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The deliverable "Nature Based Solution Science Briefs" outlines the context for the creation of four NBS policy briefs. These policy briefs are aimed at decision makers to encourage the uptake and application of NBS and contain key recommendations for their implementation. The content and recommendations of the briefs were derived from a review of the literature and the results of a survey disseminated to practitioners of NBS. The purpose of this survey was to gather evidence regarding the perceptions of NBS practitioners on working within the policy framework for implementing NBS, as well as different factors affecting the uptake and lack thereof of NBS in practice, and recommendations for how these could be overcome. These NBS policy briefs should be considered 'active' documents and will be updated throughout 2021 in light of planned consultations with key stakeholders engaged with delivery NBS. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

ZusammenfassungIn der wasserbaulichen Praxis gibt es die grundlegende Unterscheidung zwischen "technischem" und "naturnahem Wasserbau". Diese Unterscheidung wird im vorliegenden Fachbeitrag nun um den Begriff "Naturbasierte Lösungen '/' Nature-based solutions (NbS)"erweitert. Neben einer Beschreibung und Abgrenzung der einzelnen fachlichen Begriffe wird unter Verwendung von Beispielen aus der Praxis die Notwendigkeit der standortspezifischen, von der Genese der Flusslandschaften abhängigen Prozesse zu einer nachhaltigen Verbesserung des gewässerökologischen Zustands hervorgehoben.

This report examines the potential role of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in contributing to a portfolio of actions aimed at enhancing the climate resilience of Honiara's urban residents; as well as proposing specific NbS actions that are appropriate for local context. The conceptual designs highlighted in the report have been informed by a number of site visits; consultations with local and national Government, NGOs and CSOs, and local communities; and participatory design studios held in both Honiara and Melbourne [using 2017 LiDAR data provided by the SI Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS)]. The analysis was also framed by two important local agendas: the potential for Honiara City Council (HCC) to develop an urban greening / liveability strategy, and SPREP's 'Planning for Ecosystem-based Adaptation' project. The developmental process for the designs has also been cognisant of Honiara's Local Planning Scheme (2015, to be updated in 2020) and the Greater Honiara Urban Development Strategy and Action Plan (promoted by the ADB and Solomon Islands Government).

PUBLISHED ; Nature-based solutions (NBS) to address societal challenges have been widely recognised and adopted by governments in climate change and biodiversity strategies. Nevertheless, significant barriers exist for the necessary large-scale implementation of NBS and market development is still in its infancy. This study presents findings from a systematic review of literature and a survey on private sector agents in the planning and implementation of NBS, with the aim to identify them. In this study, we propose a typology for organisations delivering NBS and a categorisation of their economic activities. The most common organisation type found is nature-based enterprise which offers products or services where nature is a core element and used sustainably and engages in economic activity. Moreover, eleven categories of economic activities were identified, ranging from ecosystem restoration, living green roofs, and eco-tourism to smart technologies and community engagement for NBS. Nature-based enterprises contribute to a diverse range of sustainable economic activities, that standard industry classification systems do not adequately account for. The recognition of the value created by these activities is essential for designing effective policy support measures, and for market development of the sector and its potential to facilitate the wider adoption of NBS. ; Nature-based solutions (NBS) to address societal challenges have been widely recognised and adopted by governments in climate change and biodiversity strategies. Nevertheless, significant barriers exist for the necessary large-scale implementation of NBS and market development is still in its infancy. This study presents findings from a systematic review of literature and a survey on private sector agents in the planning and implementation of NBS, with the aim to identify them. In this study, we propose a typology for organisations delivering NBS and a categorisation of their economic activities. The most common organisation type found is nature-based enterprise which offers products or services where nature is a core element and used sustainably and engages in economic activity. Moreover, eleven categories of economic activities were identified, ranging from ecosystem restoration, living green roofs, and eco-tourism to smart technologies and community engagement for NBS. Nature-based enterprises contribute to a diverse range of sustainable economic activities, that standard industry classification systems do not adequately account for. The recognition of the value created by these activities is essential for designing effective policy support measures, and for market development of the sector and its potential to facilitate the wider adoption of NBS.

Introduction -- Nature-based solutions to societal challenges -- Societal challenges -- Climate change impacts on habitats, plants, and animals -- Environmental degradation and impacts on biodiversity - Climate change and environmental degradation impacts on people and the economy -- Developing climate change mitigation -- Developing climate change adaptation -- Restoring degraded ecosystems -- Enhancing sustainable urbanisation -- Improving disaster risk management and resilience -- Adaptive management and nature-based solutions -- Financing nature-based solutions -- Best practices and conclusions.

Part I: About Environmental Education -- Chapter 1 - Training and dissemination about the Environment: keys to impulse the abiotic component of Environmental Education -- Chapter 2 Educating to deliver environmentally focused social innovation -- Chapter 3 - Environmental education for sustainable development: working for fundamental rights -- Chapter 4 - Nature as a teaching resource and the nature of learning -- Part II: Environmental Education and it´s Teaching -- Chapter 5 - The importance of Nature-based solutions to enhance Cabo Verde's Environment -- Chapter 6- Development of Scientific Literacy and the impact of environmental attitudes of citizens in a geological natural space -- Chapter 7- A PBL approach to Environmental Education through a Field Trip and a Science Centre Visit -- Chapter 8- Living labs in higher education: sustainable buildings technologies -- Chapter 9 - What is doing Latin America regarding the teaching of Nature-based solutions to boost Environmental Education? -- Chapter 10 - Lessons learned from including aquaponic experiments into five different tertiary education curricula -- Chapter 11 - Recommendations for promoting Environmental Education through Nature-based solutions at Turkish Higher Education Institutes -- Part III: Environmental Education and Social Engagement -- Chapter 12 - Bees and Society: native biodiversity as a strategy for environmental education based on the processes of nature -- Chapter 13- Perceptions about Sustainable Development of visitants in an Environmental Education Natural Park -- Chapter 14 - Start Park project: co-designing green-blue infrastructures to build resilient communities to climate change -- Chapter 15 - Societal embedding in geoparks: a case study in Portugal -- Chapter 16 - Environmental Education in Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal): a nature-based approach -- Part IV: – Environmental Education and Nature-Based Solutions -- Chapter 17- Green Roof and walls technology standardisation and market across Europe -- Chapter 18- How Nature-Based Solutions can Contribute to Enhance Circularity in Cities -- Chapter 19- Nature-based solutions to promote environmental education on integral ecological sanitation -- Chapter 20 - Nature-based solutions for environmental education in the East Asian context -- Chapter 21- Decarbonizing the European energy sector: frameworks, examples and how education plays a key role -- Chapter 22- Nature-based solutions for water pollution control: promoting environmental education through case studies.

Urbanisation, population growth and climate change, among other challenges, have put pressure on urban infrastructure systems, prompting a shift from large-scale centralised infrastructure to localised nature-based solutions. Mainstreaming nature-based solutions requires a change in the planning and governance systems, and mediating new relationships and configurations between different actors through collaborative governance. Yet, limited guidance exists on how to design collaborative governance for delivering nature-based solutions. This has led to collaboration processes that are established on an ad-hoc basis, relying on the experiences, skills and viewpoints of their champions to endure. This paper synthesises and extends a suite of theoretical frameworks with the practice-based knowledge of urban practitioners across Australia (n = 42), to develop a framework for designing collaborative governance. The framework offers key principles and considerations for designing collaborations on nature-based solutions. It emphasises upfront planning that carefully considers the desired outcomes (the 'why'), assesses the operating environment/context (the 'what'), engages the right actors at the required level of influence (the 'who'), and uses fit-for-purpose structures and process for interaction (the 'how'). The framework also highlights that all those elements need to be considered with the intended level of impact in mind. To illustrate the application of our framework, we will use empirical examples from major urban development programs across Australia that have adopted water sensitive urban design (as part of the broader family of nature-based solutions) through cross-sectoral collaborations.

Nature-based solutions are proliferating in European cities over the past years as viable solutions to urban challenges such as climate change, urban degeneration and aging infrastructures. With evidence amounting about nature-based solutions, there is a need to translate knowledge about nature-based solutions to future policy and planning. In this paper, we analysed fifteen cases of nature-based solutions' experiments across 11 European cities. What makes our case studies stand out is the balanced focus between ecosystem and social benefits in contrast to many published cases on nature-based solutions that have a weighted focus on the climate benefits. From a cross-case comparative analysis we draw seven overarching lessons related to all stages of proof-of-concept and implementation of nature-based solutions in cities: (a) nature-based solutions need to be aesthetically appealing to citizens, (b) nature-based solutions create new green urban commons, (c) experimenting with nature-based solutions requires trust in the local government and in experimentation process itself, (d) co-creation of nature-based solutions requires diversity and learning from social innovation, (e) nature-based solutions require collaborative governance, (f) an inclusive narrative of mission for nature-based solutions can enable integration to many urban agendas and (g) design nature-based solutions so as to learn and replicate them on the long-term. The lessons we draw show that nature-based solutions require multiple disciplines for their design, diversity (of settings) for co-creation and recognition of the place-based transformative potential of nature-based solutions as 'superior' to grey infrastructure. We further discern that urban planners need to have an open approach to collaborative governance of nature-based solutions that allows learning with and about new appealing designs, perceptions and images of nature from different urban actors, allows forming of new institutions for operating and maintaining nature-based solutions ...

