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📢 REGREEN features in CORDIS Results in Brief with the article 'Nature-based solutions: accelerating the transition with quantifiable impact' - in six languages. Do spread the news 😊 If you want to get in contact with us, you can reach out to: 🍃 Marianne Zandersen, coordinator 🍃 Gregor Levin, co-coordinator 🍃 Laurence Jones, lead on challenges and #NaturebasedSolutions 🍃 Ellen Banzhaf, lead on #mapping and #modelling #ecosystemservices 🍃 Ben Wheeler, lead on #wellbeing assessment and valuing #benefits of Nature-based Solutions 🍃 Sally Anderson, lead on #education, #participation and #awareness 🍃 Anders Branth Pedersen, lead on #governance including #planning systems 🍃 Åsa Ode Sang, lead on Urban Living Labs 🍃 Andreas Tuerk, lead on #Innovation and Impact Creation ESGO, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), L'Institut Paris Region, Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), University of Exeter, City of Aarhus, Grad Velika Gorica, Fudan University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University of Technology, @Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Richard Hardiman, Jeppe Læssøe, Zelena energetska zadruga (ZEZ) https://lnkd.in/dQhUBV49

📢 We are thrilled to announce the launch of the much anticipated REGREEN NbS Handbook!    This comprehensive guide will take you from concept to action, making it an invaluable resource for anyone looking to make a positive impact in the implementation of NbS for nature based urban development.   The REGREEN NbS Handbook is the culmination of years of collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and local authorities. It provides insights and practical tools for ecosystem restoration and urban resilience.   The NbS Handbook addresses the following key themes:   🔹 Experience and Best Practices: The REGREEN Urban Living Labs have enabled us to gather experiences and best practices in NbS implementation. This collaborative approach allows us to gain a deeper understanding of real-life challenges faced by cities and regions, and which are the most effective strategies that could be adopted.   🔹 Quantifying Ecosystem Services: REGREEN has developed innovative models to quantify the benefits of NbS. These include air pollution removal, cooling, water quality improvement, water flow management, noise mitigation and biodiversity enhancement.   🔹 Mixed-Methods Approach: Our comprehensive approach combines causal loop diagrams, ecological momentary assessment, and economic valuation to quantify the benefits of NbS in urban environments.   🔹 Governance and Planning Systems: REGREEN placed great emphasis on effective governance and planning to support innovative policies and stakeholder engagement. This ensures the successful implementation of green and blue spaces.   🔹 NbS in education: During the project we focused on engaging children and young people in participatory, action-oriented approaches to nature-based learning, and developing educational tools and guidelines to foster sustainable urban practices.   🔹 Evidence and Toolkits: REGREEN provides evidence-based insights and practical toolkits, including GIS tools and interactive resources, to optimise NbS design and planning.   🔹 Business Investment and Decision Support: Our project extends to business and investment, offering decision support tools and guidance for sustainable business models, with three concrete models outlined: public-private-driven, commercially driven consultancy, and citizen-driven.   We invite you to explore the REGREEN NbS Handbook and to join us in our mission to enhance the resilience and sustainability of our urban environments.    🔗 Download the REGREEN NbS Handbook https://lnkd.in/dSYj6UqH   #NatureBasedSolutions #UrbanResilience #Sustainability #EcosystemRestoration #REGREEN #Innovation #sustainablecities #biodiversity  #urbanlivinglabs 

📣 New publication out from REGREEN partner SLU on play biotopes put into practice - creating synergies between children and nature https://lnkd.in/dx94N_Qf The paper synthesizes knowledge on how to understand the many interfaces between children and nature, suggesting perspectives and tools for the management and design of nature-based play settings and frames this transdisciplinary perspective using ‘play biotopes‘. Play biotopes is conceptual framework in which both children's play and species are taken into account. The paper also exemplifies how the play biotope framework can be put into practice as part of (1) an overall approach to landscapes made more useful to both children and other species, (2) affordances for play in nature such as branches from dead wood, and (3) a design process of a playground by giving input to nature-based solutions. Finally, it concludes that play biotopes as a conceptual framework within nature-based solutions can help increase play and biodiversity by promoting structures for climbing, making huts and biotopes otherwise overlooked in urban planning. Marcus Hedblom, Fredrika Mårtensson, Åsa Ode Sang, Björn Wiström, Anna Litsmark

🚨🏙🌳 New paper out from REGREEN! We’re excited to announce the publication of our study, developing a GIS rule-base to explore the implementation and feasibility of the 3─30─300 rule in three European cities 🏙 Paris (France), Aarhus (Denmark) and Velika Gorica (Croatia). This is particularly exciting with the European Nature Restoration Law finally adopted this week, with requirements to stop the loss of urban green space by 2030 and to increase urban blue/green space and canopy cover after 2030. Do we dare be ambitious and what would our cities look like? The 3─30─300 rule is a new urban greening guideline, which aims to provide equitable access to trees and green spaces. In our study, led by Danial Owen, we achieve this by ensuring all residential buildings meet these three key components: 🌳 3 viewable trees from every residential building 🌳 30% neighbourhood green and blue space cover 🌳 300 m from a publicly accessible green space   As we face increasing challenges from urbanisation and climate change, these guidelines are crucial to promoting healthier and more resilient cities. However, meeting these targets could require substantial changes! Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dC6wBFHY   #UrbanGreening #GIS #GreenSpaces #NatureBasedSolutions Alice Fitch, David Fletcher, Julius Knopp, Gregor Levin, Kate Farley, Ellen Banzhaf, Marianne Zandersen, Gwendoline Grandin, Laurence Jones UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) L'Institut Paris Region

