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Engaging Citizens and Stakeholders with Key Themes and Messages

Explore key themes and messages through a selection of posters. The first set of posters highlights Protect, Restore and Thrive. The second set of posters highlights Working with Nature, Diversfying Options and Multiplying Benefits.

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NbS Selection Tool

The Urban GreenUP ‘NbS Selection Tool’ has been designed to help local governments choose from the many NbS options in our NbS catalogue. This tool is a decision support tool – it’s designed to give suggestions that may help improve you choose the right NbS for you, based on both your city’s

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Ecosystem Restoration Playbook: A practical guide to healing the planet

People and the planet are only as healthy as the ecosystems we all depend on. Bringing degraded ecosystems back to life – for example by planting trees, cleaning up riverbanks, or simply giving nature space to recover – increases their benefits to society and biodiversity. Without reviving

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Nature4Cities - Step-by-step guide

The Step-by-Step Guide helps with the planning and preparation for NbS, to manage the complexities involved, to coordinate the work with multiple actors (experts, researchers, stakeholders and citizens) and to reflect on and monitor the whole process. The steps help create a framework for

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Ecosystem Services Card Game Factsheet

The ecosystem services card game is a method developed to capture the sociocultural values related to ecosystem services. This method specifically focuses on exploring and understanding human preferences and perceptions on ecosystem services (Fontaine et al., 2013). 
The ecosystem services card

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VÍZGAZDÁLKODÁS: Természetes vízmegtartó megoldások a települési klímaalkalmazkodásban

A 2018 és 2021 között megvalósult LIFE-MICACC projekt célja az önkormányzatok integráló és koordináló szerepének megerősítése az éghajlatváltozáshoz való alkalmazkodás érdekében, az alábbiakban közzétett tudásanyagok a projekt keretén belül készültek. Az anyagok első csoportja az önkormányzatoknak

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MEZŐGAZDASÁG: Agrárerdészeti tudástár

" Az agrárerdészet mezőgazdasági kultúra és fák harmonikus együtt-termesztése, kiegészítve esetleg más területhasználati módokkal, egy jövedelmező gazdálkodás kialakítása érdekében." Az alábbiakban a témához kapcsolódóan több, átfogó tudásanyagot gyűjtöttünk össze, melyek hasznos

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Green4C Hackathons

In a world that is increasingly urbanized and threatened by the climate crisis, people are more stressed and disconnected from nature. According to the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, “we need nature in our lives” to improve our psycho-physical health and that of the Planet. Indeed, there is a

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Science at ISGlobal

The 1000 cities ranking is a project of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), one of the centres in the PRBB. It’s aim is to estimate the impact of air quality, noise, temperature and proximity to green spaces on the health of people living in Europe's largest cities. Learn

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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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The Travelling Fox

In this learning scenario, students are familiarised with the concept of social and environmental justice through the story, photos, and videos of Foxy Travel – a fox who likes travelling across Europe. Via web 2.0 apps (for example: Padlet, MindMup, WordItOut), students analyse Foxy’s “

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Urban Nature City-Scale Assessment Maps

These maps show the potential of nature-based solutions to address climate change adaptation and mitigation in more-fine grained city-scale assessment, including three selected cities (Malmö, Barcelona, Utrecht). A set of tools using open-source GIS-based modelling, was used to quantify benefits of

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Greenopolis - a learning platform about nature-based solutions

Greenopolis is an educational platform about nature-based solutions. The material contains activities and exercises that bring school children (age 8-12 yrs) outside into the (urban)nature to learn through reflexions, creativity, experiments, observations, and by being bodily present in nature

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Urban Nature Explorer

As a web-based interactive platform, the Urban Nature Explorer aims to support the development and the visualisation of alternative nature-based solution scenarios and assess their costs, benefits, and impacts on selected urban sustainability challenges (e.g. climate change, stormwater management

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State of Finance for Nature 2022 Report

The second edition of the State of Finance for Nature report launched today reveals that nature-based solutions are still significantly under-financed. If the world wants to halt biodiversity loss, limit climate change to below 1.5C and achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030, current finance

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euPOLIS

Innovative euPOLIS urban planning methodology integrates nature-based solutions to enhance the health and well-being of citizens in four European cities! euPOLIS project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, is coordinated by the National Technical University of Athens NTUA,

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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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Nature Value Explorer

www.natuurwaardeverkenner.be The Flemish government recognises the importance of these ecosystem services (ESS). The manual and easy to apply tool uses pragmatic methods to value ecosystem services in rural and urban environments. The tool helps everyone (land managers, planners, national and

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Making Ecosystem-based Adaptation Effective: A Framework for Defining Qualification Criteria and Quality Standards

Many organizations, including members of the Friends of EbA network (FEBA)11 have gained both conceptual and practical experience in designing and implementing EbA measures in various regions, ecosystems, and levels of governance. These experiences provide a rich source of

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Space Engagers

Methodology (including online tool) for opening up underused real estate assets in the urban core to local ideas and engagement.

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