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Decision support tool : an Integrated green grey framework
Guidance on innovations in green grey infrastructure - costed examples and more, see http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/150672/.
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ESCom's 5th Annual Conference Presentations
A compilation of ESCom's 5th annual conference presentations on the theme of Ecosystem Services in Practice held on the 18/6/18. This product show cases some of the research and projects currently conducted in the Scotland regarding ecosystem services and natural capital in practice.
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Urban GreenUp info-pack: New strategy for Renaturing Cities through Nature Based Solutions
This guide presents an integrated methodology for the development of Renaturing Urban Plans (RUP). The goal is to help cities worldwide to increase environmental sustainability and to address climate, social and economic challenges via the local implementation of Nature-based solutions (NBSs).
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Handbook: Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions
The Handbook aims to provide decision-makers with a comprehensive NbS impact assessment framework, and a robust set of indicators and methodologies to assess impacts of nature-based solutions across 12 societal challenge areas: Climate Resilience; Water Management; Natural and Climate Hazards;
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Process Design: An Explorer's Guide
Solving complex problems with innovative solutions isn’t easy, and just like an explorer embarking on a new journey, one should depart prepared with the right equipment. The main purpose of this guide is to equip readers with basic process management skills and ultimately to become more confident
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The Sarajevo Process
The Sarajevo Process (Pilot) is a co-creative arts-based engagement approach that has been developed by Connecting Nature partners in Trinity College Dublin and University of East London, in collaboration with cities. The process draws on our memories, places us in nature and captures our embodied
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The Isar Restoration in Munich - A participatory climate change adaptation measure
The Isar river concept case is a 'retrospective case' focusing on NbS practices along the river Isar in Bavaria, Germany. Measures to reduce flood risk and improve the ecological state of the river and its immediate surroundings were taken several years ago and the previous Isar
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GUÍA DE LA INFRAESTRUCTURA VERDE MUNICIPAL
Esta Guía se redacta con el objetivo de dar respuesta a las necesidades que los responsables municipales tienen a la hora de gestionar de forma adecuada la infraestructura verde situada en su ámbito municipal. Está destinada principalmente a apoyar a los técnicos municipales y a los cargos
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QUICKScan
QUICKScan is a tool to facilitate the decision process in participatory settings. By including stakeholder knowledge and preferences and the ability to calculate impacts in-situ, QUICKScan combines tacit expert knowledge with available spatially-explicit monitoring and statistical and uses
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Report on NBS professional Skill Gaps
This report identifies nature-based solutions (NBS) professional skill gaps in order to give guidance on how Nature-based Thinking (NBT) can be better integrated into higher education and professional training. To identify the skill gaps, two different approaches for data collection were deployed
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Method Factsheet - Smartphone App
The MapNat tool is designed to be applied by citizens and scientists who are interested in mapping the use of mainly cultural, but also some provisional and regulating, services and disservices. MapNat enables its users to map ES in three different ways as points, lines or areas on a map on their
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Connecting Nature Framework report: MUNICIPALITY OF PAVLOS MELAS
The flagship nature-based solution of Pavlos Melas municipality is the creation of Pavlos Melas Metropolitan Park on a former military camp (about 33 hectares) located in the dense urban fabric. Due to its metropolitan character and its large scale, the regeneration project has the potential to
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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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EmissionFactors.com
EmissionFactors.com taps into the most powerful environmental database in the world, powered by Ecometrica. Over the years, we've spent thousands of hours searching for and cataloguing emission and conversion factors and still do it on a regular basis. The accuracy of our data is very
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UNCCD Urban-rural linkages and ecosystem restoration
This working paper from the UN proposes an urban-rural linkage perspective in relation to land and ecosystem restoration at a time of heightened urgency on multiple fronts at local, national and international levels. The combined impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss land degradation, and
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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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Pitching Green Infrastructure
Methodology for assessing urban green infrastructure and planning for ecosystem services.
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DESSIN ecosystem services evaluation software tool
The free Ecosystem Services (ESS) evaluation software tool by DESSIN helps decision-makers to make the best choice by evaluating the effects that innovative solutions have on freshwater ecosystems and their services. The tool identifies and measures the ecosystem services that are provided to
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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Stakeholder involvement
Stakeholder involvement is not only regarded as an essential element in environmental management and decision making, but also considered critical in the context of ecosystem services (ES).
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OpenNESS Synthesis paper: Indicators for ecosystem services
An indicator is a quantitative measure which represents a complex system or phenomenon. Indicators are key elements in policies for goal formulation and evaluation of achievements, as well as simplification of information and communication. There is a long tradition of applying indicators in a
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