A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
Cities worldwide are facing resilience challenges as climate risks interact with urbanization, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, poverty, and rising socioeconomic inequality. Extreme precipitation events, flooding, heatwaves, and drought...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/502101636360985715/A-Catalogue-of-Nature-based-Solutions-for-Urban-Resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36507 |
| Summary: | Cities worldwide are facing
resilience challenges as climate risks interact with
urbanization, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services,
poverty, and rising socioeconomic inequality. Extreme
precipitation events, flooding, heatwaves, and droughts are
causing economic losses, social insecurity, and affecting
wellbeing. Over time, urban resilience challenges are
expected to grow, driven by processes such as urbanization,
land use, and climate change. Whereas climate change is
expected to increase the frequency and intensity of some
natural hazards, urbanization can also lead to higher
exposure of people and assets in cities. More than half of
the global population lives in cities, and more than seventy
percent are expected to do so by 2050. Nature-based
solutions are approaches that use nature and natural
processes for delivering infrastructure, services, and
integrative solutions to meet the rising challenge of urban
resilience. The catalogue of Nature-based solutions for
urban resilience has been developed as a guidance document
to support the growing demand for NBS by enabling an initial
identification of potential investments in nature-based
solutions. The document is structured as follows: Chapter 2
describes generic principles for integrating NBS into urban
environments. Chapter 3 provides a reader’s guide and holds
the Catalogue of the fourteen NBS families. |
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