Cell Reports Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100336 - 100336
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 178, P. 113232 - 113232
Published: March 21, 2023
Providing children with a clear understanding of climate change drivers and their mitigation is crucial for roles as future earth stewards. To achieve this, it will be necessary to reverse the declining interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics) education schools UK other countries, skills critical when designing effective solutions change. The 'Heat-Cool Initiative' was co-designed successfully implemented five primary/secondary schools, playful learning tool unleash student subjects. 103 students from two cohorts (years 5–6 7–9) participated Heat-Cool activity sessions where they used infrared cameras explore issue urban heat. Their evaluated using multi-functional quantitative assessment, including pre- post-session quizzes. Climate literacy increased by 9.4% primary school 4.5% secondary children. Analyses >2000 images taken students, categorised into 13 common themes, revealed age-related differences children's cognitive development. At age, 'self' dominated; engaged more physical environment. This novel approach demonstrated importance developing tailored technology-enhanced programmes different age cohorts, leading high capacity improving outcomes regarding Such programmes, embedded curricula nationally internationally, could become much-needed positive contribution reaching United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goals 4 (Quality Education) (Climate Action).
Language: Английский
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Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 352, P. 119903 - 119903
Published: Jan. 10, 2024
Droughts are the most expensive climate disasters as they leave long-term and chronic impacts on ecosystem, agriculture, human society. The intensity, frequency, duration of drought events have increased over years expected to worsen in future a regional planetary/global scale. Nature-based solutions (NBS) such wetland floodplain restorations, green infrastructures, rainwater harvesting, etc., highlighted effective cope with these events. While role NBS coping other disasters, floods, has been extensively studied, there lack comprehensive review targeting drought. following paper provides unique critical state-of-the-art literature individual drought-related around world, Europe, particularly Belgium, assesses differences between applied globally Flanders. An extensive was conducted systematically analyze NBS, listing type, location, status implementation, possible recommendations proposed optimize applications. Finally, comparison is made small- large-scale applications NBS. By analyzing all aspects, especially level effectiveness recommendations, insight gained into potential improvements. research indicated scientific publications, Belgium. Hence, grey also included review. Only four papers quantitative assessment regarding global level, stating positive impact groundwater recharge. In contrast, at country levels, performance not quantified. number implementations low, where landscape- or watershed-scale holistic approaches mitigation still scarce. Some successfully implemented projects only very local long realization time, two aspects that limit achieving visible larger Among many wetlands recognized highly but degraded lost despite their significant restoration potential. A common evaluation framework shall be followed, which gives policymakers clear view different investment options. Furthermore, more collaborative approach recommended globally, including stakeholder groups, specific attention communities. To conclude, should increase evidence base implementation drought-mitigating
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 3
Published: Feb. 25, 2021
SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Sustain. Cities, 25 February 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.645613
Language: Английский
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Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 210, P. 104065 - 104065
Published: Feb. 24, 2021
Language: Английский
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Journal of Hydrology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 597, P. 126179 - 126179
Published: March 12, 2021
Language: Английский
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Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 125, P. 44 - 53
Published: Sept. 6, 2021
Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help tackle climate change and advance urban sustainability by using nature to deliver social, ecological economic benefits. However, their success largely depend on implementation for which several barriers exist. For NBS be meaningful in terms of delivering positive impacts cities, we need better understanding how is embedded frameworks. The aim this paper i) understand frameworks address implementation, ii) extract synthesize key elements conditions required enabling the process. Taking a hermeneutic approach, makes use pre-understanding interpret analyse 'the whole' parts' process discuss discourse could towards more operational understanding. This suggests that multi-stakeholder collaboration co-creation knowledge are important prerequisites shared problems, developing actionable adapting site-specific societal challenges. Advancing about relevant capacity building governance at local level bridging policy areas, stakeholders needed make become broader society. research move beyond conceptual propositions principles improve enhance support NBS.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 10
