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Evaluating Nature-based Solutions for small catchments and streams: Incorporating floods, droughts and biodiversity

Year: 2025

Type: report

Abstract: Climate change is increasing extreme fluctuations in both floods and droughts worldwide, resulting also in an increased vulnerability of ecosystems already under pressure from human activities. This creates a need for increasing the climate resilience to better withstand both of these types of hydro-meteorological events using methods that also consider their impact on ecosystems at landscape scale. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for flooding, water management and droughts are therefore gaining traction as a logical option of choice as they inherently focus on creating benefits for both human use and biodiversity.

Source: Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17521833

Authors: Penning, Ellis, Wilson, Catherine, Wittmann, Christopher, Sonnino Sorisio, Guglielmo, Jones, Daniel

Institutions: Deltares, Cardiff University, Wageningen University & Research, Arup Group (United States), Arup Group (United Kingdom)

Language: English

Topic: Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Subfield: Water Science and Technology

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Life on land, Climate action, Clean water and sanitation

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission