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Natural Capital & Ecosystem Services: an introduction to the concepts (video)
Dr. Anne Guerry, Chief Strategy Officer and Lead Scientist for the Natural Captial Project, introduces the concepts of natural capital and ecosystem services.
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Using ecosystem risk assessment science for ecosystem restoration: A guide to applying the Red List of Ecosystems to ecosystem restoration
This guide was developed to promote the application of the science of ecosystem risk assessment, which involves measuring the risk of ecosystem collapse, in ecosystem restoration. It explores how the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems and ecosystem restoration can be jointly deployed to reduce risk of
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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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EDGES - Ecologically Scaled Edge Responses: Patterns, Mechanisms and Predictive Modelling
Edge effects are among the key processes affecting biological populations and communities in fragmented landscapes, mediating landscape-scale patterns in species richness and abundance. This has been the subject of intense research over the past decades, demonstrating that edge-responses are
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State of the art, good practices and NBS typology
This report presents a series of developments, trends and case studies that exemplify the growing importance that Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), as well as other closely related concepts, are having in thinking and practice around reconciling urban planning, human well- being and sustainability,
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Not Simply Green: Nature-Based Solutions as a Concept and Practical Approach for Sustainability Studies and Planning Agendas in Cities
The concept of a nature-based solution (NbS) has been developed in order to operationalize an ecosystem services approach within spatial planning policies and practices, to fully integrate the ecological dimension, and, at the same time, to address current societal challenges in cities. It exceeds
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UNDRR Website: Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction
UNDRR developed the website Words into Action: Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction that offers practical, expert-informed guidance on setting up and implementing nature-based solutions, for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation. Explore the website with reports
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The Norwegian Nature Index
Norway's Nature Index is intended to document overall trends for the state of major ecosystems throughout the country, and to provide a readily available overview of whether Norway is making progress towards its goal of halting the loss of biodiversity.
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CIC! - Guidelines for setting up a non-profit resident-run enterprise for managing community assets
Guidelines for setting up a non-profit resident-run enterprise for managing community assets, applying an adaptive PPP approach.
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The economic case for nature
The Economic Case for Nature is part of a series of papers by the World Bank that lays out the economic rationale for investing in nature and recognizes how economies rely on nature for services that are largely underpriced. This report presents a first-of-its-kind integrated ecosystem-economy
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Wal-ES Platform
Wal-ES is the walloon (Southern part of Belgium) platform on ecosystem services which aims to develop decision support tools based on this concept. During its one year of funding, Wal-ES set up the foundations for the development of these tools. A conceptual and an assessment frameworks have been
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Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks
An Object-Oriented Bayesian Network (OOBN) is a probabilistic model the uses an intuitive graphical representation to specify dependence and independence relations in a problem domain. It has nodes that represent variables which can represent observed/unobserved quantities, effects, causes of
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Sustainable Water Management - Treatment Wetlands Design
Nature-based solutions like constructed/treatment wetlands, can play an essential role for the water pollution control at urban scale and for reducing the flooding risk while providing positive effects on biodiversity, social acceptance and economics.
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Demonstrating the impact of innovative nature-based solutions
This Infographic shows the environmental, social and economic impact of innovative nature-based solutions in Connecting Nature cities Genk, Glasgow, and Poznań.
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Conexus Life-Lab Factsheet Series: Co-producing NbS in the “Remodelación Panamericana Norte”
The regeneration of the “Remodelación Panamericana Norte” neighborhood, facilitated by the program “Quiero Mi Barrio,” enabled the improvement of the neighborhood by bringing in Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The accompanying five-step collaborative process supported improving social security and
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The Purpose of Nature’s Impact on Human Health Guide
The Nature’s Impact on Human Health Guide is a resource primarily intended for practitioners seeking to evaluate the impact of green interventions on human health to inspire additional investment of time and resources in nature-based solutions to human health challenges. The reasons to do so are
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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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Nature Value Explorer
www.natuurwaardeverkenner.be The Flemish government recognises the importance of these ecosystem services (ESS). The manual and easy to apply tool uses pragmatic methods to value ecosystem services in rural and urban environments. The tool helps everyone (land managers, planners, national and
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The BUFFER project - how research allowed classifying Marine Protected Areas for better clarity in the sustainable use of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity
The BUFFER project has been awarded the second edition of the BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact, highlighting its excellent achievements in terms of advancing science and practice of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The project was funded under the 2011-12 BiodivERsA joint call on “
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Time-use Studies Factsheet
Time use study is an innovation of the conventional stated preference techniques, in particular taken from the contingent valuation approach. In this case, the payment vehicle is expressed in labour hours rather than monetary units (use in the classical willingness to pay studies) (Kenter et al.
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