Nature-based Solutions
This is an online decision support system developed to select the proper nature-based solutions based on your study's area characteristics and requirements.
-Sustainable applications of NbS.
-Legal framework and adoption of solutions.
-Long-term monitoring for adaptive management.
-Standard guidelines and policy measures (penalties to pollutants, sewage tax, collect charges for public facilities).
-Building capacity of policy makers, stakeholders and different scientists (engineers, ecologists, foresters, etc.).
-Enhance agroforestry (tree-based farming).
-Organic farming practices (tunnel farming, green manure, extend harvest
rotation lengths, improve cultivation, improve animal grazing intensity and manure management),
-Replacement of chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic agro-inputs (biofertilizers, bioinoculants, etc.).
-Increase use of biochar to increase carbon storage
-Select proper species (species with excessive infiltration in steep slopes can trigger landslide events while other can trigger floods).
-Create and maintain "clean" the runoff system.
-Restoration/conservation of the degraded landscape.
-Soil erosion protection measures (e.g., bioengineering-based green gabions, wire woven check dams, hybrid eco-engineering approaches)
-Agroforestry practices.
-Tree plantation (selections of species based on local conditions).
-Plantation of proper species (grass, shrubs, herbs and climbers).
-Restoration/rehabilitation of wetlands, streams and rivers.
-Increase & protect the buffer zones (wetlands shorelines, floodplains, riparian and coastal zones).
-Increase water surface (capture rainwater for ecosystems and water table)
-In situ water quality improvement (bioremediation and phytoremediation).
-Recharge groundwater e.g. bioengineering-based check dams
-Ecofriendly tools to mitigate littering pollution (e.g. litter traps).
-Increase green spaces (rooftops, walls, resting areas).
-Treatment of wastewaters (ecofriendly households and bioremediation).
-Green filter areas for water and air.
-Rain gardens, floating gardens and heat islands.
-Storm water management, grass swales, water retention ponds and permeable pavements.
-Increase water surface in urban areas (capture rainwater, recharge groundwater).
-Increase pollinator verges and spaces
-Collaboration and participatory processes that include stakeholders from different sectors
-Training programs for integrated watershed management, nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based approaches.
-Awareness events for education of stakeholders.
-Field visits to demonstration sites of good practices.
-Stakeholders feedback on policies framework.
-Increase & protect the buffer coastal zone.
-Small ponds.
-Narrow green banks.
-Adaptive management for species plantation (grass, mangroves, creepers, salt marshes and seagrass meadows, etc).
-Sand can be used to nourish beaches at sandy coasts.
-Basalt dykes with room for water ponds
-Slabs with room for sea weeds, water plants, mussels.
-Hybrid eco-engineering