How can local planning for nature-based solutions be best reconciled with regional and national strategies? What are the most effective ways to combine place-based participatory approaches with evidence and analysis of the likely effectiveness of nature-based solutions?
Background
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:
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Nature Recovery and Regional Development
The United Kingdom (UK) has set ambitious targets to reverse biodiversity decline and ensure that 30% of land and sea is protected for wildlife by 2030, simultaneously contributing to reaching net zero, adapting to clima...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project directly addresses the question by focusing on the development of Local Nature Recovery Strategies, reconciling local planning with regional and national strategies, and combining participatory approaches with evidence and analysis of the effectiveness of nature-based solutions.
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Designing Landscape Stewardship
Designing Landscape Stewardship will deliver a series of participatory design events across three geographic locations in Scotland where ecosystem restoration is underway. The project will support initiatives in bioregio...
Funded by: AHRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on participatory design events for ecosystem restoration and governance, aligning with the question's emphasis on combining place-based participatory approaches with evidence and analysis of nature-based solutions.
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Evidence for nature based solutions (NBSGap)
In order to make informed strategy for the good of UK citizens and to implement it through well-founded and informed policy, the policy-makers need evidence. They need to know what is known in an area and what has yet to...
Funded by: NERC
Why might this be relevant?
The project systematically reviews the evidence available on nature-based solutions and provides a systematic map of the evidence relating to NBS and the UK for the targeted outcomes.