In 2015 the European Commission published the report Towards an EU Research and Innovation policy agenda for Nature-Based Solutions and Re-Naturing Cities. The document standardised the many research and innovation opportunities linked to the new designing, realisation and management procedures which utilise the natural component as an important tool to support urban regeneration processes capable of building resilience and developing a green economy. This essay analyses critically the new technical elements of architectural and urban design that make use of nature-based solutions. The aim is to examine their actual capability to generate/regenerate ecosystem services and circular economy processes at various levels.

Nature-based solutions are proliferating in European cities over the past years as viable solutions to urban challenges such as climate change, urban degeneration and aging infrastructures. With evidence amounting about nature-based solutions, there is a need to translate knowledge about nature-based solutions to future policy and planning. In this paper, we analysed fifteen cases of nature-based solutions' experiments across 11 European cities. What makes our case studies stand out is the balanced focus between ecosystem and social benefits in contrast to many published cases on nature-based solutions that have a weighted focus on the climate benefits. From a cross-case comparative analysis we draw seven overarching lessons related to all stages of proof-of-concept and implementation of nature-based solutions in cities: (a) nature-based solutions need to be aesthetically appealing to citizens, (b) nature-based solutions create new green urban commons, (c) experimenting with nature-based solutions requires trust in the local government and in experimentation process itself, (d) co-creation of nature-based solutions requires diversity and learning from social innovation, (e) nature-based solutions require collaborative governance, (f) an inclusive narrative of mission for nature-based solutions can enable integration to many urban agendas and (g) design nature-based solutions so as to learn and replicate them on the long-term. The lessons we draw show that nature-based solutions require multiple disciplines for their design, diversity (of settings) for co-creation and recognition of the place-based transformative potential of nature-based solutions as 'superior' to grey infrastructure. We further discern that urban planners need to have an open approach to collaborative governance of nature-based solutions that allows learning with and about new appealing designs, perceptions and images of nature from different urban actors, allows forming of new institutions for operating and maintaining nature-based solutions to ensure inclusivity, livability and resilience.

Intro -- Foreword by the IUCN President -- From the Desk of the Chair IUCN-CEM -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Opportunities and Advances to Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Strategy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) -- 1.3 Global Recognition and Acceptance of NbS -- 1.4 Progress and Developments in NbS on the Science Front -- 1.4.1 Restoration of Degraded Landscapes and Natural Forests for Increasing Ecosystems Resilience -- 1.4.2 NbS to Manage Heat Islands and Flood Risks in Urban Areas -- 1.4.3 Slope Stabilisation and Reducing Landslide Risks -- 1.5 Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Decision Making Tools for Mainstreaming NbS -- Chapter 2: Scaling up Spring Revival in the Himalaya: Graduating from Spring-Centric to Aquifer-Centric Nature-Based Solutions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Himalayas and Climate Change -- 2.1.2 A Paradigm Shift in Perspective -- 2.1.3 Present State of Knowledge -- 2.2 Objectives and Research Questions -- 2.3 Methods -- 2.3.1 Study Area -- 2.3.2 Landscape-Level Experiments -- 2.3.3 Environmental Isotope Study -- 2.3.4 Landscape-Level Groundwater Recharge Experiment -- 2.4 Results -- 2.4.1 Environment Isotope Study -- 2.4.2 Landscape-Level Groundwater Recharge -- 2.5 Discussions -- 2.5.1 Aquifers Characteristics and Inequity in Groundwater Storage -- 2.5.2 Mountain Aquifers Super-Sensitive to Precipitation Patterns -- 2.5.3 Visualizing the Aquifers Systems -- 2.5.4 Recharge Implications -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Ecosystem-Based Integrated and Participatory Watershed Management -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Literature Review -- 3.3 Ecosystem-Based Watershed Management Approach -- 3.4 Importance of Ecosystem Approach to Watershed Management.