Infrastructure (eLTER H2020)
The overall aim of the eLTER project is to advance the European network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms to provide highest quality services for multiple use of a distributed research infrastructure.
Nature-based solutions Business information package
Whether you are just starting out in this field or are a professional already, or simply want to learn more, this document has useful information for everyone. The package starts with introducing the concepts of nature-based solutions and enterprises. We then present examples of nature-based
Words into Action: Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction
In this document by UNDRR, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are considered capable to address the growing challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, increased frequency of extreme weather and natural hazards as well as other human-made environmental disasters. The UNDRR developed this 'Words
QUICKScan
QUICKScan is a tool to facilitate the decision process in participatory settings. By including stakeholder knowledge and preferences and the ability to calculate impacts in-situ, QUICKScan combines tacit expert knowledge with available spatially-explicit monitoring and statistical and uses
Governance Guidebook
The aim of this Guidebook is to outline a key aspect of how to embed nature-based solutions in your city – and that is governance. Governance is broader than government. It covers the legal frameworks, the formal and informal networks and organisations and the rules and policies related to the
OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Stakeholder involvement
Stakeholder involvement is not only regarded as an essential element in environmental management and decision making, but also considered critical in the context of ecosystem services (ES).
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