Greening Water Risks -

Greening Water Risks

Natural Assurance Schemes
Buch | Softcover
VII, 422 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-25310-2 (ISBN)
42,79 inkl. MwSt
Confronted with an increase in floods, droughts and other natural hazards, cities and regions are at alert to find climate proof solutions that overcome the limitations of traditional grey infrastructure.Nature-based solutions are proposed as a valid way to address risk and adapt to climate change while increasing resilience through the multiple benefits they generate. However, in spite of the widespread academic and political support for NBS, their implementation lacks behind. As key barriers to implementation we find institutional and regulatory barriers, absence of clear evaluation of NBS performance, funding/financing barriers and knowledge and acceptance barriers



This open access book provides a hands-on guide to overcome these barriers, through the stepwise creation of nature-assurance schemes that operationalize the insurance value of ecosystems. At the basis thereof is an integrated biophysical, economic and social assessment which is integrated with implementation considerations through the generation of business models and blended funding and financing schemes.



This open access book is of interest to practitioners and researchers who want to better understand how to operationalize the insurance value of ecosystems. We provide 9 DEMO examples on the application of our method across different scales: urban, medium and large catchments and target both floods and droughts.

SECTION 1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMING (Lead Editor: Elena Lopez Gunn)



Chapter 1: Introduction- water security / NBS-NAS context



Chapter 2: Natural Assurance Schemes: NAS making a case for NBS for risk reduction and prevention



Chapter 3: The Assurance and the Insurance Value of Ecosystems



SECTION 2: ASSESSMENT, TOOLS AND METHODS (Lead: Philippe Le Coent)



Chapter 4: Methodologies to assess and map NBS effect



Chapter 5: Risk perception in implementation of NBS



Chapter 6: Economic assessment of NBS for water-risk reduction and co-benefits



SECTION 3: INTEGRATION PROCESSES (Lead: Nora Van Cauwenbergh)



Chapter 7: Integrated Decision Support for Adaptive Planning



Chapter 8: Business models for NBS implementation



Chapter 9: Developing an implementation strategy for hybrid water security strategies: closing the implementation gap



SECTION 4: DEMONSTRATION IN CASE STUDIES (Lead: Peter van der Keur and Laura Vay)



Large Scale



Chapter 10: ROMANIA Lower Danube Case Case Study



Chapter 11: SPAIN Medina Case Case Study



Chapter 12: UNITED KINGDOM Thames Case Case study



Medium-Scale



Chapter 13: FRANCE Brague Case Study



Chapter 14: FRANCE Lez Case Study



Chapter 15: SLOVENIA Glinscica Case Study



Small City Scale



Chapter 16: THE NETHERLANDS Rotterdam Case Study



Chapter 17: DENMARK Copenhagen Case Study



Chapter 18: POLAND Lodz Case study

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Water Security in a New World
Zusatzinfo VII, 422 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
Schlagworte Economic, biophysical and social assessment • Floods, droughts and natural hazards • natural resources • nature-based solutions • nature conservation • open access • sustainable development • urban geography and urbanism • urban planning • Water-related disaster risk reduction
ISBN-10 3-031-25310-8 / 3031253108
ISBN-13 978-3-031-25310-2 / 9783031253102
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