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A NbS tour around Europe: Local experiences and lessons learnt from working together with and for nature

The NetworkNature NbS Hubs community came together and showcased a “Live tour of Nature-based Solutions around Europe” at The Nature of Cities Festival, in Berlin, June 2024. Nine NbS Hubs shared insights from ten site visits, presenting their experiences and findings. This report captures the key

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Urban Nature Explorer

A simulation game to address sustainability challenges through nature-based solutions.

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Co$ting Nature

Co$ting Nature is a web based tool for natural capital accounting and analysing the ecosystem services provided by natural environments (i.e. nature's benefits), identifying the beneficiaries of these services and assessing the impacts of human interventions. This Policy Support System (PSS)

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Natural environments, psychosocial health, and health behaviors in a crisis – A scoping review of the literature in the COVID-19 context

The COVID-19 outbreak led to major restrictions globally, affecting people’s psychosocial health and their health behaviors. Thus, the purpose of this scoping review was to summarize the available research regarding nature and health in the COVID-19 context. Overall, the findings indicate that

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Nature-based solutions-EU-funded NbS research projects tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are inspired and supported by nature, they are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience; such solutions bring more, and more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes

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BiodivERsA guide on policy relevance and effective science-policy interfacing in research proposals

The objective of the present guide is to help researchers to: - Better understand what is policy relevance of research - Be aware of what the criteria are for evaluating policy relevance of research in BiodivERsA calls - Be able to more efficiently identify the most relevant policies and

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Community forest arrangements as ideal instance for the realization of the profit- sharing model of PRIFORMAN Project

Community forest arrangements are strategic tools in forestry for enhancing business networks and valuing agro-silvo-pastoral lands.

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European Atlas of Forest Tree Species

The European Atlas of Forest Tree Species is the first comprehensive publication of such a unique and essential environmental resource, that is, our trees.

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ES Public Consultation Methods

Abstract The concept of Ecosystem Services (ES) is relatively new to environmental policy. ES provided by the natural environment are recognised as an important contributor, directly and indirectly, to human well-being. These include the ecosystem’s provision of natural commodities (e.g. ag-

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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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URBAN GreenUP good practice kit

This kit will help you in using Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) to make your city more liveable and resilient to climate change. It offers a set of best practices and recommendations that cover all the stages of NbS implementation: how to select the right NbS, how to set one up, and how to monitor it

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Planning and implementing nature-based solutions - summary

This report is a summary of the proGIreg project's efforts in planning and implementing nature-based solutions, the summary is derived from in-depth reports linked to the end of each chapter. Explore the reports to learn more!

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Conexus Life-Lab factsheet series - Monitoring of socio-environmental services of urban green spaces

In recent years, the City of Barcelona has demonstrated its intention of increasing and improving greenery and biodiversity at the service of citizens through a series of policies, plans, measures, and other initiatives. In this pilot, the social and environmental services provided by urban green

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GIZ ValuES - Method Profile: Participatory economic valuation methods

There is no clear definition of participatory economic valuation methods. wo common features can be identified: a concern with reflecting stakeholders’ own perceptions, references and categories of value, and efforts to ensure that ecosystem service users and beneficiaries are directly

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Mapping to support REDD+ planning and secure multiple benefits: toolbox and tutorials for QGIS and ArcGIS

GIS training materials and tools have been developed for use in planning REDD+ activities that deliver multiple benefits. These resources are designed to assist technical staff to undertake spatial analysis to identify areas suitable for specific REDD+ policies and measures, and which are likely to

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ZÖLD-KÉK INFRASTRUKTÚRA: Városi kékinfrastruktúra, városi zöldinfrastruktúra jógyakorlatok

A Szent István Egyetem Tájépítészeti és Településtervezési kara által az URBACT BINIR projekt keretén belül készített összefoglaló anyag. A zöldinfrastruktúrának nem csak az ökoszísztémára van pozitív hatása, hanem a társadalom egészségi állapotára, a település gazdasági vonzerejére, valamint az

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Green Infrastructure, a wealth for cities - URBES Factsheet #6

This URBES factsheet outlines the key components of Green Infrastructure and explores the linkages between the EU Green Infrastructure Strategy and the urban context. Using examples from Barcelona, it presents how cities can use Green Infrastructure to tackle environmental, social and economic

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Voices from the NetworkNature Nature-based Solutions Hubs - A booklet of success stories

NetworkNature is working to expand the nature-based solutions (NbS) community and provide support for implementing and amplifying NbS. One way we do this is by investing in relationships and working with local partners to grow locally-based networks. This booklet, produced in collaboration with the

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The Restoration Initiative. 2020 year in review

"The Restoration Initiative: 2020 year in review" presents an overview of progress and stories from the second year implementation of The Restoration Initiative (TRI) programme. With support from the Global Environment Facility, this pathbreaking programme led by IUCN in partnership with

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