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, 2022 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.
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Nature-based solutions for urban sustainability. [PDF]
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Nature-Based Solutions and Circularity in Cities [PDF]
Circular Economy and Sustainability, 2021 AbstractCities worldwide are facing a number of serious challenges including population growth, resource depletion, climate change, and degradation of ecosystems. To cope with these challenges, the transformation of our cities into sustainable systems using a holistic approach is required. The pathway to this urban transition is adopting the concept of
Nataša Atanasova +8 more
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Principles for urban nature-based solutions [PDF]
Ambio, 2022 AbstractNature-based solutions (NBS) were introduced as integrated, multifunctional and multi-beneficial solutions to a wide array of socio-ecological challenges. Although principles for a common understanding and implementation of NBS were already developed on a landscape scale, specific principles are needed with regard to an application in urban ...
Nadja Kabisch +2 more
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Nature-based solutions for atoll habitability. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Abstract Atoll societies have adapted their environments and social systems for thousands of years, but the rapid pace of climate change may bring conditions that exceed their adaptive capacities. There is growing interest in the use of ‘nature-based solutions' to facilitate the continuation of dignified and meaningful lives on atolls
Barnett J +8 more
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil EngineeringThis 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.
bin Ninsalam, Muhammad Yazid +4 more
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Innovating with Nature: From Nature-Based Solutions to Nature-Based Enterprises [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 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.
Esmee D. Kooijman +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 Despite the looming land scarcity for agriculture, cropland abandonment is widespread globally. Abandoned cropland can be reused to support food security and climate change mitigation.
Qiming Zheng +5 more
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Diverse Environmental Microbiota as a Tool to Augment Biodiversity in Urban Landscaping Materials
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Human activities typically lead to simplified urban diversity, which in turn reduces microbial exposure and increases the risk to urban dwellers from non-communicable diseases.
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