Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions

Building with Nature offers a proven, innovative approach to creating Nature-based Solutions for water-related infrastructure that harnesses natural forces for the benefit of the environment, the economy, and society. EcoShape is a consortium of contractors, engineering firms, research institutes, NGOs, and governmental authorities. In the past decade, it has conceptualized, implemented, and analyzed Building with Nature projects in several countries. These projects demonstrate the capacity to build Nature-based Solutions at scale so as to create sustainable flood protection and cultivate resilient, ecologically rich living and working environments. Building with Nature, therefore, is the ideal approach for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In this book, EcoShape introduces Building with Nature methodologies and outcomes. Dialogues with experts and stakeholders show there is an urgent and compelling case for further implementation. Key concepts are described, illustrated, and linked to six landscape types and their underlying ecological, economic, and social systems. This volume captures the imaginative potential of Building with Nature, and seeks to inspire readers and policy-makers across disciplines.

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Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions

Building with Nature offers a proven, innovative approach to creating Nature-based Solutions for water-related infrastructure that harnesses natural forces for the benefit of the environment, the economy, and society. EcoShape is a consortium of contractors, engineering firms, research institutes, NGOs, and governmental authorities. In the past decade, it has conceptualized, implemented, and analyzed Building with Nature projects in several countries. These projects demonstrate the capacity to build Nature-based Solutions at scale so as to create sustainable flood protection and cultivate resilient, ecologically rich living and working environments. Building with Nature, therefore, is the ideal approach for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In this book, EcoShape introduces Building with Nature methodologies and outcomes. Dialogues with experts and stakeholders show there is an urgent and compelling case for further implementation. Key concepts are described, illustrated, and linked to six landscape types and their underlying ecological, economic, and social systems. This volume captures the imaginative potential of Building with Nature, and seeks to inspire readers and policy-makers across disciplines.

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Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions

Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions

Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions

Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions

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Building with Nature offers a proven, innovative approach to creating Nature-based Solutions for water-related infrastructure that harnesses natural forces for the benefit of the environment, the economy, and society. EcoShape is a consortium of contractors, engineering firms, research institutes, NGOs, and governmental authorities. In the past decade, it has conceptualized, implemented, and analyzed Building with Nature projects in several countries. These projects demonstrate the capacity to build Nature-based Solutions at scale so as to create sustainable flood protection and cultivate resilient, ecologically rich living and working environments. Building with Nature, therefore, is the ideal approach for climate change adaptation and mitigation. In this book, EcoShape introduces Building with Nature methodologies and outcomes. Dialogues with experts and stakeholders show there is an urgent and compelling case for further implementation. Key concepts are described, illustrated, and linked to six landscape types and their underlying ecological, economic, and social systems. This volume captures the imaginative potential of Building with Nature, and seeks to inspire readers and policy-makers across disciplines.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789462085824
Publisher: nai010 Publishers
Publication date: 01/19/2021
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Introduction 8

What is Building with Nature? 14

Learning from place 20

A Sandy Coasts 35

Designing, Engineering, and Building with Nature: interview 57

B Muddy Coasts 67

Community: roundtable 89

C Lowland Lakes 107

Science: roundtable 129

D Rivers and Estuaries 139

Teamwork: roundtable 161

E Cities 179

Implementation: roundtable 201

F Ports 211

Leadership: interview 233

Enablers of Building with Nature 242

Postscript 259

Building with Nature II projects 264

Building with Nature concepts 266

Contributors 270

Photography credits 274

Colophon 280

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