Published: June 29, 2022
Momentum for sustainable and climate resilience solutions coastal protection are growing globally given the pressing need to prevent further loss of biodiversity ecosystems while meeting change adaptation mitigation goals. Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) represent an opportunity align environmental goals, at a time strained budgets in global context when short-term needs may run counter long-term In Europe, NbS fit mandates major EU policies by restoring enhancing climate-resilience carbon sequestration. Previous studies have compiled scientific evidence about hydro-meteorological hazards use NbS. However, their implementation scale is still lacking. As knowledge experience with natural increases, it becomes more important draw lessons learned insights replicating scaling up NbS, especially areas where limited compared other environments. This study analyzed case across European estuarine key lessons, understand better current status implementation, identify challenges gaps. From total 59 associated flooding, erosion loss, results show increase since 1990s, but most rapidly between 2005 2015. Most hybrid employing wetlands, predominantly located United Kingdom (UK) Netherlands. Funding largely from public sources, rarely come single or private source. Three-quarters reported monitoring activities, than half did not disclose quantitative related effectiveness against flooding and/or erosion. The improve defenses was indicated as main motivation over traditional structures, sustainability mentioned additional reason. Although variety co-benefits identified, clearer descriptions enhanced details such information required. There tools strategies expand sharing enable replication successful cases areas.
Language: Английский
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AMBIO, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 52(1), P. 45 - 53
Published: Aug. 24, 2022
Abstract Heavily featured over the last few years in global research and policy agreements, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) remain however exposed to much debate ways their current design ability achieve both environmental goals social needs. As they become mainstream climate mitigation adaptation options, capacity deliver expected benefits, especially when contemplating equity justice, is at least uncertain. Through a critical review of existing debates perspectives on NBS, this paper questions uptake points frequent embeddedness NBS speculative elite-based development paths urban rural areas. We present an alternative, justice-oriented approach so that projects can avoid nature-enable dispossession instead build nature-inspired justice prioritizes needs, identities, livelihoods most ecologically socially vulnerable residents.
Language: Английский
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Nature-Based Solutions, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 2, P. 100042 - 100042
Published: Nov. 14, 2022
More than 90 systematic reviews have been conducted on the topic of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation (NBS-CCA). These prior reviews, however, are scattered across more 45 different peer-reviewed journals and gray literature sources, making it difficult to follow all knowledge generated remaining research gaps. In this study, we a review NBS-CCA, with objective mapping analyzing these reviews. We found that most had relatively narrow focuses, typically focusing particular geographic context NBS-CCA (mainly in urban coastal areas) or aspect planning/implementation outcomes assessment policy/governance issues). Fewer focused mountainous areas social financial aspects planning/implementation. The majority relied solely analysis, only 26% including literature, despite large amount variety exists. Notably, no yet attempted comprehensively analyze contexts e.g. through meta-analysis available topic. This would likely require massive multidisciplinary effort, but could be worthy endeavor considering realized need integrate into national/subnational policies various international environmental agreements pertaining (e.g., Paris Agreement) biodiversity conservation Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework).
Language: Английский
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Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 131, P. 149 - 159
Published: Feb. 10, 2022
Climate change is affecting cities worldwide. Accordingly, are required to find sustainable solutions tackle climate change's effects, designing bottom-up policies enhance their success. The involvement of stakeholders plays a central role in the definition appropriate challenges posed by change. Nature-based (NBS) increasingly proposed adapt and mitigate adverse effects This study aims assess coherence emerging from stakeholders' perceptions urban preferred NBS them. Indeed, it considers whether departing different challenges, choices present coherent articulation between priority interventions, expected benefits. Using survey applied two Portuguese chi-squared automatic interaction detector (CHAID) algorithm, we analyse answers provided stakeholders. preferences were not significantly influenced hierarchical position institutions, city's location socioeconomic setting. Heatwaves temperature rise together with drought water scarcity identified as future Portugal. Priority well benefits, addressed. results show that may make decisions form policy, which acknowledgment interconnects related suitable
Language: Английский
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