- Assess the urban benefits that your NbS will bring with our Simplified Urban Assessment Tool
Are you an urban planner, decision-maker or do you provide technical support, and you’d like to see how the chosen NbS will impact the local environment? The Simplified Urban Assessment Tool (SUAT) can help you to define the proper conditions to execute and develop your NbS project to maximise its benefits.
This is built from 3 components: GreenPass, Colouree and the Expert Model-based Box (EMBB). Together these can assess different aspects of climate, environment and social urban challenges, at different scales, from object to city scale. The visualisation of project site assessments and related good practices represents an important resource for use in the planning phase, and can be shared amongst multiple involved stakeholders.
Are you are an urban planner, a decision-maker, an environmental expert or a consultant, and you’d like to decrease the negative environmental impact of the further design stages of your NbS project?
The Nature4Cities Platform provides a tool for environmental assessment, combining a material flow analysis tool and a Simplified LCA tool.
Based on environmental indicators (e.g. impact on climate change or urban metabolism), and using some of your project data, the tool automatically calculates the corresponding metrics relating to the environmental performance of the NbS.
Using this tool, you can obtain easy-to-understand graphical representations of the different environmental impacts at each step of the life cycle of your NbS.
- Assess the NbS socio-economic impacts of your NbS project with NBenefit$ and EQOL-scale
Are you a policy maker, an urban planner, or a built environment professional and you’d like to estimate the socio-economic benefits, co-benefits and costs of your NbS project?
NBenefit$ allows estimation of the costs and benefits of the project’s financial and social impact by quantifying and comparing the costs of the planned NbS, as well as the benefits associated with the provision of multiple Ecosystem Services, over the entire life cycle of the NbS.
Our quality-of-life scale (EQOL-scale) goes further by assessing the social impact of the project. It allows you to assess users’ satisfaction (averaged or for specific users) related to your planned NbS.
You can also measure the effectiveness of your NbS post-implementation by comparison with environmental quality of life pre-implementation.
