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Uforest Training Needs’ Assessment and Stakeholder Analysis
This report provides an overview of the existing demand on training needs to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in urban forestry and Nature Based Solutions (NbS). The information collected through this study will be the basis for the design of the Uforest learning opportunities. The
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Tiny Forest: First monitoring report
Earthwatch Europe has published the first monitoring report for its Tiny Forest programme showcasing the first insights into the benefits to the environment and biodiversity that a Tiny Forest can provide in its early stages. The report highlights the vital role of the "super powerful
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Label Bas Carbone: a national forest carbon offsetting framework
Low carbon label (LBC) applied as the French standard for carbon offsetting projects but also to label the contribution of companies and communities to CO2 sequestration in the forest, as an ecosystem service benefiting the whole society
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Integrated backcasting modeling system BackES
Advancing optimal management practices and designing relevant policy interventions for maintaining ecosystem services (ES) that satisfy local demand is a challenge in fragile mountain ecosystems. Under OPERAs, a backcasting framework (BackES) is being developed that develops and evaluates a variety
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EDGES - Ecologically Scaled Edge Responses: Patterns, Mechanisms and Predictive Modelling
Edge effects are among the key processes affecting biological populations and communities in fragmented landscapes, mediating landscape-scale patterns in species richness and abundance. This has been the subject of intense research over the past decades, demonstrating that edge-responses are
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Conexus key learning factsheet series - Nature-based Solutions in Latin American and European countries: Trends and perspectives
The conceptual development and practical implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) has rapidly advanced in the European Union (EU) and Latin American (CELAC) cities. A 2000-2020 literature review on NbS and related concepts shows advances, gaps, and insights, generating a valuable reference on
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Science-based ecosystem restoration for the 2020s and beyond
The documenti presents recommendations of the Science Task Force (STF) of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, led by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and comprised of leading subject experts as specific actions to be undertaken by public and private stakeholders to
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What are nature-based solutions? Risks, concerns and opportunities
This information brief has been produced as part of a partnership between the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, Youth4Nature and YOUNGO to explore the risks, concerns and opportunities around the concept of Nature-based Solutions, and to share this information with our youth communities. It is
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Unlocking the Potential of Urban Forests: Developing a Local Urban Forestry Action Plan
In recent years, there has been increasing interest about urban forestry as efficient nature-based approach to tackle many challenges connected to urbanisation and climate change. Faced with these challenges, cities need to build resilience through adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction
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Knowledge Transfer between Front Runner and Fast Follower Cities
This document provides a detailed overview of knowledge transfer activities between the FRCs and FFCs. The report will also outline some key innovations and next steps – including (a) the collaborative approach undertaken across WPs as part of the ELF in the design and delivery of Knowledge
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State of the art, good practices and NBS typology
This report presents a series of developments, trends and case studies that exemplify the growing importance that Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), as well as other closely related concepts, are having in thinking and practice around reconciling urban planning, human well- being and sustainability,
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Podcast: Creating Green Cities
Creating Green Cities is a podcast on urban-nature based solutions, explained through stories of inspiring innovators from across Europe who have used their passion and creativity to make cities greener. We talk to guests from Barcelona, Budapest, Malmö and Utrecht to find out why green roofs are
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What is PHUSICOS / ¿Qué es PHUSICOS?
Presentation of the PHUSICOS project / Presentación del proyecto PHUSICOS
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INTERLACE MOOC on Nature-based Solutions: (7) POLICY INSTRUMENTS for mainstreaming NbS in urban governance processes
Urban areas across the globe are facing unprecedented challenges—pollution, climate change, urban sprawl—and traditional solutions are falling short. The INTERLACE project’s Massive Open Online Course showcases how nature-based solutions offer a promising approach to help create resilient,
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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Ecosystem services and transdisciplinarity
Similar to related approaches such as post-normal science, citizens science, participatory approaches, transdisciplinarity (TD) goes beyond multi- and interdisciplinary research by co-creating knowledge with and for societal actors. Therefore the language, the concepts and the methodology used in
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Policy recommendations for increasing ecosystem services from trees in agricultural landscapes
A wide range of benefits for agriculture and farmers are provided by trees. They have the potential to increase economic returns and support agricultural resilience. Planting more trees on farms can address multiple policy goals, including the UK’s aim to become carbon neutral by 2050 and the
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NBS EduWORLD Flipbook - Nature-based Solutions-Learning from NBS EduSystems inspiring initiatives
Nature-based solutions (NBS) have gained solid ground in urban planning and design over the last decade. However, NBS education is still in a nascent stage and thus there is a gap in knowledge, skills and awareness of younger generations to be prepared to support mainstreaming NBS in all sectors
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Method Factsheet - Shadow Pricing
Shadow pricing is highly appropriate to elicit monetary values and anthropocentric instrumental values of nature's benefits. When society sets environmental targets on the provision of non-marketed ecosystem services it is an implicit valuation of the services. The shadow price is the marginal
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Method Factsheet - Species Distribution Models
Species distribution models (SDMs) (Franklin, 2009) have shown great potential in helping to achieve conservation planning goals by refining our knowledge of species distributions (Jetz et al., 2012). SDMs extrapolate species distribution data in space and time, usually based on a statistical
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Collaborative decision-analytic framework to maximize resilience of tidal marshes to climate change
The article describes an application of collaborative decision analysis with a diverse team of stakeholders who preserve, manage, or restore tidal marshes across the San Francisco Bay estuary, USA, as a case study. A Bayesian decision network revealed that a strategy considering sea-level rise and
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