Nature-Based Solutions for Resilient Ecosystems and Societies

By Shalini Dhyani

Book Overview

1. Opportunities and advances to mainstream Nature-based Solutions in disaster risk management and climate strategy.- Part 1. Decision making tools for mainstreaming NbS.- 2. Scaling up spring revival in the Himalaya: Graduating from spring-centric to aquifer-centric nature-based solutions.- 3. Ecosystem Based Integrated and Participatory Watershed Management.- 4. Nature-based solution for balancing the food, energy and environment trilemma: Lessons from Indonesia.- 5. Wetlands as buffers for water-mediated disaster risks: Policy and Programming Opportunities in India.- 6. Landscape Character Assessment: A method to include community perspectives and ecosystem services in landuse planning.- 7. Linking NbS with Water management: A case of South Megacities.- Part 2. Evidence and examples of NbS implementation.- 8. Forest landscape restoration as a NbS strategy for achieving Bonn Challenge pledge: Lessons from India's restoration efforts.- 9. Guns and Roses- Forest Landscape Restoration as a Nature based solution in areas of armed conflict.- 10. Leveraging Conservation Benefits through Ecosystem-based Services Approach and Community Engagement in Wetland and Riparian Ecosystems -the case of conserving Black-Necked Crane and White -Bellied Heron in Bhutan.- 11. Geo-Information tools in implementing Nature based Solutions from High Altitude Wetlands: From mapping to decision making support for Disaster Risk Reduction.- 12. Promoting nature based solution (NbS) through restoration of degraded landscapes in the Indian Himalayan Region.- 13. Temporal Changes in Livelihood and Land Usage patterns: Case study of a Primitive Tribe, Van Raji, from Uttarakhand, India.- Part 3. Advanced Institutional provisions and policies for NbS.- 14. Nature based solutions for restoration of freshwater ecosystems: Indian experiences.- 15. Applicability of Nature based Solution through Green Infrastructure Approach to Enhance Green Cover in Urban Transition Scenario.- 16. Climate Adaptive Agricultural Intervention for Food, Nutritional, Health and Livelihood Security.- 17. Agroforestry as a nature based solution for reducing community dependence on forests to safeguard forests in rainfed areas of India.- 18. Trees, shrubs and herbs for slope stabilization in landslide prone areas of Eastern Himalaya.- Part IV. Insights to Research Innovations in NbS.- 19. Permeable pavements as sustainable nature-based solution for management of urban lake ecosystems.- 20. Habitat Suitability Modelling and Nature-based Solutions: An efficient combination to realise the targets of Bonn Challenge and SDGs in South Asia.- 21. Role of tropical floodplain wetlands in carbon sequestration: a case study from Barak river basin of Assam, Northeast India.- 22. Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction in Eastern Himalayan forests of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India.- 23. Nature Based Solutions Entry Points through Sectoral Policies, Strategic Instruments and Business Continuity.- 24. New Pathways for NbS to realize and achieve SDGs and post 2015 targets: Transformative Approaches in Resilience Building.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811547114
• ISBN13: 9789811547119
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 455 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"