Social-ecological systems underpinning nature-based solutions (NbS) must be resilient to
changing conditions if NbS are to contribute to long-term climate change adaptation. We …

Urban areas are expanding due to rural-urban migration and due to population increases.
Their resilience is being challenged due to socio-political consequences of increasingly …

Nature‐based solutions (NbS) to climate change currently have considerable political
traction. However, national intentions to deploy NbS have yet to be fully translated into …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

In the face of major shifts in temperature and precipitation, some conventional strategies that
help people to cope or incrementally adapt to climate change may become inappropriate in …

In this paper, we reflect on the implications for science, policy and practice of the recently
introduced concept of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), with a focus on the European context …

The case for action on climate change with urgency and at scale rests on the immense
magnitude of climate risk, the very rapid emissions reductions which are necessary, and that …

The current narrow focus on afforestation in climate policy runs the risk of compromising
long-term carbon storage, human adaptation and efforts to preserve biodiversity. An …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Positive relationships between biodiversity and urban ecosystem services (UES) are widely
implied within both the scientific and policy literatures, along with the tacit suggestion that …