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Towards sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean : the role of metropolitan agriculture
A document to addresses urban and peri-urban agriculture from a critical, proposal-oriented perspective. This report addresses urban and peri-urban agriculture from a critical, proposal-oriented perspective and with a special focus on Mediterranean metropolitan areas. Building from existing
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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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Phusicos NbS Governance Game
The newly developed PHUSICOS simulation is a serious game. It was developed as part of Work Package 6 on learning innovation and aims to simulate the complex governance setting of stakeholders. Serious games owe their name to the fact that they are designed with a purpose that goes beyond the
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Report knowledge base/action framework Low carbon | High air quality NbS potentials
As the acronym already indicates, JUSTNature introduces the normative notion of justice. An initial analysis of the scope of nature-based solutions and the role of justice suggests that issues of social and environmental justice are only considered peripherally, and that so far no dedicated
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GIZ ValuES - IPBES: A brief introduction for scientists, policy makers, and practitioners
With the publication of this brochure, NeFo and ValuES want to provide their partners and other interested parties a quick and informative overview of IPBES and the different topics and processes of this still young science-policy interface. The brochure may also encourage readers to identify
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FINAL REPORT – EKLIPSE REQUEST ON SUPPORTING EU NEGOTIATORS AT IPBES PLENARY
This report provides the summary of findings by the EKLIPSE ‘Expert Working Group analysing the links between the IPBES Global Assessment (GA) and its Summary for Policymakers (SPM). The Expert Working Group (EWG) was established based on a request by the European Commission, DG Environment, and
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Designing for planetary boundary cities
The planetary boundaries signify the Earth’s capacity to tolerate change and set out the science-based limits that must not be surpassed if the Earth is to remain hospitable for future generations. This timely report explores how we can design the built environment within the ‘safety rails’
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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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The Health and Social Benefits of Nature and Biodiversity Protection
Protecting nature and biodiversity is helping to tackle urgent health and social challenges across Europe. This IEEP study shows how urban, suburban and rural green areas bring multiple and often overlooked benefits to society.
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Urban Climate Comfort Zones
Guidelines for tackling heat island effects of urban open spaces, identifying prior areas of concern and proposing measures to enhance thermal comfort, micro-climate, amenity value and biodiversity in urban regions (with strategically distributed green spaces).
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Social media listening
Extensive methods of socio cultural valuation. Just taking profit of the fact that people explain a lot what do they like and do on social networks. Hashtags and geotags from Instagram, Twitter, and Facebbok can be great location based sources of information! Text analysis software can help to
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Defining and assessing success in mainstreaming
This background paper draws on reviews of the mainstreaming targets and indicators of selected NBSAPs from countries at different stages of their mainstreaming process, and the approaches to assessing the success of mainstreaming biodiversity and other issues into development. Recommendations are
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Science at ISGlobal
The 1000 cities ranking is a project of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), one of the centres in the PRBB. It’s aim is to estimate the impact of air quality, noise, temperature and proximity to green spaces on the health of people living in Europe's largest cities. Learn
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Podcast: Creating Green Cities
Creating Green Cities is a podcast on urban-nature based solutions, explained through stories of inspiring innovators from across Europe who have used their passion and creativity to make cities greener. We talk to guests from Barcelona, Budapest, Malmö and Utrecht to find out why green roofs are
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Community Gains
Online-tool to inspire and link community groups and individuals to resources needed to realise their project ideas.
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Sub-urban Infrastructure Payments
Guidelines (including a toolkit) for estimating the funds needed for the development of primary and secondary infrastructure in sub-urban areas.
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EFISCEN
EFISCEN is a large-scale forest model that projects forest resource development on regional to European scale, based on detailed national forest inventory data and scenarios. These scenarios are mainly determined by management actions, but the model can also take into account changes in forest area
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Preference Assessment Factsheet
reference assessment is a direct and quantitative consultative method for analyzing perceptions, knowledge and associated value of ecosystem services demand or use (or even social motivations for maintaining the service) without using economic metrics. It could also be used to understand which
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Technical Solutions Guidebook
This Guidebook introduces the technical components that go into the planning, delivery, and long-term stewardship of nature-based solutions. It provides examples of technical aspects of nature-based solutions and shows why this is important to consider to be able to get NbS benefits (for example,
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