A rising number of intertwined issues and societal challenges stress urban contexts and their capacity to remain livable and resilient places for people. Traditional urban planning struggles to address simultaneously issues related to climate changes, environmental quality, lack or unequal access to urban services, public health and well-being.
Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) represent actions that make use of (semi)natural ecosystems to address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously producing different benefits in urban contexts both for people and urban environments.
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NATSOLIS addresses the advancement of knowledge in:
- applying a system thinking on the assessment of NBS for urban issues, based on a more comprehensive knowledge of the multiple relations among urban features in the social, economic and ecological domains;
- integrating different modelling tools to evaluate NBS benefits for urban planning;
- adding a spatial component in the developed tools to support decisions on where to locate different configurations of NBS and how these can be integrated into the urban environment (also considering future scenarios);
- increasing the evidence for decision makers and practitioners of benefits and cost-effectiveness of NBS to address different types of urban issues;
- facilitating the planning of the implementation of NBS at different scales and to demonstrate the replicability potential of NBS.