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From Nature-based Solutions to the Nature-based Economy - Delivering the Green Deal for Europe (Draft White Paper for consultation)

Decades of research and more recently public policy recognise that current economic practices are not compatible with a healthy planet. The European Green Deal aims to decouple economic growth from resource usage, decarbonise industry and do this in a fair and just way for society. Nature-based

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GIZ ValuES - Fact sheet on training "Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services"

This training course offers a general introduction to basic economic concepts, gives an overview of some principles of environmental economics, and provides a general understanding of different economic valuation methods with their pros and cons as well as an overview on how valuation can be

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Website: Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework EU Support

Explore the resources of Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework - EU Support website to keep up to date on the agenda and learn from a wealth of scientific resources about biodiversity.

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PhusicosVR - NbS demonstrators in Virtual Reality

The H2020 project PHUSICOS focused on demonstration sites for NbS implementations to reduce hydrometrological risks in rural environments. These implementations are difficult enough to envision for professionals familiar with them, such as landscape architects and infrastructure engineers, but for

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Ecosystem types of Europe

The dataset combines the Corine based MAES ecosystem classes with the non-spatial EUNIS habitat classification for a better biological characterization of ecosystems across Europe. As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence for each MAES ecosystem type.

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Demonstrating the impact of innovative nature-based solutions

This Infographic shows the environmental, social and economic impact of innovative nature-based solutions in Connecting Nature cities Genk, Glasgow, and Poznań.

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Policy-driven Monitoring and Evaluation across Europe: Priorities for Improvement

This 4-page briefing summarises the main challenges and implications for improving policy-driven monitoring and evaluation. Much attention and resources are dedicated to fulfilling the requirements and guidelines of environmental policies. An interdisciplinary pan-European team studied the

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Urban Waste Management

Assessment methodology for identifying opportunities to make local urban waste management more sustainable and resilient.

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European Academies Science Advisory Council - Regenerative agriculture in Europe

This report takes as a first point of departure the goals and commitments made in the recent European Commission’s Green Deal, and specifically the Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies, for dealing with both climate change and biodiversity loss while at the same time securing production of an

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Urban resilience and sustainability - URBES Factsheet #5

This factsheet explains the importance of understanding the relationship between people and nature in urban planning and decision making in order to achieve urban resilience and sustainability.

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Leveraging Public Programmes with Socio-Economic and Development Objectives to Support Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems

The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 recognises that biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services that are essential for human well-being. The fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook underscores that biodiversity is still being lost and ecosystems

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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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Using ecosystem services to measure the degree to which a solution is nature-based

There has been a recent surge of interest in Nature-based Solutions, a concept encompassing a broad suite of ideas that have arisen from the intersection of ecology, engineering, sociology and economics. Solutions founded in nature are promised to resolve many issues resulting from global change,

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Communities Directory: Online portal for strengthening networks between individuals and groups in cities

Online portal for strengthening networks between individuals and groups in cities.

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UNDRR Website: Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction

UNDRR developed the website Words into Action: Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction that offers practical, expert-informed guidance on setting up and implementing nature-based solutions, for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. Explore the website with reports

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EO Labs from Ecometrica

The Ecometrica Platform's "EO Labs" is a cloud based spatial content management system that gives your organisation the capacity to develop multiple content sharing applications. Application managers within your organisation can pull together data sets, areas of interest and

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AlpES - Alpine Ecosystem Services

The AlpES project's overall objective is to introduce ecosystem services as a regional/transnational environmental governance framework and train and support the AlpES target groups in understanding, valuing and managing them.

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Green Infrastructure Valuation Toolkit

A toolkit for valuing the benefits of green infrastructure, consisting of a spreadsheet calculator and a user guide. Monetary and non-monetary values are calculated, generally using a benefits transfer approach. Can be used either to value a planned intervention, or existing green infrastructure.

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VÍZGAZDÁLKODÁS: Innovatív vízgazdálkodási megoldások gyűjteménye

Az Innovatív vízgazdálkodási megoldások gyűjteménye olyan fejlesztések, termékek, szolgáltatások adatait gyűjti össze, amelyek ökoszisztéma alapú segítséget nyújthatnak az éghajlatváltozás hatására megjelent térségi és települési vizekhez kapcsolódó problémák kezeléséhez és megoldásához. A

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Conexus key learning factsheet series - Supporting Nature-based Solutions via Nature-Based Thinking

In response to critiques of Nature-based Solutions (NbS), we propose a holistic and systemic approach: Nature-Based Thinking (NBT). NBT emphasizes the inspiration from nature to foster sustainable urban development and conceives nature to be intertwined with people. NBT will engage local actors,

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