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Nature-based solutions for microclimate regulation and air quality: Analysis of EU-funded projects
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) represent a key approach to improve air quality, microclimate, health and well-being of urban populations. The European Commission will adopt in 2021 a zero pollution action plan for air, water and soil and it is known that especially air quality has a tremendous effect
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Method Factsheet - Species Distribution Models
Species distribution models (SDMs) (Franklin, 2009) have shown great potential in helping to achieve conservation planning goals by refining our knowledge of species distributions (Jetz et al., 2012). SDMs extrapolate species distribution data in space and time, usually based on a statistical
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Georgian Biodiversity Database
This internet resource aims to introduce the world-wide scientific (and not only scientific) community to the biological diversity of Georgia (and, to certain extent, the Caucasus ecoregion).
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GIZ ValuES - Method Profile: Scoping ecosystem services for impact assessment (WRI)
This manual for scoping ecosystem services is related to impact assessments. It enables the identification of key ecosystem services that could be impacted by or could constrain the successful implementation of projects at a point when they can still be modified. The complete manual covers six
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Public procurement of Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) can be a powerful tool for cities dealing with the contemporary sustainability challenges including degradation of natural capital and ecosystem services, vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters, as well as corresponding health and wellbeing issues. NbS
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Seedbed Intervention: Umeå
The Cultivating City of Umeå carried out its seedbed intervention. Bölevägen is the name of the street that will be reconstructed over the next two years, along four green spaces that will be designed and developed. The seedbed intervention site, Aspgärdan, was an empty area close to an English
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Conexus Deliverable 4.3: Ecosystem of guidelines and decision-support tools to stimulate NbS co-creation
The CONEXUS project has meticulously curated this Ecosystem of Guidelines to effectively disseminate the rich insights and practical knowledge gained through the comprehensive and action-oriented work on nature-based solutions across Latin America and Europe. This collection of guiding resources is
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Experimental Biodiversity Accounting as a component of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA)
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA) provides a framework to measure and link ecosystem service flows supported by biodiversity and other ecosystem characteristics (e.g. soil type, altitude) with the economy and other human activities.
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Planning for a healthy environment - good practice guidance for green infrastructure and biodiversity
This guidance is designed to offer advice to planning practitioners on how green infrastructure and biodiversity can be enhanced and protected through the planning system. It summarises the latest policy drivers and distils the best of our current policy responses. It also sets out practical
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Training for Forest Technicians, Researchers, and Employees on Fundraising and Communication Topics as Assets for Ecosystem Services Enhancement Projects.
The sale of sustainability credits and payment for ecosystem services, other than the traditional sale of timber, is an important objective and can be improved thanks to a good communication strategy and empowering specific communication skills.
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Specific silvicultural itineraries to optimize the production of quality timber and economic yield of Pinus pinaster.
Four silvicultural scenarios have been created considering the wood quality: - Standard scenario (M2): Involves three thinnings and a final felling. - Short rotation scenario with subsidies (M4): Includes one thinning and a final felling. - No management scenario (M8): Only comprises a final
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INTERLACE MOOC on Nature-based Solutions: (2) CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT as a tool to build local awareness and participation around NbS
Urban areas across the globe are facing unprecedented challenges—pollution, climate change, urban sprawl—and traditional solutions are falling short. The INTERLACE project’s Massive Open Online Course showcases how nature-based solutions offer a promising approach to help create resilient,
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Guiding question on ecosystem services and governance for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers
In society many actors and structures are at play and interact in myriad ways. The term governance goes beyond traditional forms of political steering (i.e. regulation, public management and hierarchical state activity). Governance emphasizes novel instruments (such as voluntary and market-based
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Socio-Economic Benefits of the EU Marine Protected Areas
This report collects, systematises and discusses the available evidence on the socio-economic benefits provided by the protection of European coastal areas and seascapes. The focus is on benefits associated with MPAs.
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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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GCCA NbS Reportage: IT’S TIME TO RESET OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
What exactly are nature-based solutions (NbS)? Even the experts can’t always agree on a definition or even what to call them – NbS also include as ecosystem-based adaptation, natural climate solutions, nature-based infrastructure or assisted natural regeneration. But whatever you call it, there’s a
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Understanding farmer uptake of measures that support biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - EKLIPSE final report
This report provides a summary of findings by the EKLIPSE Expert Working Group and their analysis of 'Understanding Farmer Uptake: What measures are most promising to deliver on supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in the next round of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)?'.
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Carbon Sequestration from a Greenhouse Gas Value perspective - Study and online application
Terrestrial ecosystems regulate climate by their exchange of greenhouse gases with the atmosphere. The "Greenhouse Gas Value"(GHGV) is a measure for the greenhouse gas benefit of preserving an ecosystem over a multi-year time frame, or the cost in terms of greenhouse gases when the
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OPERAs D4.3 Synthesis report on the operational potential of ES/NC instruments
This report is the synthesis deliverable of WP4 and thus brings together the overarching message of experiences and results of the joint WP4 Instruments work. It is aimed at those developing ES and NC instruments, or those considering funding the development of such instruments, in order to ensure
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