The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services

S Keesstra, J Nunes, A Novara, D Finger… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services-goods and
resources-ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to …

[HTML][HTML] Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A systematic literature review and a proposal for facilitating urban transitions

C Adams, N Frantzeskaki, M Moglia - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions are gaining prominence in urban sustainability discourses,
especially in climate adaptation, in efforts to increase resilience, and as a means of …

Interdependent infrastructure as linked social, ecological, and technological systems (SETSs) to address lock‐in and enhance resilience

SA Markolf, MV Chester, DA Eisenberg… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change)
has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to …

Urbanization and Increasing flood risk in the Northern Coast of Central Java—Indonesia: An assessment towards better land use policy and flood management

W Handayani, UE Chigbu, I Rudiarto, IHS Putri - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study explores urbanization and flood events in the northern coast of Central Java with
river basin as its unit of analysis. Two types of analysis were applied (ie, spatial data and …

A review of the flood management: from flood control to flood resilience

L Wang, S Cui, Y Li, H Huang, B Manandhar… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Climate change and socioeconomic developments are increasing the frequency and
severity of floods. Flood management is widely recognized as an effective way to reduce the …

[HTML][HTML] Freshwater fish biodiversity restoration in floodplain rivers requires connectivity and habitat heterogeneity at multiple spatial scales

T Stoffers, AD Buijse, GW Geerling, LH Jans… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
With a sixth mass extinction looming and freshwater biodiversity declining at unprecedented
rates, evaluating ecological efficacy of river restoration efforts is critical in combatting global …

Is adaptation success a flawed concept?

L Dilling, A Prakash, Z Zommers, F Ahmad… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
The Paris Agreement established a global goal on adaptation and invites parties to review
the effectiveness of adaptation actions. However, the measurement of adaptation success …

Multifunctional floodplain management and biodiversity effects: a knowledge synthesis for six European countries

S Schindler, FH O'Neill, M Biró, C Damm… - Biodiversity and …, 2016 - Springer
Floodplain ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots and supply multiple ecosystem services. At
the same time they are often prone to human pressures that increasingly impact their …

Implementing pre-emptive managed retreat: constraints and novel insights

J Lawrence, J Boston, R Bell, S Olufson, R Kool… - Current Climate Change …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Managed retreat will be inevitable where other adaptation
options, such as protective structures or building restrictions, provide only temporary respite …

Sea-level-rise-induced threats depend on the size of tide-influenced estuaries worldwide

JRFW Leuven, HJ Pierik, M Vegt, TJ Bouma… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
The effects of sea-level rise on the future morphological functioning of estuaries are largely
unknown because tidal amplitudes will change due to combined deepening of the estuary …