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Urban Nature Gateway

A catalogue of tools and resources designed to help tackle some of the most pressing shared challenges around urban nature-based solutions (NbS). It provides practical insights and resources for addressing six key challenge areas: NbS assessment; co-governance; citizen engagement; inclusion and

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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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Mainstreaming the co-production of Nature-based Solutions in European cities

Co-production processes enable urban planners and policymakers to unlock the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to address multiple urban challenges simultaneously. The Connecting Nature EU-funded project has worked with ten cities in Europe to foster the large-scale development of NbS while

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Metalliferous Hills Jug Band "geoperformance"

The Metalliferous Hills Jug Band (or Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere, JBCM, in Italian) is an international and inter-generational collective proposing a combination of music and environmental practice, where melody, rhythm, storytelling and science outreach are merged in one situation. The JBCM

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EcoCities: Four Degrees of Preparation

Central to research project, EcoCities, is the concept of building adaptive capacity. This concerns helping cities to develop the skills, knowledge and expertise necessary to adapt to the impacts and opportunities that a changing climate presents. The core aim of EcoCities has been to undertake

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A User-Friendly Platform for Bridging the Gap between Carbon Credit Demand and Supply

OG CO2.S.MARCHE developed a platform for voluntary sustainability credit exchange, promoting the advantages of forest certification aligned with Sustainable Forest Management principles.

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Low Power Wide Area Network for wildlife conservation

When facing nearly every major conservation problem from human-wildlife conflict to climate change, monitoring biodiversity and the movement of species is essential to our understanding of the ecosystems we’re protecting. Building on its core radiofrequency engineering background, XeriusTracking

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4C Transitions

Methodology for planning and realising inclusive local transition activities.

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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Green infrastructure

Considering the overall goals of the OpenNESS project and its variety of case studies, it is important to have a clear idea about how the concept of green infrastructure can be operationalised in practice, despite its inherent conceptual complexity and ambiguity. The concept of Green Infrastructure

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Strategy Dashboard

Discussion tool to facilitate constructive discussion within expert groups.

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Guidance on Co-creating NbS CLEVER Cities

This guidance contains a toolkit for the implementation of the co-creation process, including the 16 steps envisioned in a complete co-creation pathway to support cities to achieve successful implementation of nature-based solutions. On this website you can find all the useful tools, resources to

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ComPass: Urban Activation Road Map

Methodology to 'navigate' the process of activating community based projects.

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Guidance for national biodiversity indicator development and use

Indicators can be defined as a measure based on verifiable data that conveys information about more than itself. Biodiversity indicators are a central part of effective decision-making and adaptive measurement. This guidance document produced with the support of the Biodiversity Indicators

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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies

Despite its popularity, the intuitive definition of 'ES trade-offs' and its antonym 'ES synergies' lack conceptual clarity. When moving from theoretical concepts towards scientific comparison, more analytic definitions are required. In this SP, we further explore the trade-offs

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Questionnaire for the assessment of the willingness to pay for cultural-tourist ecosystem services

The evaluation was conducted using a dual approach: first, by assessing the importance of various ecosystem services for users (e.g., landscape, biodiversity, etc.) with response scores ranging from 1 to 7; second, by gauging how the Monte Nerone area was perceived to respond to these services.

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Seedbed Intervention Images

Do you want to feel the full experience of our recent Seedbed Interventions in the Seed Cities of Burgas, Limerick, Lahti, Umea, Tallinn and Versailles? Fear not. You can see for yourself in this gallery of imagery from the interventions. Publication Date: 03 Feb 2023 Author(s): City of

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Can ‘nature-based solutions’ help address climate change?

These so-called “nature-based solutions” are key to many countries’ and companies’ plans to achieve net-zero in the coming decades. Nature-based solutions also featured more prominently than before at the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last month. The term briefly made an appearance in a

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Connecting Nature WP1 Resources (Deliverable 3)

Resources generated within WP1 of Connecting Nature, included within the online toolkit (Deliverable 3)

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GrowGreen Thematic Factsheets

The GrowGreen Partners made a collaborative effort for creating a list of factsheets, in order to summarise the results of the various projects. The factsheets are organised by thematic area, that are biodiversity, economic impacts, heat stress, social benefits, water runoff, and water quality.

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