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Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas
From the conclusion: Urban ecosystems are possibly those that people most relate to and may experience in daily life. They have particular importance for local climate adaptation and related cultural ser-vices. Especially with rising urbanisation, urban ecosystems therefore become more and more important from a socio-ecological perspective. Cities with their hotter micro-climates may also serve as demonstration systems for NBS to climate change mitigation and adaptation. As reviewed in this report, NBS using green spaces have significant potential to decrease the vulnerability and enhance the resilience of cities and their residents in light of climate change. They may serve as proactive adaptation options for municipalities. This report summarises discussion results about the importance of NBS to climate change in urban areas and their rural surroundings. Further emphasis is placed on the potential of nature-based approaches to also create multiple-benefits underlined with some of the latest scientific findings. Discussions considered current European policy in implementation of NBS, leading to recommendations for putting NBS into action. Taking the need for action into account, the review part of this report summarizes current knowledge on selected key issues related to NBS for climate change adaptation and mitigation in urban areas, namely green roofs and facades as well as urban parks and street green.
Climate change has significant impacts on society and biodiversity. People are likely to experience climate change impacts most directly in cities and urban areas. Technical solutions are only one aspect of climate adaptation and mitigation, while nature-based solutions can foster functioning ecosystems as essential backbone to climate mitigation and adaptation. Management that focusses on green infrastructure as measure towards greening cities has the potential to meet several goals across sectors and may also be cost-effective and sustainable. Nature-based solutions to adaptation can therefore help to address both the 2020 targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as well as those of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The aim of this workshop was to showcase and explore good practice of nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe's urban areas and their surrounding landscapes, and to analyse challenges and identify indicators of success. An explicit goal was to assess how this concept can help conservation to work across sectors in collaboration with e.g. urban planning, architecture, forestry as well as water, tourism and health. This workshop also served as a thinktank (a) to steer the content of the international BfN/ENCA conference on 'Biodiversity and climate change in urban areas and their rural surroundings' including interactive workshops on 17.-19.11.2015 in Bonn/Germany, (b) to guide the development of a background review paper, and (c) to provide input to an ENCA position paper with recommendations for policy, practice and science that should receive further input from the Bonn conference
Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas
From the conclusion: Urban ecosystems are possibly those that people most relate to and may experience in daily life. They have particular importance for local climate adaptation and related cultural ser-vices. Especially with rising urbanisation, urban ecosystems therefore become more and more important from a socio-ecological perspective. Cities with their hotter micro-climates may also serve as demonstration systems for NBS to climate change mitigation and adaptation. As reviewed in this report, NBS using green spaces have significant potential to decrease the vulnerability and enhance the resilience of cities and their residents in light of climate change. They may serve as proactive adaptation options for municipalities. This report summarises discussion results about the importance of NBS to climate change in urban areas and their rural surroundings. Further emphasis is placed on the potential of nature-based approaches to also create multiple-benefits underlined with some of the latest scientific findings. Discussions considered current European policy in implementation of NBS, leading to recommendations for putting NBS into action. Taking the need for action into account, the review part of this report summarizes current knowledge on selected key issues related to NBS for climate change adaptation and mitigation in urban areas, namely green roofs and facades as well as urban parks and street green.
Climate change has significant impacts on society and biodiversity. People are likely to experience climate change impacts most directly in cities and urban areas. Technical solutions are only one aspect of climate adaptation and mitigation, while nature-based solutions can foster functioning ecosystems as essential backbone to climate mitigation and adaptation. Management that focusses on green infrastructure as measure towards greening cities has the potential to meet several goals across sectors and may also be cost-effective and sustainable. Nature-based solutions to adaptation can therefore help to address both the 2020 targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as well as those of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The aim of this workshop was to showcase and explore good practice of nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in Europe's urban areas and their surrounding landscapes, and to analyse challenges and identify indicators of success. An explicit goal was to assess how this concept can help conservation to work across sectors in collaboration with e.g. urban planning, architecture, forestry as well as water, tourism and health. This workshop also served as a thinktank (a) to steer the content of the international BfN/ENCA conference on 'Biodiversity and climate change in urban areas and their rural surroundings' including interactive workshops on 17.-19.11.2015 in Bonn/Germany, (b) to guide the development of a background review paper, and (c) to provide input to an ENCA position paper with recommendations for policy, practice and science that should receive further input from the Bonn conference
Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas
Kabisch, Nadja (author) / Stadler, Jutta (author) / Korn, Horst (author) / Bonn, Aletta (author)
BfN-Skripten ; 446
2016
1 Online-Ressource (60 Seiten)
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Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas
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