Print Email Facebook Twitter ResiRiver - Mainstreaming and Upscaling Nature Based Solutions in North West European Rivers Title ResiRiver - Mainstreaming and Upscaling Nature Based Solutions in North West European Rivers Author Wilson, Stanford (Rijkswaterstaat) Rem, Nils (Rijkswaterstaat) Schielen, R.M.J. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering; Rijkswaterstaat) Snoek, Yvo (Rijkswaterstaat) Date 2024 Abstract River managers today are faced with the challenge of adapting to climate change while also having to sustainably secure all important functions in a healthy river system for society. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have proven themselves effective across a multitude of contexts; providing integrative approaches for river restoration, conservation and sustainable management, ensuring both climate change adaptation and contribute to climate change mitigation and biodiversity recovery for generations to come. NbS are multi-faceted and more importantly, they are effective when it comes to addressing complex societal challenges (e.g. reducing flood risk, increasing natural values and biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being), as they provide a novel, integrative and coherent approach. Despite the significant and rapidly growing base of scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of NbS in riverine systems management, the actual uptake and application of NbS on a larger (EU) scale is still in its early phase. From where we stand today, a major barrier to the wider uptake and application of NbS in riverine systems remains (a) our limited experience in scaling solutions beyond their local contexts (so called ‘Upscaling’), and (b) make Nbs as a standard work practice within water management organisations throughout North-West Europe (so called ‘Mainstreaming’). Also, our lack of standardised methods for quantitative assessment and monitoring of ecosystem services and benefits related to NbS hinders replication and application at a wider scale. Subject nature based solutionsassessment frameworksinternational cooperation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dc5f443d-540c-4451-9e41-529d319cd1e2 Event NCR DAYS 2024, 2024-02-28 → 2024-02-29, Gaia, Wageningen University & Research campus, Wageningen, Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type abstract Rights © 2024 Stanford Wilson, Nils Rem, R.M.J. Schielen, Yvo Snoek Files PDF ResiRiver_-_Mainstreaming ... Rivers.pdf 210.85 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:dc5f443d-540c-4451-9e41-529d319cd1e2/datastream/OBJ/view