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OPERAS D4.5 Good practice guidelines for instrument choice and tutorials for instrument application
About “Guidance on choice and application of instruments” Task 4.5 coordinates the work and information flow across WP4 Instruments and produced an overall synthesis of the operational potential of ES/NC instruments, a road map for their application and practice guidance for choice and use of ES/
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ZÖLD-KÉK INFRASTRUKTÚRA: Városi kékinfrastruktúra, városi zöldinfrastruktúra jógyakorlatok
A Szent István Egyetem Tájépítészeti és Településtervezési kara által az URBACT BINIR projekt keretén belül készített összefoglaló anyag. A zöldinfrastruktúrának nem csak az ökoszísztémára van pozitív hatása, hanem a társadalom egészségi állapotára, a település gazdasági vonzerejére, valamint az
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Why is Nature Restoration Critical for the Resilience of European Cities?
The EU Commission published its proposal for a new Nature Restoration Regulation in June 2022. In this context, IEEP and Ecologic Institute – as part of the Think Sustainable Europe network – published a series of thematic policy briefs to inform Members of the European Parliament and other
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Conexus key learning factsheet series - Reflections for establishing Urban Life-Labs for governance of Nature-based Solutions
This factsheet presents the key learnings and strategies from the establishment processes of seven Urban Life-Labs located in seven major cities across Latin America: São Paulo, Bogotá, Santiago, and Buenos Aires; and across Europe: Lisbon, Barcelona, and Turin. Each Urban Life-Lab represents
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Why is nature restoration critical to sustain jobs and economic benefits from healthy ecosystem services?
Nature restoration leads to job creation and maintenance and is particularly important for local communities. It is estimated that the investment needs of the Natura 2000 network can support as many as 500,000 additional jobs. Restoration activities are both directly and indirectly linked to job
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Design Brief 1- Biodiversity-positive Design in Urban Areas with NbS: Approaches
This NetworkNature design brief series, the first of its kind, comprises three design briefs on biodiversity-positive design recommendations for urban and peri-urban areas with nature-based solutions. The series, developed with support of IFLA Europe, presents simple design suggestions for
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NetworkNature & PHUSICOS Online Event Agenda: NbS private sector upscaling and capacity building
This is the agenda for the NetworkNature & PHUSICOS Online Event.
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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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Assessment and mapping of ecosystem services - Development of methods for assessment and mapping of ecosystem services of marine and inland waters
The general purpose of the project "Development methods for assessment and mapping of ecosystem services of marine and inland waters" is to help stop the decrease of biodiversity in water bodies and damaging of ecosystem in the European Union by supporting the preservation and restoration
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Nature-based solutions-EU-funded NbS research projects tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis
"Nature-based solutions (NbS) are inspired and supported by nature, they are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience; such solutions bring more, and more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into cities,
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Governance of Ecosystem services: how to transform the ES concept into an explicit management tool
An infographic that synthesises the work done at the Barcelona hybrid dune, an exemplar of the OPERAs project.
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Conceptual & action framework on Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials
The deliverable 2.1, Report knowledge base/action framework Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials, was submitted by EURAC with contributions from TUM, TUC, ABUD, RWI, ISOCARP, KYDON, MUC, LEU, MERANO, COBZ, GLC, SMJV in June 2022. The description of the deliverable is available below and the
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Adaptation of trees and forests to climate change: the importance of genetic variability
The policy brief “Adaptation of trees and forests to climate change: the importance of genetic variability” is derived from the BiodivERsA-funded LinkTree project, which examined the genetic variation within forest tree populations in five European countries, and assessed how this variability and
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OPERAS D4.7 Implementation Guidance
D4.7 developed guidance for the design and implementation of schemes that can use the NC/ES concepts: Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES); Offsetting; Standards, Certificates, Reporting, Labelling and Procurement; Spatial Planning, Regulation and Development Control; and Nature Based Solutions.
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services A business case for re/insurance
Assessing biodiversity risks is complex as there is a massive underlying collection of risks. To help assess the risks and foster dialogue around biodiversity they have designed a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) Index. It shows that in 20% of all countries, ecosystems are in a fragile
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Europe’s Natural Treasures – an illustrated ecosystem services map
Europe is full of natural treasures that provide endless inspiration, excitement, and enjoyment as well as supporting much of our economy. These benefits we get from nature sometimes referred to as ecosystem services, that are provided by Europe's natural capital. This map provides a rich
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Impact Assessment Guidebook
This Guidebook presents the Connecting Nature Impact Assessment Framework. This Framework is aimed at supporting cities in developing and successfully implementing robust monitoring and evaluation plans that can deliver systematic and comparable evidence as to NbS effectiveness. This framework
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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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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Good governance
Governance of ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC) is one of the four major challenges addressed by OpenNESS. The term governance indicates a mode of steering that differs from state-centred top-down command-and-control approaches, as it is marked by the inclusion of a variety of actors
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