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Planning, designing and monitoring of nature-based solutions: guidelines to urban transformations
Contemporary urban planning faces multiple challenges that require innovative and holistic solutions. Rapid urbanisation, climate change, social inequalities and environmental degradation are some of the pressures facing cities. Urbanisation increases the demand for infrastructure and services,
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- Guidance
OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem services and social justice
Understanding how changes in ecosystem services (ES) and natural capital (NC) impact on issues related to competitiveness and social justice.
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Providing contact with nature for young generation - A case study of preschools in the City of Poznań, Poland
Contact with nature is valuable for the health, wellbeing and development of children. Meanwhile, the urban environment and the contemporary urban lifestyle limit the opportunity for contact with nature. Given that children aged three to six years spend a significant amount of time in preschool, we
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ESManage Project: Irish Freshwater Resources and Assessment of Ecosystem Services Provision
This thrid report from the ESManage Project gathers an extensive description of the current conditions of Ireland's Freshwater Resources and the identification of their associated Ecosystem Services.
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Bridging Worlds Crafting Future-Ready NbS Curricula for Global Sustainability and Justice
This report addresses the current competency and skill gaps among Nature-based Solutions (NbS) professionals, by proposing a set of impactful experiential and inclusive curricula approaches to higher education and professional training providers in Europe and Latin America. It proposes a NbS
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Ecosystem Restoration Playbook: A practical guide to healing the planet
People and the planet are only as healthy as the ecosystems we all depend on. Bringing degraded ecosystems back to life – for example by planting trees, cleaning up riverbanks, or simply giving nature space to recover – increases their benefits to society and biodiversity. Without reviving
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The Urban Butterfly Effect
"The Urban Butterfly Effect” a policy brief with recommendations for national governments to accelerate urban efforts to help them achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) 2030 Action Targets. This policy brief is a response to the call from the Plan of Action on Subnational Governments
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NetworkNature Visualisation: EU-Funded Nature-based solutions research projects addressing Societal Challenges across Ecosystems
In this document you can find a visual representation of the different types of ecosystems and most relevant societal challenges in the context of NbS, with the aim to simplify and communicate these concepts, while inspiring NbS good practices. || The European Commission defines Nature-
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A Framework for Measuring and Reporting of Climate-related Physical Risks to Built Assets
In August 2021, UKGBC launched the Measuring and Reporting Climate-related Physical Risks task group in response to the upcoming mandatory disclosure of climate-related risks. For large organisations and financial institutions within the UK, this comes into force from April 2022 in line with the
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Innovating with Nature: Factors Influencing the Success of Nature-Based Enterprises
Nature-based enterprises (NBEs) have recently emerged as important actors in the delivery of nature-based solutions (NbS) to societal challenges, but little is known about the context in which they operate and the factors influencing their development. The empirical research undertaken in this
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Planning for a healthy environment - good practice guidance for green infrastructure and biodiversity
This guidance is designed to offer advice to planning practitioners on how green infrastructure and biodiversity can be enhanced and protected through the planning system. It summarises the latest policy drivers and distils the best of our current policy responses. It also sets out practical
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Viridian modelling of nature-based solutions
We use sophisticated modelling to identify, rank and prioritise Nature-based Solutions to multiple problems such as flooding, water resource supply, river pollution, soil loss, poor farm management and biodiversity loss. Our engaging communications show best bang for buck actions, with many
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Tree restoration potential in the European Union
Inspired by the report and the European Union’s new Green Deal, the European Commission Directorate General for Environment (DG ENV) requested the FAO Climate and Biodiversity Department to prepare a detailed report for the potential of land restoration in the European Union. The expected outputs
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Evaluating Ecological Restoration Success: A Review of the Literature
Assessing the success of ecological restoration projects is critical to justify the use of restoration in natural resource management and to improve best practice. Although there are extensive discussions surrounding the characteristics that define and measure successful restoration, monitoring or
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Space Engagers
Methodology (including online tool) for opening up underused real estate assets in the urban core to local ideas and engagement.
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Wildlife diseases on the increase
The "Wildlife diseases on the increase" policy brief focuses on Wildlife diseases, highlighting their increase and the threat they pose to Europe’s biodiversity, and proposing policy recommendations using the Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) fungus as an example. The 4-page brief is
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Natural Capital Assessments at the National and Sub-national Level
Almost all economic activities are dependent on 'natural capital' in some form or another. Natural capital refers to the stocks of the Earth's natural assets and resources, such as soil,water, air and biodiversity. Indeed, for business operations to successfully function long-term,
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Study: The application of an environmental performance framework for climate adaptation innovations on two nature-based adaptations
In this paper, they introduce and test a framework to qualitatively assess the environmental impact of climate adaptation innovations with the ambition to facilitate the implementation of these adaptations. The framework was designed to enable continuous environmentally conscious benchmarking based
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Guidelines for the calculation of Life Cycle Costs of NbS. Costs of infrastructures: elements of method for their estimation.
In this guidance report we tailor the general LCC methodology for the specificities of NBS and produce a general guideline for demo cases to calculate in a standardized way the TCO of NBS which could be then integrated in the cost-benefit analysis. Life cycle costs (LCC) are also named Total Cost
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Conexus key learning factsheet series - Monitoring NbS together for greater uptake and upscaling
Successful implementation and mainstreaming of Nature-based solutions (NbS) require understanding how their benefits are perceived within society and businesses. To build support and collaboration in evaluating NbS benefits, the CONEXUS project has developed an assessment frame, including a
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