Increase stakeholder awareness & knowledge about NBS

The restoration of the former saltworks in southern France

1 Restore a more natural hydrological functioning that reconnects the surrounding hydrosystems (including the lagoons located further inland, the Mediterranean Sea and the Rhône River).

2 Restore the natural ecosystems characteristic of coastal lagoons and sandy coastlines, including dunes, salt steppes and saltmarshes.

3 Maintain or increase the carrying capacity for breeding colonial water birds.

4 Implement adaptive management to sea-level rise, creating accommodation space for water spread.

5...

Read more about The restoration of the former saltworks in southern France

North Somerset Levels and Moors Partnership Project

Lapwing scrape in Weston Moor, Gordano - credit to Avon Wildlife Trust

To work with landowners to improve habitat management for wildlife and to promote soil management to help mitigate flooding, improve water quality and increase habitat for wetland birds.

Read more about North Somerset Levels and Moors Partnership Project

The Greenest of the Green block, Helsinki, Finland

The objective of the project is to investigate the future possibilities of green area development, by exploring the functionality of green areas on the roofs of apartment buildings and to gain insight into the impacts green roofs may have on housing and the sense of community.

Read more about The Greenest of the Green block, Helsinki, Finland

Moss for green infrastructure

Objective of these prototype moss installations was to find out the possible challenges of using moss in different locations and structures. We need to know what type of moss can be used and what are the actual costs of building moss green roofs and walls.

Read more about Moss for green infrastructure

Brague DEMO: Flash flood and wildfire hazards in a Mediterranean catchment

Locations of the Brague river and other catchments and municipalities heavily touched by the Oct. 2015 flood disaster © NAIAD D6.1

The public perception of ecosystems (e.g. forests, including possibly protecting ones) is strongly worsened following floods with massive wood jams. This case study aims at performing a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of a Mediterranean catchment to assess NbS benefits, dis-benefits and co-benefits and ways to optimize them.

Read more about Brague DEMO: Flash flood and wildfire hazards in a Mediterranean catchment

Paris Oasis Schoolyards programme

Plan of the Charles Hermite Oasis Courtyard, Paris

Reduce the local heat island effect
Provide pupils with a healthy and stimulating learning environment
Educate residents to risk culture on climate change
Make refuges of freshness available to the most vulnerable populations
Create numerous meeting spaces to spur conviviality and solidarity

Read more about Paris Oasis Schoolyards programme

BIOVEINS - Connectivity of green and blue infrastructures in Zurich: living veins for a biodiverse and healthy city

The main objective of our BIOVEINS proposal is to use functional diversity (FD) to highlight the mechanisms underpinning the link between GBI, taxonomic diversity (TD) and ecosystem services (ESs) provisioning, and to provide, together with local stakeholders, the ecological and interdisciplinary knowledge to identify the critical features of GBI, to guide the establishment, management and restoration of GBI, and to mitigate the effects of major urban global challenges, like habitat fragmentation, air pollution, and urban heat island.

This main objective will be accomplished by...