🚨 One week left to apply our open call for #speakers! 🚨 Are you involved in initiatives that foster synergy between nature and people through Nature-based Solutions? Whether you're a policy-maker, educator, economist, researcher, natural resource manager, artist, we want to hear from you! Join us at the #NetworkNature Annual Event and debunk a myth on: 🌿 Restoring Nature 🌿 Nature Governance 🌿 Valuing Nature Share your insights and help unravel the potential of NbS to drive transformative change and reverse biodiversity loss! 📥 Submit your myth proposal: https://lnkd.in/e7BrFMmz 📄 Check the general conditions: https://lnkd.in/e9rHA8Ff 🔗 Learn more about the event and register: https://lnkd.in/ePa-MNdU #NatureBasedSolutions #EcosystemRestoration #EcosystemManagement #OpenCall #MythBusting #Biodiversity #NatureValue # REGREEN CLEARINGHOUSE MERLIN WaterLANDS SUPERB project REST-COAST Biodiversa+ MarineSABRES B-USEFUL EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe) MSP4BIO ONEforest project B-Cubed Project ALFAwetlands WET HORIZONS REWET SpongeScapes SpongeBoost Project Forest NavigatorEU ForestPaths Project LAND4CLIMATE CARDIMED EU NatalieProject NBRACER MountResilience The Edible Cities Network URBiNAT DRYvER_h2020 IN-HABIT euPOLIS VARCITIES - Green Cities are Healthier Cities GoGreen Routes JUSTNatureProject NICE NbS DivAirCityH2020 EU funded project GA number 101003799 UPSURGE project D4RUNOFF trans4num Econutri-Project NINFA Project

Très contente d'avoir pu contribuer au livre "Relever les défis écologiques à l'ecole" de Jean-Michel Zakhartchouk avec deux propositions qui résultent du Projet européen Solutions Fondées sur la Nature-REGREEN, WP5 "Education, participation, sensibilisation" et du Programme de Sciences participatives Vigie-Nature Ecole du #MNHN : 1. Art et sciences participatives à l'ecole 2. Mais c'est quoi ces questions? : cette proposition aborde la complexité des relations émotionnelles et affectives avec le vivant non-humain au lycée. #sciences #participatives #école #Education #émotions #nature #NbEducation

Even living nearby and walking alongside (both sides!) the riverbank several times a week - it DID impress me how the restoration work has successfully attracted vegetation, birds, people, and business here! It's such a typical story of how NbS can rebuild the connection to nature, and utilise residents' imagination on how they can live in a metropolitan of 21 million population. Some personal reflections here: during my first visit to Beijing back in 2016, I ran into the construction work of Liangma River totally out of coincidence. That picture is still vivid for me today - waving willow trees and reeds with several cranes hiding, the bright yellow construction tractors making loud noise under the typical Beijing blue sky in the summer. During the past four summers of living and working here, I have engaged in many day-to-day, professional-to-professional, knowledge-to-action dialogues about potentials, challenges, and explorations people can experience and receive from urban regeneration and ecological restoration projects in China, East Asia, and Europe. I am also getting to learn from an unusual perspective about Beijing - creeks, canals, rivers, wetlands, water-centred parks, and even streams. It is full of insightful talks just by walking around, and also being part of this transformation. Again, it's such an honour to work on REGREEN as the start of my professional career, especially with my supportive, encouraging, explorative partners from both European and Chinese sides! It's quite certain for me when the team met up in Ningbo for the first (even though the last 🙊) workshop, that the collaboration and exchanges would continue for a longer time than we all expected - we just need to find the ways.    

New publication by #REGREEN colleagues 🤓 🌳 how street trees increase shading 🌲 🌳 👉 Nicola W., Julius Knopp, Ellen Banzhaf Josip Beber Gordana Mikulcic Krnjaja (2024) Local planning scenario for shading from trees as an urban nature-based solution. City and Environment Interactions, 100154. https://lnkd.in/ds6jTUsk Together with #localplanners, we developed a scenario for a #naturebasedsolution in a European medium-sized town. Towns are a typical living space in Europe and home for about 36% of the #EU population in 2021 (Eurostat Statistics, 2023). Here, the influence of #streettrees as a nature-based solution for shading was evaluated and visualised. We estimated the increase in #shading by 49% along paths due to planting of street trees based on spatial analysis. Informed decision-making becomes evident for improved environmental quality in the urban area, especially important to include early where new development is going to take place. Potential increase in shading by 49% along paths due to planting of street trees.

The REGREEN policy briefs are complete! The last two single briefs make the REGREEN policy briefs bundle complete! 📊 Brief 5/12 is about the #CityExplorerToolkit, an online tool to help city planners make informed decisions on locating new #naturebasedsolutions. Here the standalone website: https://lnkd.in/dm6sch8 👧 👦 Brief 8/12 is about #engagingchildren in #NBS and shows the various activities of REGREEN in the broad field of education. https://lnkd.in/dpBEDMA8 👉 Here the full updated version of our policy briefs bundle: https://lnkd.in/dGNTF4Rj Laurence Jones Sally Anderson UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) Danish School of Education

🤔 In this video clip, ecologist Marc Barra from the Agence régionale de la biodiversité en Île-de-France (ARB îdF) describes how #naturebasedsolutions, #depaving and #renaturing are related and his experiences with training sessions with technicians on #NbS. 😎 The long version of REGREEN’s final video “The REGREEN Story" (8min) is available here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dUfP-CHn - Spoken language: eng - Subtitels: eng, de, es, fr, hr and mandarin