Brief me
- Nature-based solutions are multifunctional measures supporting nature while providing key functions for water management
- With nature-based solutions, we aim at enhancing the retention and natural purification of water, thus improving water availability and quality
- Restoration of whole natural habitats, such as lakes or wetlands, may be very effective and cost-efficient nature-based solutions
- Nature-based solutions with a more limited scope, but high potential effectiveness, include treatment wetlands, retention ponds, vegetated buffer strips, and managed aquifer recharge ponds
- Discover the outcomes of a JRC project in collaboration with DG ENV, analysing typologies of nature-based solutions for agricultural water management and providing criteria for their effective implementation
Maps and Infotools
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Areas compatible with the implementation of NBS
Interactive map of agricultural areas suitable to the implementation of various types of nature-based solutions
Catchments suitable for NBS
Query the interactive map to detect catchments suitable for NBS
Effectiveness of NBS at NUTS2 level
Interactive map of effectiveness of nature-based solutions - Data aggregated by NUTS2
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