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Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have huge potential to support climate mitigation, adaptation, nature recovery, food security, rural economy and human wellbeing, but implementation is slow and patchy. Some interventions are poor quality, leading to adverse impacts and undermining legitimacy and social support.
To address this challenge, this 18 month research ‘sprint’ – part of the Agile Initiative at the Oxford Martin School – worked with stakeholders to identify and tackle key cultural, scientific and governance barriers to the implementation of high-quality NbS in the UK.
The outputs are presented in our ‘NbS Knowledge Hub’, a one-stop-shop for NbS practitioners and policy-makers containing:
- The ‘Recipe for Engagement’ – a best practice guide for practitioners to engage meaningfully with stakeholders and the public.
- An open source software package to help people create opportunity maps for planning nature recovery and NbS at landscape scale for any area in England.
- A biodiversity and soil health monitoring tool
- A funding finder tool
- An interactive library of guidance on planning, implementation and monitoring NbS.
- A series of policy and research briefs.
