Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient, Nature Positive and Socially Just Communities in Diverse Landscapes (Naturescapes)

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are interventions designed to use the properties of nature to address multiple sustainability challenges and contribute to biodiversity. They are increasingly recognised as a crucial means through which the intertwined challenges of climate change, the loss of biodiversity and social injustice can be addressed. Yet despite their growing popularity, we lack an understanding of the synergies and trade-offs that multiple NBS bring and of who benefits, under which conditions.

At the same time, the challenge of implementing NBS remains significant. Collaboration and partnership are essential ingredients for successful NBS implementation, yet moving from individual NBS to the landscape scale raises significant challenges for how the governance and finance needed can be achieved.

Our work will generate an enhanced dialogue between society and nature, contribute to more inclusive and even sustainable development, strengthen NBS implementation and help to shape a new agenda for transformative NBS governance across the EU and internationally.