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Nature’s ecosystems are essential for our health and wellbeing and economic activity. Working with nature is also critical to address the causes and effects of climate change.
Net zero, climate resilience, environmental degradation, flooding and food security are some of today’s big issues. Adopting an integrated approach to natural and built environments, and maximising benefits arising from living in cleaner, greener, biodiversity-rich environments, can help solve them.
Nature-based solutions are interventions that work with nature to sequester carbon, enhance biodiversity and improve resilience to the effects of extreme weather – ranging from flooding to extreme heat. Done the right way and in the right place, they can also produce a range of economic, environmental and social benefits. Water security, reduced heat stress and cleaner air, as well as healthier and more attractive environments for living, are just some of the co-benefits that nature-based solutions can provide. Examples include:
Nature-based solutions can complement or substitute for some or all of the functionality provided by traditional engineered solutions. And better than that, nature-based solutions are multifunctional, delivering diverse social and environmental as well as economic co-benefits.
We work in sectors where nature-based solutions are already being used. Our projects help to address issues such as flood management, water and air quality, erosion control and slope stability, health and wellbeing, and to deliver carbon sequestration. We use a wealth of knowledge gained on projects, using both traditional and nature-based solutions, combined with cutting edge digital tools to assess the options for nature-based solutions to meet our clients’ needs and challenges. Decision-support tools, such as Stanford University’s InVEST, enable us to weigh the benefits and support the business case, and place a value on the co-benefits, including carbon sequestration, environmental net-gain, habitat creation and social and economic outcomes.
By looking at how nature-based solutions connect with the world around them, whether that is the natural, human or built environments – what we call taking a systems view – we are better able to achieve the best overall solutions for our clients and their end users.
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