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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Main Author: World Bank
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-365072021-11-10T05:11:30Z A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience World Bank URBAN FOREST CLIMATE CHANGE URBAN RESILIENCE INTEGRATED SYSTEMS APPROACH ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION TERRACE OPEN GREEN SPACE URBAN FARMING INLAND WETLANDS FLOODPLAINS 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. 2021-11-09T15:57:21Z 2021-11-09T15:57:21Z 2021-11-08 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/502101636360985715/A-Catalogue-of-Nature-based-Solutions-for-Urban-Resilience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36507 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: City Development Strategy
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topic URBAN FOREST
CLIMATE CHANGE
URBAN RESILIENCE
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS APPROACH
ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION
TERRACE
OPEN GREEN SPACE
URBAN FARMING
INLAND WETLANDS
FLOODPLAINS
spellingShingle URBAN FOREST
CLIMATE CHANGE
URBAN RESILIENCE
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS APPROACH
ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION
TERRACE
OPEN GREEN SPACE
URBAN FARMING
INLAND WETLANDS
FLOODPLAINS
World Bank
A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
description 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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title A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
title_short A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
title_full A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
title_fullStr A Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
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