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Calling all #NatureBasedSolutions seekers, experts, engineers, researchers & students!
Interested in joining a @LinkedIn #community that works together to overcome social-climate related challenges through #innovation & #sustainability?
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🌍 Nature offers us so many things at no cost that these benefits – called “ecosystem services” – are not always fully reflected in the benefit-cost analysis.
📸@TEEB4ME
''We must measure what we value, not just value what is simple to measure.''
In collaboration with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, OIRA is publishing a draft of the first-ever US government guideline on the inclusion of ecosystem services in benefit-cost analysis.
Once drafted, these guidelines will promote and enhance regulatory analysis and public investment.
📘 Find out more here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
🏙 Cities are living environments that are constantly changing, shifting, and growing over time and can be characterized by heavy resource depletion, high emissions and high population densities.
The publication #𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 shows the current state of urban NBS research in science and practice in 16 chapters created by 60 authors from the global North and South.
#𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 helps to understand how NBS can be better managed, planned and used.
📘 Find out more here: elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o…
How are #EU-Funded #NatureBasedSolutions research projects addressing Societal Challenges across Ecosystems? A 🧵...
Learn more about the #NatureBasedSolutions projects across #ecosystems and their benefits in the @NetworkNatureEU visual: networknature.eu/product/284…
Get to know the story behind our experts: Jaap Klein
Jaap Klein is the senior project manager #climateadaptation and #urban #watermanagement @WitteveenBos.
Interested to read in which #NatureBasedSolutions projects he was involved? Find out: nature-basedsolutions.com/pa…
What is #ClimateSmartAgriculture (CSA)?
CSA is an approach that helps guide actions to transform agri-food systems towards green & #climateresilient practices - to store #carbon & improve resilience & soil health.
Examples:
· vertical farming
· cover crops
· prescribed grazing
Interested in joining a @LinkedIn #community that works together to overcome social-climate related challenges through #NatureBasedSolutions, #innovation & #sustainability?
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What does a #WaterTreatment Expert do? 💧
Veerle Luimstra is a consultant in the #wastewatertechnology group at @WitteveenBos where she enjoys most to work on projects related to #natural and #sustainable systems for #water treatment and #conservation.
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💧 "The #water determines, the #landscape leads, whilst #people and #nature profit," is the mantra that provides guidance in most of the projects of #NatureBasedSolutions #Sustainable #River Management Expert, Jeroen Rijke.
Interested in his expertise? nature-basedsolutions.com/co…
How to map the potential benefits of #NatureBasedSolutions and identify investment opportunities in cities and along coastlines anywhere in the world❔🌍
In 2022 and 2023 the #NatureBasedSolutions Opportunity Scan has been successfully applied in 32 cities and in 4 #coastal landscapes.
Find out more here: naturebasedsolutions.org/opp…
The NBSOS methodology is a product of @WorldBank Global Program on Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience (GPNBS) at the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (@GFDRR)
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