Issue #53
Nature-Based Solutions, or NBS, are actions inspired, supported or literally copied from nature that aim to reduce human environmental impacts, make economies and communities resilient and offer new opportunities for balanced economic growth. In this issue we explore solutions to achieve goals such as increasing the sustainability of urban systems, restoring degraded ecosystems, implementing adaptive or mitigating climate change, improving risk management and implementing resilience. In collaboration with researcher Valeria Barbi.
Summary
OP-EDS
βίος
Emanuele Bompan
We are nature
Gianfranco Bologna
READING MATTER
Tree, Paper, Tree
Giorgia Marino
THINK TANK
Valuing Nature Is the Missing Ingredient. Not GDP
Interview with Partha Dasgupta
Giorgio Kaldor
A lgae, the Future from Under the Sea
Interview with Vincent Doumeizel
Emanuele Bompan
Biodiversity Is the Solution
Interview with Massimo Labra
Emanuele Bompan
Regeneration: Putting Life at the Centre
Interview with Eduard Muller
Antonella Ilaria Totaro
INSIGHT
The Importance of Definitions
Valeria Barbi
Climate Puts Seas and Coasts in Danger, but NatureWill Protect Them
Marco Merola
Nature Goes to the City
Maria Chiara Voci
Managing Water without Technology
Giorgio Kaldor
Regenerating the Soil with Forests, Peatlands,and Earthworms
Antonella Ilaria Totaro
Salvation Lies in Wilderness
Valeria Barbi
Investing in Nature: Biodiversity Credits as a ConservationTool
Lucrezia Lenardon
NbS-washing, When Solutions Turn into Problems
Simone Fant
CASE STUDIES
A Sponge Park for Water Resilience
Giorgio Kaldor
Building with Nature in the Netherlands
Antonella Ilaria Totaro
From Cherry to Cup, Lavazza Closes the Circle in the Worldof Coffee
Antonella Ilaria Totaro
3Bee, the Nature-tech Company that Surveys Biodiversity
Giorgia Marino
All the Benefits of a Bamboo Forest
Valeria Pagani
Novamont Has a New Carbon Footprint Measurement Toolfor Mater-Bi Product
Valeria Pagani
All Aboard at Ecomondo, to Accelerate the Green Transition
Emanuele Bompan
Seven Startups Join the Third Edition of the Terra NextAcceleration Programme
Antonella Ilaria Totaro
STARTUPS
By Antonella Ilaria Totaro
Eion, Permanent CO2 Removal with Enhanced Weathering
Funga, Restoring Biodiversity and Storing CO2 through Mycorrhizae
NARA Climate, Restoring Productive Ecosystems with Saltwate
NatureMetrics, Scalable Biodiversity Metrics Powered by eDNA
OUROBOROS
Nature-based Solutions Must Be a Part of the CircularEconomy’s Arsenal of Tools
Ana Birliga Sutherland
CIRCULAR BY LAW
Using Nature (Well) to Fight the Climate Crisis
Francesco Petrucci