Outputs
Below is a collection of Nature-based Solutions Initiative outputs from our team or closely related partners. For academic papers solely on Nature-based Solutions see our bibliography.
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Integrated above- and below-ground ecological monitoring for nature-based solutions
May 2025Our study provides practitioners with a framework for selecting optimum metrics for assessing above- and below-ground ecological outcomes of NbS relevant to the location in which they are being implemented
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A menu of standards for green infrastructure in England: effective and equitable or a race to the bottom?
January 2025This paper draws on original research into the design of a menu of GI standards for England, commissioned by Natural England—a United Kingdom Government agency. It describes the evolution of the standards within the context of United Kingdom government policy initiatives for nature and climate.
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Advancing nature-based solutions through enhanced soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom
November 2024This paper examines challenges and opportunities in selecting suitable soil health metrics. We find that standardization can facilitate widespread monitoring of soil health with benefits for stakeholders and user groups
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Harnessing Nature-based Solutions For Economic Recovery
November 2024This policy briefing outlines the key role of nature-based solutions (NbS) in supporting sustainable economic recovery and societal resilience.
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Harnessing nature-based solutions for economic recovery: A systematic review
October 2024A systematic review of 66 reviews on the economic impact of nature-based interventions. Nature-based solutions (NbS) involve working with nature to address societal challenges in ways that benefit communities and biodiversity locally. However, their role supporting economic recovery from crises, such as those arising from conflicts or pandemics remains underexplored.
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Scaling up Nature-based Solutions in England’s National Climate Change Adaptation Programme
September 2023Conventional engineered options for climate adaptation (such as dams, sea walls or air-conditioning) are often energy-intensive and may have adverse impacts on biodiversity. In contrast, NbS offer multiple additional benefits for people, nature and the economy.
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Developing A UK Seagrass Code
June 2023Seagrass protection and restoration would provide valuable carbon removal and storage, alongside substantial benefits for people and nature, but more needs to be done to encourage this through policy and nature financing.
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Embedding nature recovery in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
March 2023The evidence presented here shows the importance of providing more accessible nature-rich green spaces that benefits everyone, as a core part of levelling-up and regeneration.
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How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative
October 2022Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium to reconcile both global and national elements for developing national food and land-use system pathways.
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Nature-based Solutions in Bangladesh: Evidence of Effectiveness for Addressing Climate Change and Other Sustainable Development Goals
November 2021Many lower-income countries are highly vulnerable to the impacts of natural disasters and climate change, due to their geographical location and high levels of poverty. In response, they are developing climate action plans that also support their sustainable development goals, but conventional adaptation approaches such as hard flood defenses can be expensive and unsustainable.
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Ensuring Nature-based Solutions support both biodiversity and climate change adaptation
October 2021To better understand the biodiversity outcomes of NbS implemented for climate change adaptation. Although nature-based solutions (NbS) should by definition support biodiversity, not all projects framed as NbS have been shown to achieve this in practice.
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Nature-based solutions in UK climate adaptation policy
October 2021A report providing evidence that a wide range of NbS are being deployedin the UK, protecting and enhancing the services that nature provides.
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Can Nature-Based Solutions Deliver a Win-Win for Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation?
October 2021We conducted a systematic review of the outcomes of 109 nature-based interventions for climate change adaptation using 33 indicators of ecosystem health across eight broad categories (e.g. diversity, biomass, ecosystem functioning and population dynamics).
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Getting the message right on nature-based solutions to climate change
December 2020Here, we discuss the promise and pitfalls of the NbS framing and its current political traction, and we present recommendations on how to get the message right.
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The role of nature in a UK NDC
December 2020The Government is advised to recognise the important role that investing in nature can play in helping it achieve its climate ambition by highlighting it in the UK’s NDC and Long-Term Strategy.
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The Role of Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation in UK Policy
December 2020If the UK is to achieve its Paris Agreement NDC goal of ‘at least 68% reduction’ in GHG emissions by 2030 on 1990 levels, then nature protection and restoration will need to form part of its overall strategy for success, as carbon is locked up and stored in natural ecosystems.
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Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation
June 2020To enable NbS policy and practice to be better informed by science, we produced the first global systematic map of evidence on the effectiveness of nature-based interventions for addressing the impacts of climate change and hydrometeorological hazards on people.
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