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OPERAs D4.7 Implementation Guidance

The concepts of Ecosystem Services (ES) and Natural Capital (NC) hold a powerful potential to support more sustainable development, improve ecosystem restoration and conservation, provide nature-based solutions and improve the wellbeing of people. Harnessing this potential in support of policy

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Biodiversity and nature-based solutions: Analysis of EU-funded projects

The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 aims to secure healthy, resilient, biodiversity-rich ecosystems that deliver the range of services essential to the prosperity and well-being of citizens. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) – with healthy and biodiverse ecosystems at their core - are central to

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Assessment of the drudgery of work during the planting phase

Plantation management methods that meet the social and environmental expectations : identifying the phases of work carried out and to assess the arduousness of each of them, in order to target possible recommendations

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INTERLACE report on implemented engagement programmes

The INTERLACE project has been proactive in targeting citizens as part of its objective to increase public awareness and understanding of urban ecosystem restoration and the importance of nature in cities more generally. This objective has been delivered via a Citizen Engagement Programme, which

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Challenges and opportunities of metropolitan agriculture: micro learning online course

Urban and peri-urban agriculture is a matter of growing importance on a territorial scale. It is reflected in actions aimed at reconnecting the urban population to agricultural production and relocating food systems by promoting short circuits. Its development is based on entrepreneurs who carry

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Good practices in Do.Na.To Project communication and technical formation

Effective communication was key in managing Douglas fir forests in Tuscany, with various project partners sharing insights through various platforms and organizing tours and conferences to promote knowledge exchange.

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Gender-based violence and environment linkages

This summary for policy makers synthesises key issues, findings and recommendations from IUCN’s Gender-based violence and environment linkages: the violence of inequality (Castañeda et al., 2020), an expansive publication developed in partnership with USAID. Bringing together existing and new

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Natural Value Initiative

The Natural Value Initiative (NVI) is Fauna & Flora International's (FFI) platform to engage financial institutions around natural capital by developing tools and methodologies that demonstrate the materiality of nature capital and enables mainstreaming thereof into financial decision-

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Quantifying the effects of different management scenarios on ecosystem services and livelihoods in San Martín, Peru

Peru is the second-largest country in Latin America in terms of forest area, and hosts ecosystems of high biodiversity value, large protected areas, ever-changing landscape mosaics with dynamic ecosystem transitions, and many indigenous communities and cultures. Although it is considered a country

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Ten research findings about Nature-Based Enterprises

The first results from the Connecting Nature research survey of nature-based enterprises!

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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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Quick Guide to Eliciting Demand for Ecosystem Services

This summary document provides an overview of the eight-step framework for eliciting demand for ecosystem services put forth by the OPERAs Exemplars in the full guidance document, Eliciting Demand for Ecosystem Services: Results and User Guidance from the OPERAs Demand Synthesis Working Group. The

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Nature in the city: turning knowledge into urban forestry practice

Are you passionate about forestry, sustainability, and urban design? Would you like to learn how to promote the green transition of cities? This online course provided by Uforest is the right opportunity for you! Urbanisation and climate change are two of the most difficult challenges our

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Ecosystem Restoration Playbook: A practical guide to healing the planet

People and the planet are only as healthy as the ecosystems we all depend on. Bringing degraded ecosystems back to life – for example by planting trees, cleaning up riverbanks, or simply giving nature space to recover – increases their benefits to society and biodiversity. Without reviving

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"Bridges to Local Economies" - book presentation at Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam) 14/6

On Wednesday 14 of June, OSMOS will present the TURAS publication "Bridges to Local Economies" at the Pakhuis de Zwijger. The event will describe the general concept of the book while taking a hands-on experience of some of the tools and techniques presented in the book.

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NbS Financing in Fast Follower Cities

This report summarises 1) the progress and results of the fast follower cities (A Coruna (ES), Burgas (BR), Ioannina (GR), Malaga (ES), Nicosia (CY), Pavlos Melas (GR) and Sarajevo (BiH)) of the Connecting Nature project in securing funding for NbS implementation, and 2) the contribution of Open

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Helping Ecosystems in Europe to adapt to climate change

This report summarises much of the work done by, and for, the Climate Change Group of the European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA) between 2011 and 2013.

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Method Factsheet - Smartphone App

The MapNat tool is designed to be applied by citizens and scientists who are interested in mapping the use of mainly cultural, but also some provisional and regulating, services and disservices. MapNat enables its users to map ES in three different ways as points, lines or areas on a map on their

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The importance of protecting human health in the EU climate policies

As anthropogenic climate change continues to escalate, its detrimental efects on human health are becoming pronounced, demanding urgent transformative actions from European policymakers. This policy brief underscores the importance of protecting human health in the EU climate change policies. As

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Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity

The Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity supports policymaking by Developing tools that support the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, including its global dimension; Identifying, filtering and structuring relevant information and making it accessible bringing together

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