Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Ecosystems and Societies
Over the past few decades, the frequency and severity of natural and human-induced disasters have increased across Asia. These disasters lead to substantial loss of life, livelihoods and community assets, which not only threatens the pace of socio-economic development, but also undo hard-earned gain...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Singapore
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Disaster Resilience and Green Growth
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Table of Contents:
- 9. Guns and Roses- Forest Landscape Restoration as a Nature based solution in areas of armed conflict
- 10. Leveraging Conservation Benefits through Ecosystem–based Services Approach and Community Engagement in Wetland and Riparian Ecosystems –the case of conserving Black-Necked Crane and White -Bellied Heron in Bhutan
- 11. Geo-Information tools in implementing Nature based Solutions from High Altitude Wetlands: From mapping to decision making support for Disaster Risk Reduction
- 12. Promoting nature based solution (NbS) through restoration of degraded landscapes in the Indian Himalayan Region
- 13. Temporal Changes in Livelihood and Land Usage patterns: Case study of a Primitive Tribe, Van Raji, from Uttarakhand, India
- Part 3. Advanced Institutional provisions and policies for NbS
- 14. Nature based solutions for restoration of freshwater ecosystems: Indian experiences
- 22. Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction in Eastern Himalayan forests of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India
- 23. Nature Based Solutions Entry Points through Sectoral Policies, Strategic Instruments and BusinessContinuity
- 24. New Pathways for NbS to realize and achieve SDGs and post 2015 targets: Transformative Approaches in Resilience Building
- 1. Opportunities and advances to mainstream Nature-based Solutions in disaster risk management and climate strategy
- Part 1. Decision making tools for mainstreaming NbS
- 2. Scaling up spring revival in the Himalaya: Graduating from spring-centric to aquifer-centric nature-based solutions
- 3. Ecosystem Based Integrated and Participatory Watershed Management
- 4. Nature-based solution for balancing the food, energy and environment trilemma: Lessons from Indonesia
- 5. Wetlands as buffers for water-mediated disaster risks: Policy and Programming Opportunities in India
- 6. Landscape Character Assessment: A method to include community perspectives and ecosystem services in landuse planning
- 7. Linking NbS with Water management: A case of South Megacities
- Part 2. Evidence and examples of NbS implementation
- 8. Forest landscape restoration as a NbS strategy for achieving Bonn Challenge pledge: Lessons from India’s restoration efforts
- 15. Applicability of Nature based Solution through Green Infrastructure Approach to Enhance Green Cover in Urban Transition Scenario
- 16. Climate Adaptive Agricultural Intervention for Food, Nutritional, Health and Livelihood Security
- 17. Agroforestry as a nature based solution for reducing community dependence on forests to safeguard forests in rainfed areas of India
- 18. Trees, shrubs and herbs for slope stabilization in landslide prone areas of Eastern Himalaya
- Part IV. Insights to Research Innovations in NbS
- 19. Permeable pavements as sustainable nature-based solution for management of urban lake ecosystems
- 20. Habitat Suitability Modelling and Nature-based Solutions: An efficient combination to realise the targets of Bonn Challenge and SDGs in South Asia
- 21. Role of tropical floodplain wetlands in carbon sequestration: a case study from Barak river basin of Assam, Northeast India