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:
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
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
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.
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
Lead research organisation: NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019)
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.
It is now widely acknowledged that to make adequate and timely progress in the direction of biodiversity mainstreaming, three critical aspects – previously overlooked or insufficiently handled by supranational policies –...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON
The project addresses the establishment of bottom-up initiatives, engagement of societal stakeholders, and enabling nature-based solutions, aligning with the question on reconciling local planning with regional and national strategies.