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Monetary Value of European Nature-based Solutions
Cities and regional governments are making critical contributions to sustainability and climate change, and are key sites of achieving the aims of the Convention on Biodiversity and the Green New Deal. This study demonstrates the economic value of nature-based solutions throughout Europe, in order
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Planning Naturally. Spatial planning with nature in mind: in the UK and beyond
RSPB, CIEEM and the RTPI have come together to show how planning for biodiversity should be integral to every part of the planning process and to inspire with examples of good practice, whatever country you are working in.The report is structured around 12 principles of good spatial planning, and
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Capturing the Values and Making the Business Case for Nature-Based Solutions - a step by step guide
This guide is designed to facilitate Nature based solutions adoption in urban areas by leveraging the economic value and countless benefits (also referred as ‘’non-monetary values’’) NBS have on communities and ecosystems. By providing step-by-step instructions and tools for capturing and
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Flood Damage Assessment
Methodology for assessing direct and indirect flood based economic losses to allow prioritisation and evaluation of adaptation measures.
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Connecting Nature Framework report for Ioannina city
The exemplar project for Ioannina city is the restoration of Pirsinela Park, popularly known as ‘the living room of Ioannina’. The objectives of this exemplar project are outlined in the list below: • Connecting nature-people: restore the experiential relationship of residents with the largest
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Biodiversity and ecosystem services: the foundation for human health and well-being - URBES Factsheet #2
Human beings are an integral and inseparable part of the natural world. Our existence and health ultimately depends on the integrity and functioning of ecosystems. This URBES factsheet presents research findings and policy recommendations which underline the value of biodiversity and ecosystem
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Delivering green infrastructure along linear assets. Scoping study-phase 1 (Executive Summary)
Delivering green infrastructure (GI) can provide multiple benefits that enhance the performance, efficiency and resilience of linear infrastructure assets and can reduce whole-life costs along transport, energy and water networks. C771 identifies good practice to support the integration of GI into
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EcoCities: Four Degrees of Preparation
Central to research project, EcoCities, is the concept of building adaptive capacity. This concerns helping cities to develop the skills, knowledge and expertise necessary to adapt to the impacts and opportunities that a changing climate presents. The core aim of EcoCities has been to undertake
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CHILDREN’S URBAN NATURE LAB IN VUORES
In April, a children’s urban nature lab was organised in Vuores, inviting children from day care centres, preschools and primary schools to participate in the development of nature-based systems in Vuores. The children learned about the role of basins and wetlands in water purification, the plants
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EmissionFactors.com
EmissionFactors.com taps into the most powerful environmental database in the world, powered by Ecometrica. Over the years, we've spent thousands of hours searching for and cataloguing emission and conversion factors and still do it on a regular basis. The accuracy of our data is very
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Report on NBS professional Skill Gaps
This report identifies nature-based solutions (NBS) professional skill gaps in order to give guidance on how Nature-based Thinking (NBT) can be better integrated into higher education and professional training. To identify the skill gaps, two different approaches for data collection were deployed
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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is a general framework for supporting complex decision-making situations with multiple and often conflicting objectives that stakeholders groups and/or decision-makers value differently.
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Brillianto Translation (D <-> EN)
Brillianto specialises in translations from German into English (and vice versa). I am a native German speaker. My English is excellent through living and working in the UK for 20 years. I have an excellent background in nature conservation, biodiversity, green infrastructure and the wider
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URBAN GreenUP Barriers and Boundaries Identification
This deliverable investigates the experiences and approaches of the URBAN GreenUP cities with the identification of the barriers and boundaries in terms of implementation of Nature-Based Solutions. It provides detailed descriptions of potential barriers and boundaries under the following
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Policy recommendations for increasing ecosystem services from trees in agricultural landscapes
A wide range of benefits for agriculture and farmers are provided by trees. They have the potential to increase economic returns and support agricultural resilience. Planting more trees on farms can address multiple policy goals, including the UK’s aim to become carbon neutral by 2050 and the
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Method Factsheet - Quickscan
The QUICKScan software and QUICKScan tool (http://QUICKScan.pro) encompasses a modelling environment with functionalities to assess societal and environmental conditions, diagnose patterns and interactions, implement alternative responses and evaluate the impacts of those responses. The QUICKScan
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Nature-based solutions towards sustainable communities: Analysis of EU-funded projects
Over the past thirty years local communities have remained at the heart of efforts to address sustainable development across the European Union, mobilised by a wide range of policies and initiatives to develop sustainable, smart, low carbon, resilient and eco-cities. As interventions that promise
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Nature4Cities - Implementation Model Database (IM-DB)
Nature4Cities project developed the Web-based database which allows to check different kinds of implementation models for NbS and NbS related pioneer projects. The database groups urban projects at different scales and in different European countries, using NbS.
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Opinion Fact sheet: Bio-diverse cities and regions beyond 2020 at the UN CBD COP 15 and in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
The political objective of this own-initiative opinion is to adopt the official position of the CoR to disseminate in the ongoing preparatory meetings and events towards the 15th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD COP 15) and consequently to
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