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UrbanByNature: The global programme for urban nature pioneers

UrbanByNature is a facilitated capacity-building programme promoting exchange among cities, researchers, SMEs and NGOs to build bridges with the Nature-Based Solutions communities across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and other interested regions. Through this facilitated expertise-sharing and

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The EKLIPSE EU support mechanism

The goal of the EKLIPSE mechanism is to bring scientists, policy-makers and others together to ensure that decisions that affect the environment are made with the best available knowledge. This is a long-term goal, not one limited to the life of the four year EKLIPSE project. We therefore aim to

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Deliberative mapping of ecosystem services within and around Donana National Park (SW Spain) in relation to land use change

The establishment of protected areas is one of the main strategies for preserving biodiversity from land use transformation. However, a great number of protected areas are becoming isolated due to land use changes in their surroundings.

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Ecological Restoration – a means of conserving biodiversity and sustaining livelihoods

Many of the world’s ecosystems have undergone significant degradation with negative impacts on biological diversity and peoples’ livelihoods. There is now a growing realisation that we will not be able to conserve the earth’s biological diversity through the protection of critical areas alone. This

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MEZŐGAZDASÁG: Tudástár a természetkímélő gazdálkodás témakörében

A közzétett tudásanyagokat a Natura 2000 hálózat égisze alatt publikálta a Magyar Madártani és Természetvédő Egyesület (MME) a természetkímélő gazdálkodás témakörében. Az MME célja a madarak védelmével hozzájárulni az emberi életminőség és a biológiai sokféleség megőrzéséhez Magyarországon.

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Seedbed Intervention: Limerick

In one of our Cultivating Cities, in Limerick, the Seedbed Intervention took place on the Castletroy greenway, which is the target area for the GoGreenRoutes project as it provides connectivity between Castletroy College secondary school (students 12-18 years of age) and Castletroy Gaelscoil (

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NbS Framework Reports for Fast Follower Cities

This Deliverable presents a cross-city analysis of how the cities have adapted and applied the Connecting Nature Framework for the large-scale implementation of nature-based solutions. Specifically, we identify the diverse types of innovations materializing in the cities to overcome barriers and

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Guidelines for co-creation and co-governance of nature-based solutions

This report analyses co-creation and co-governance approaches for Nature Based Solutions (NbS). Each project represents different ways in co-designing, co-developing, co-implementing and co-monitoring NbS that are being deployed in diverse European contexts. The analysis presents best practices

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eNaBlS Online Course on NBS

A new course on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) was launched by the ᴇNᴀBʟS team of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). NBS utilise nature’s own processes to address various societal challenges while promoting human well-being and biodiversity. Focusing on the northern environment, the course

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The vital role of Nature-based Solutions in a nature positive economy

The Working Group on the Nature-Based Economy of Taskforce 3 produced this short video to highlight the main recommendations of the EC Expert Publication "The Vital Role of Nature-based Solutions in a Nature-Positive Economy". Watch the video and check out the report, which is a first

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Design Brief 3- Biodiversity-positive Design in Urban Areas with NbS: Mobility Network, Green associated with Buildings, Vacant Plots, Brownfields

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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GIZ ValuES - Method Profile: InVEST models - Overview

InVEST is a family of tools to assess how distinct scenarios might lead to different ecosystem services and human well-being related outcomes in particular geographic areas. InVEST enables decision-makers to assess the tradeoffs associated with alternative choices and to identify areas where

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Nature Value Explorer

www.natuurwaardeverkenner.be The Flemish government recognises the importance of these ecosystem services (ESS). The manual and easy to apply tool uses pragmatic methods to value ecosystem services in rural and urban environments. The tool helps everyone (land managers, planners, national and

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Helping Ecosystems in Europe to adapt to climate change

This report summarises much of the work done by, and for, the Climate Change Group of the European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA) between 2011 and 2013.

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What socio-demographic characteristics of university students in Southern Germany predict their urban nature connectedness?

Promoting mental health addresses a global societal challenge. Nature connectedness, or relatedness to natural systems, is associated with increased well-being and mental health. This cross- sectional online study addressed this issue by identifying socio-demographic predictors of urban nature

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GrowGreen report: Intervention Conclusions - Manchester

This report details the interventions and outcomes of the Manchester GrowGreen project, funded as part of the European Commission’s 2016 Smart Cities and Communities Call for “Demonstrating Innovative Nature Based Solutions in Cities”. This report looks at the ways Nature Based Solutions (NbS), in

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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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Policy tools to manage synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services

The brief on “Policy tools to manage synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services” presents how the results from the BiodivERsA-funded CONNECT, REGARDS, TALE and VITAL projects use optimization and participatory tools to quantify synergies and trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services,

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Nature-based solutions: rhetoric or reality? The potential contribution of nature-based solutions to net zero in the UK

While the UK Government’s ambitions for nature-based solutions are admirable, there is a clear and present danger that they will not be achieved, and this could undermine the target of net zero by 2050, as well as the agricultural sector, with a failed transition. The House of Lords recommends that

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