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Ecosystem Services Indicator Guidance
Ecosystem service indicators are information that efficiently communicates the characteristics and trends of ecosystem services. Under OPERAs a decision support tool for developing ecosystem indicators has been published. The indicator development framework provides guidance on the process of
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Conexus Life-Lab Factsheet Series: Francia Street Rain Gardens: SuDS Implementation
The Municipality of General San Martín (MGSM), Buenos Aires, led a project to build linear Rain Gardens (RGs) along Francia Street as part of a Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SuDS) to manage stormwater. As a novel technology for the region, the RGs proved to be cost-effective and socially
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Conexus key learning factsheet series - Skills Gaps for Nature-based Solutions uptake in Europe and Latin America
Skill gaps hindering the implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are often pointed out as a challenge to larger scale NbS uptake. This factsheet presents the findings and key messages of an explorative study on skills and competence gaps among NbS professionals. Moreover, it introduces the
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Report: Nature-based solutions for urban resilience: A citizen science-based research programme
This report by Earthwatch Europe shows how urban Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are a sustainable tool for building resilient cities. The report highlights how science and community engagement can provide key answers to support a sustainable future, providing the first insights for planners,
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Nature-based solutions Triple Win Toolkit
This Toolkit offers guidance to achieve, through Nature-based Solutions (NbS), a 'triple win' to enhance biodiversity, address climate change, and reduce poverty in the context of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend, especially for the International Climate Finance (ICF) programme
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Governance innovation for nature-based solutions - PBF Workshop Summary 24 March 2020
The Policy Business Forum (PBF) consists of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) experts and knowledgeable stakeholders at the international, European, and national scale. The main aim of the PBF is to explore innovative ways to strengthen the science-policy-business nexus in order to exploit opportunities
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Blue Green Infrastructure. A Roadmap Towards a Blue Green Infrastructure Manual
Blue Green Infrastructure (BGI) has the potential to address global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water management. However, whilst valuable research on BGI is available, it often remains theoretical in nature which hinders its effective integration into decision support
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Nature-Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities: A Framework Approach for Planning and Evaluation
There is a growing recognition and awareness that nature can help provide viable solutions to reduce vulnerability and generate value deploying the properties of natural ecosystems and the services they provide. Investing in nature can lead to substantial environmental, social, and economic
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Hydro Profi Line®
A unique new type of proven planter system for greening of impervious surfaces. Solitary containers/flower pots as well as areal. Horizontal as well as vertical. Indoors as well as outdoors. Reducing water consumption by up to 80% and enabling possibility for exchange of all species and sices (up
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CLEVER Regional Solutions Catalogue
The CLEVER Regional Solutions Catalogue seeks to elevate the role of nature-based solutions (NbS) across the urban landscape. It aims to inspire uptake and continued energy for implementing Nature-based Solutions that meet the varied needs and requirements of modern cities.
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Toolkit to identify and reform incentives harmful to biodiversity
Toolkit to identify and reform incentives harmful to biodiversity, by S. Withana, P. ten Brink, A. Illes, E. Watkins, D. Russi or The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP). This toolkit aims to be an operational guide to identify which incentives harmful to the biodiversity merit
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Hedonic property pricing
Mitigation cost-based valuation methods are a group of valuation methods that use the cost of actual measures to maintain ecosystem service provision as a proxy for the value of avoiding, mitigating or restoring the loss of services ecosystems provide.
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Integrated Assessment and Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Guidelines and Experiences
As the ecosystem service concept has become more widely recognised, so the number of biophysical, socio-cultural and monetary methods available to assess ecosystem services has increased. There is relatively little guidance on how to select and combine these methods into hybrid approaches that
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AGRI-MADRE Platform: Interactive stakeholder map
This platform, based on the MADRE project (Metropolitan Agriculture for Developing an innovative, sustainable and Responsible Economy), aims to connect the actors involved in metropolitan agriculture and food systems in the Mediterranean. Dozens of innovative projects have been compiled around this
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TELEPÜLÉSI KLÍMAADAPTÁCIÓ: Útmutató a klímaváltozáshoz való alkalmazkodáshoz
A Berlin-Budapest klímaadaptációs projekt keretén belül elkészült útmutató, amely az önkormányzatokat támogatja az ember által okozott éghajlatváltozáshoz való alkalmazkodást lokálisan. A szöveg rávilágít arra, hogy helyi szinten is mennyire fontos a stratégia tervezés ahhoz, hogy egy település
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Financing and Business Models Guidebook
This guidebook introduces the topic of financing and business models for nature-based solutions, identifies some common challenges and enablers to financing and presents a step-by-step guide to securing financing.
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PALM - Intercommunal potential analysis of the resource land for sustainable land management
The spatial decision support tool PALM aimed at supporting the allocation of urban development zones. A GIS-based MCDA approach was integrated into a web-based platform that allows distributing a requested amount of urban development areas within a selected perimeter based on ecosystem services and
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GIZ ValuES - Method Profile: TESSA – Toolkit for site-based ES assessment
The TESSA-toolkit focuses on a site-scale-level, such as a wetland, using information gathered locally. The toolkit can help assess climate regulation, flood protection, water provision, water quality improvement, harvested wild and cultivated goods and nature-based recreation. The toolkit is
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Two Global Crises Interlinked — The need for balancing and win-win actions for nature and climate
From the Nordic Pavilion: Two global crises interlinked: biodiversity loss and climate change. Actions to mitigate one should not worsen the other. Two interactive panel debates considering examples that require the balancing of needs as well as win-win action for both climate and nature with the
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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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