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Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation and Resilience in Urban Areas

, 2021
Urban areas face several environmental problems and risks related to water management, such as floods and degradation of water quality, enhancing population vulnerability and threatening urban sustainability. These problems are expected to be exacerbated
Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira, Ferreira, C. S. S., Kapović-Solomun, Marijana, Kristina Potočki, Kalantari, Zahra,, Zahra Kalantari, Potočki, Kristina, Potočki, K., Kapović-Solomun, M., Marijana Kapović-Solomun, Ferreira, Carla Sofia Santos,   +10 more
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Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Biodiversity

, 2021
Biodiversity loss now ranks as one of the most significant global drivers of environmental change. In an increasingly urbanized world, there is enormous potential to address this problem through conservation, restoration, and creation of new urban ...
Clement, Sarah, Sarah Clement
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Uncertainties in deforestation emission baseline methodologies and implications for carbon markets

Nature Communications, 2023
Carbon credits generated through jurisdictional-scale avoided deforestation projects require accurate estimates of deforestation emission baselines, but there are serious challenges to their robustness.
Hoong Chen Teo, Nicole Hui Li Tan, Qiming Zheng, Annabel Jia Yi Lim, Rachakonda Sreekar, Xiao Chen, Yuchuan Zhou, Tasya Vadya Sarira, Jose Don T. De Alban, Hao Tang, Daniel A. Friess, Lian Pin Koh   +11 more
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Financing nature-based solutions

, 2021
Nature-based solutions build upon and emphasise the economic and social value embedded in biodiversity and ecosystem services. • Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction may initially entail higher investment ...
Calliari E., Larosa F., Mysiak J., Staccione A.   +3 more
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Urban stormwater retention capacity of nature-based solutions at different climatic conditions [PDF]

, 2022
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Kõiv-Vainik, Margit, Mander, Ülo, Espenberg, M, Kill, Keit, Espenberg, Mikk, Uuemaaa, Evelyn, Kõiv-Vainik, M, Kasak, K, Palta, Monica M., Mander, Ü, Palta, MM, Teemusk, Alar, Uuemaa, E, Scholz, Miklas, Törökc, Liliana, Maddison, M, Scholz, M, Maddison, Martin, Török, L, Kill, K, Teemusk, A, Kasak, Kuno   +21 more
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Previous Shoreline Dynamics Determine Future Susceptibility to Cyclone Impact in the Sundarban Mangrove Forest

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Extreme weather events are a cause of mangrove forest loss and degradation globally. Almost half of the world’s mangroves are found in the tropical cyclone belt, and forests often experience disturbance in structure, functioning and ecosystem service ...
Radhika Bhargava, Daniel A. Friess, Daniel A. Friess   +2 more
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Nature-Based Solutions Accelerating Urban Sustainability Transitions in Cities: Lessons from Dresden, Genk and Stockholm Cities [PDF]

, 2017
Nature based solutions are amongst other practices that transition initiativeswork with when intervening in their place and change its fabric. Focusing on theactors establishing, driving and scaling these solutions in and across cities, we cometo evince ...
Markus Egermann, Egermann, Markus, Niki Frantzeskaki, Borgström, Sara, Leen Gorissen, Sara Borgström, Gorissen, Leen, Franziska Ehnert, Frantzeskaki, Niki, Ehnert, Franziska   +9 more
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Nature-Based Solutions as Critical Urban Infrastructure for Water Resilience

, 2023
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are key for managing water resources, as well as providing many other benefits. While traditionally “gray” highly engineered strategies have been used to manage water in urban areas, we articulate the role that NBS can play ...
McPhillips, Lauren, Sauer, Jason R., Winfrey, Brandon, Rosenzweig, Bernice, Wu, Hong, Rojas Quezada, Carolina Alejandra   +5 more
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Fishers' tales—Impact of artisanal fisheries on threatened sharks and rays in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh

Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
Increasing fishing pressure has negatively impacted elasmobranch populations globally. Despite high levels of historical and current fishing pressure, the Bay of Bengal region remains data‐poor.
Alifa Bintha Haque, Rachel D. Cavanagh, Julia L. Y. Spaet   +2 more
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Innovative Green Roof Materials for India: Synergizing Nature-Based Solutions and Sustainable Manufacturing for Climate-Responsive Cities [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
Rapid urbanization has exacerbated issues like heat islands, stormwater flooding, and increasing solid waste production, which has led to find sustainable solutions in urban infrastructure.
Thyagaraj Vishnu, Hanumesh Mithun, Muniyappa Mohan, Saravanakumar A.   +3 more
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