Connecting Nature Case studies tagged with Biodiveresity

ECOPAY Connect – Forest-habitat biodiversity payment scheme

Submitted by Carola Chiusi on 2 September 2022

This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

Set up a partnership between the regional park and local poplar plantations to increase the sustainable management of the plantations while increasing funding for restoration of crucial areas within the regional park.
Bring together farmers into a certification group, facilitating certification and reducing costs, while benefitting the natural environment of the regional park.
The innovative mechanism (IM) consists of a

Landscape and Recreation Value Trade

Submitted by Carola Chiusi on 5 September 2022

This case study from the SINCERE project had the goal to:

Introduce a payment for ecosystem services (PES) system in which forest owners are compensated for voluntarily enhancing the provision of landscape and recreational values in their forests.
The innovative mechanism (IM) consists of a planning process to select valuable forest areas in terms of biodiversity, landscape and carbon stock and a pilot project to collect and distribute funds to implement forest

The Green Corridors Network as the background of a NbS approach in Lisbon, Portugal

Submitted by Jemma on 23 November 2021

UAG parks were installed since 2011 as part of a process of social inclusion, where quality of the public space was the decisive point for citizen engagement and approval.

For several reasons, protecting important ecological areas in Lisbon from urbanisation has become difficult. Remnant areas of natural habitat have gained particular importance in consolidating the green corridors network, benefiting from the fact that much of this land is still within the municipality’s property holdings. The “Lisbon Green Plan” published in 1996 set out the approach used in 2008 to implement safeguarding measures to protect the ecological structure under development threat at that point. It triggered an update to the Lisbon Master Plan at a time when climate issues were...

Wetland Baquedano Park, City of Llanquihue, Chile

Submitted by Jemma on 23 November 2021

A Green Infrastructure Plan of Llanquihue, which includes the Baquedano Wetland Park, was developed through the joint working of the Landscape Architecture Master Program Universidad de Chile and the NGO Legado Chile Fundatio. It is a response to several socio-ecological pressures created by urban living that were affecting ecosystems within the city boundaries. In 2016 both institutions called on an open dialogue with 300 members of the community, including residences, local authorities, the school community, regional services, representative of productive industries, scientists and...