How can we effectively protect, manage and restore natural and modified ecosystems to help address societal challenges? Whilst also providing biodiversity benefits and human wellbeing – from abundant wildlife to green jobs to clean water?
Societal challenges include mitigating and adapting to climate change. These could be addressed by supporting ecosystem functions that deliver services such as carbon sequestration, coastal resilience, and natural flood management.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Nature-based solutions (NbS*) are responses to societal challenges that involve working with nature to deliver benefits for both people and biodiversity. They include protecting existing ecosystems, restoring degraded ec...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
The project addresses the question fully and the authors have the necessary expertise.
Our research aims to identify whether the benefits flowing to us from the UK's land ecosystems - including the provision of food, recreational value, water quality, natural flood protection, and greenhouse gas storage - ...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Exeter
The project partially addresses the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.
The aim of this project is to use UK peatlands as a case system in which to understand how the combined effects of climate change and changes in land use and management (and other drivers, such as atmospheric deposition)...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University
The project partially addresses the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.