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Dryland nature based solutions for informal settlement upgrading schemes in Africa [PDF]
, 2021 Upgrading schemes are increasingly used by city and national governments to address rapid unplanned peri-urban growth, improve infrastructure services and living conditions, and enhance resilience to climate change for the most marginalised vulnerable ...
Marchant, Robert +7 more
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Introduction: Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation
, 2021 Floods are one of the most common natural disasters affecting numerous people worldwide. Over the last years, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have gained attention as an emerging approach for flood mitigation that can complement traditional grey ...
Paulo Pereira +12 more
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, 2023 Reconnecting humanity to the biosphere must be a focus in cities. Transforming cities to be inclusive, equitable, resilient, and sustainable requires rethinking our relationship to nature, and investing in urban development, design, and governance that ...
McPhearson, Timon, +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 ...
Egermann, Markus +4 more
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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 +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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Nature-based solutions as nodes of green-blue infrastructure networks : a cross-scale, co-creation approach [PDF]
, 2021 Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-MThis research was funded through the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.While nature-based solutions have become foundational to sustainable urban and landscape planning schemes at ...
Baró Porras, Francesc +1 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. +3 more
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Urban stormwater retention capacity of nature-based solutions at different climatic conditions [PDF]
, 2022 Peer ...
Kõiv-Vainik, Margit +21 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 +5 more
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