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Valuing Nature: Demystifying Economic Valuation Paper
This paper covers the main issues, questions and principles surrounding economic valuation and is designed as an overview for those new to economic valuation. The paper brings together input from 120 volunteers from the economic valuation community. The paper provides a summary of agreed principles
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The BUFFER project - how research allowed classifying Marine Protected Areas for better clarity in the sustainable use of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity
The BUFFER project has been awarded the second edition of the BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact, highlighting its excellent achievements in terms of advancing science and practice of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The project was funded under the 2011-12 BiodivERsA joint call on “
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Conexus key learning factsheet series - The Nature Future Workshops
The Nature Futures Workshops (NFW) were an opportunity to think as creatively as possible about the desired futures for nature in our Conexus’ cities in 2050. This factsheet presents an overview of the methods used to explore these futures. Discussions in the workshops generated a series of present
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The nature of Manchester. Local Action Project
In 2017, the City of Manchester become one of the 22 ‘Citylab’ study cities being undertaken across Europe as part of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)-funded EnRoute Project. The EnRoute (enhancing the resilience of urban ecosystems through green infrastructure) Project forms a
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Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development Rapid Diagnostic Tool
This tool is intended to help policy makers and other stakeholders understand the extent to which biodiversity and development objectives are already integrated at the national level and the obstacles and constraints that need to be overcome to promote further, and more effective, integration. It
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The role of public and private sectors in mainstreaming nature-based solutions - PBF 19 April 2021
The Policy Business Forum (PBF) consists of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) experts and knowledgeable stakeholders at the international, European, and national scale. The main aim of the PBF is to explore innovative ways to strengthen the science-policy-business nexus in order to exploit opportunities
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Developing a Novel Martelloscope for Assessing Biodiversity and Growing Stock Volume with the aid of a Digital Twin.
Monitoring and quantifying biodiversity variation through silvicultural choices made with the marteloscope adds significant value to sustainable forest management, enhancing ecosystem services and production aspects.
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Biodiversity Quality Calculator - Measuring Impacts on Biodiversity
The Biodiversity Quality Calculator is an online tool currently in development. It aims to provide comprehensive and robust biodiversity indices, including biomass, species rarity and population evenness. We are currently developing an online tool which allows data to be uploaded to the platform,
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The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Strategy
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seeks to end poverty, conserve biodiversity, combat climate change and improve livelihoods for everyone, everywhere. These objectives, encapsulated in 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be met unless ecosystem degradation is stopped
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TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers
TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers calls on local policy makers to understand the value of their natural capital and the services it provides and apply a focus on nature's benefits in local policy areas such as urban management, spatial planning and protected areas management.
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Sustainable Water Management - Treatment Wetlands Design
Nature-based solutions like constructed/treatment wetlands, can play an essential role for the water pollution control at urban scale and for reducing the flooding risk while providing positive effects on biodiversity, social acceptance and economics.
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NetworkNature Factsheet 4 - Financing nature-based solutions in cities: Exploring opportunities from municipal funding
This factsheet explores how implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in cities can be a more financially viable alternative to conventional approaches. By outlining inspiring NbS case studies, this facthseet lists possible options for municpalities to fund NbS in order to address societal
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BiodivERsA guide on policy relevance and effective science-policy interfacing in research proposals
The objective of the present guide is to help researchers to: - Better understand what is policy relevance of research - Be aware of what the criteria are for evaluating policy relevance of research in BiodivERsA calls - Be able to more efficiently identify the most relevant policies and
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ÁLTALÁNOS: Ember- és természetközpontú településfejlesztés - URBACT Konferencia és Workshop
2024. április 17-én került sor az Építési és Közlekedési Minisztérium, a Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem, valamint a TeAM HUb-ot alapító és koordináló BURST Nonprofit Kft. társzervezésében az Új Európai Bauhaus Fesztivál magyarországi kísérőrendezvényére Budapesten. A rendezvényen kiemelt
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Challenges and enablers to financing Nature-based Solutions in Europe
Raising knowledge and awareness about alternative financing and business models for large-scale implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in European cities has been one of the major impacts of Horizon 2020 project Connecting Nature. The cities of Genk (BE), Glasgow (UK) and Poznan (PL) are
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GrowGreen NbS Co-design Guide
The “GrowGreen NbS co-design Guide”, made by Bipolaire, could be materialised as a tool that guides the NbS co-design process through questions. It is structured similarly as the GCF (Green Cities Framework), based on three main pillars: Planning, Mobilising, and Evaluating. Municipalities that
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NetworkNature Annual Event Report: Upscaling nature-based solutions in policy and practice
This report was produced by NetworkNature to summarise the main outcomes of the NetworkNature Annual Event "Upscaling nature-based solutions in policy and practice", which took place on 27th September in Brussels. The event provided the opportunity to learn more about the state-of-the-
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Ecosystem types of Europe
The dataset combines the Corine based MAES ecosystem classes with the non-spatial EUNIS habitat classification for a better biological characterization of ecosystems across Europe. As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence for each MAES ecosystem type.
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Restoration and repair of Earth's damaged ecosystems
Given that few ecosystems on the Earth have been unaffected by humans, restoring them holds great promise for stemming the biodiversity crisis and ensuring ecosystem services are provided to humanity. Nonetheless, few studies have documented the recovery of ecosystems globally or the rates at which
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GIZ ValuES - Fact sheet on training on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)
One specific instrument to capture the value of ecosystem services are payments for ecosystem services (PES). A PES scheme can be designed in various different ways, based on the intended outcomes and target areas. In this training module, the basic characteristics of a PES scheme as well as
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