Nature-based Solutions: New Influence for Environmental Management and Research in Europe

Abstract

Greening roofs or walls to cool down city areas during summer, to capture storm water, to abate pollution, and to increase human well-being while enhancing biodiversity: nature-based solutions (NBS) refer to the sustainable management and use of nature for tackling societal challenges. Building on and complementing traditional biodiversity conservation and management strategies, NBS integrate science, policy, and practice and create biodiversity benefits in terms of diverse, well-managed ecosystems.

Keywords

biodiversity; ecosystem services; research programming; social-ecological systems; societal challenges; sustainable management

Published in

GAiA
2015, volume: 24, number: 4, pages: 243-248
Publisher: OEKOM VERLAG

SLU Authors

• Brodin, Tomas

  • Umeå University

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.24.4.9

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/119844