Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management: A Primer

This primer is designed to raise awareness of the multiple benefits of nature-based solutions. solutions most useful to water resources managers (section 3); and adopts the view that: • the first point of resilience to climate change is a well-functioning ecosystem (section 4); • scaling up knowledge and action on nature-based solutions at the local level is most effective through basin water management structures that adopt an integrated approach (section 5); • protecting or restoring environment services in a water catchment reduces or delays the need for future investment in expensive infrastructure in the future; and • water management problems can often be addressed more cost-effectively and sustainably by developing nature-based solutions alone or alongside conventional infrastructural solutions.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Other Authors: Ecosystems Division
Format: Reports and Books biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:ECOSYSTEMS, WATER MANAGEMENT, FORESTS, SOILS, RIPARIAN RIGHTS, WETLANDS, NATURE CONSERVATION, NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS, RIVERS, CITIES, CLIMATE CHANGE,
Online Access:https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/32058
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