H040
Current Status of Nature Based Solutions – Evaluating the Evidence and Overcoming Barriers to Support Mainstreaming
Session ID#: 78531
Session Description:
In recent years there has been increasing interest in interventions that mimic natural processes in order to both improve the functioning of river basin systems reduce the risk of problems such as flooding, drought, diffuse pollution and loss of biodiversity. Alongside this there has been an explosion of terms describing such approaches, including Catchment Systems Engineering, Engineering with Nature, Natural Flood Management and Nature Based Solutions. However, despite notable success in getting these approaches implemented, there are numerous barriers to their adoption including: limited evidence available for their effectiveness at large scales; uncertainty about hydrological performance; and several social, institutional, legal and managerial issues. Overcoming these requires the development of innovative multi-disciplinary approaches. This session aims to review the current status of research in this area and identify those areas where the evidence base needs to be improved and best practice on how to win the argument for wider adoption.
Index Terms:
1804 Catchment [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1850 Overland flow [HYDROLOGY]
4303 Hydrological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Caspar Julian Manser Hewett, Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Conveners: Alessandro Pagano, Water Research Institute of the National Research Council, Bari, Italy, Mark Wilkinson, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Elena Lopez Gunn, ICATALIST, Madrid, Spain
Primary Liaison: Caspar Julian Manser Hewett, Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
A framework to assess the effects, cost and benefits of nature-based solutions for urban flooding mitigation. The scenario of a restored urban river in Copenhagen (492059)
Peter van der Keur1, Jacob Kidmose2, Hans Jørgen Henriksen2, Morten Ejsing Jørgensen3 and John Joyce4, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (2)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Hydrological benefits of indigenous nature-based solutions in the Andes (503994)
Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi1, Wouter Buytaert1, Javier Antiporta2, Juan Diego Bardales3, Katya Pérez2, Francisco Román2, Gena Gammie4, Bert De Bièvre5 and Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA), (1)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, United Kingdom, (2)CONDESAN Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion, Lima, Peru, (3)Superintendencia Nacional de Servicios de Saneamiento de Perú (SUNASS), Lima, Peru, (4)Forest Trends, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Fondo para la Protección del Agua - FONAG, Quito, Ecuador
Co-benefits assessment of a wetland restoration process using Causal Loop Diagrams (586464)
Raffaele Giordano1, Virginia Rosa Coletta2, Umberto Fratino2, Florentina Nanu3 and Albert Scrieciu4, (1)Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy, (2)Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, (3)BDG, Bucharest, Romania, (4)GeoEcoMar, Bucharest, Romania
Ecological Resilience in an Engineer's World: Water, Nature-Based Solutions, and Climate Adaptation (606310)
John Matthews, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Theodore Grantham, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Brian P Bledsoe, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Elena Lopez Gunn, ICATALIST, Madrid, Spain
Natural Infrastructure for Water Security in Peru : how systematic review and meta-analysis can promote the conservation and restoration of Peruvian ecosystems or ancestral practices (622205)
Vivien Bonnesoeur1, Francisco Román1, Javier Antiporta1, Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi2, Wouter Buytaert3, Bruno Locatelli4, Bram Willems5 and Veerle Vanacker6, (1)CONDESAN Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion, Lima, Peru, (2)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, United Kingdom, (4)Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia, (5)Centro de Competencia del Agua, Lima, Peru, (6)Université Catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Integrated ecosystem services-land change modeling to assess payments for hydrologic services programs in Veracruz, Mexico (624222)
Alex S Mayer1, Kelly Jones2, Heidi Asbjornsen3, David Hunt4, Sergio Miguel Lopez Ramirez5, Robert Manson6, Timothy Max Wright7 and Catherine Ashcraft3, (1)Michigan Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Conservation International, Arlington, United States, (5)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (6)Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, Xalapa, Mexico, (7)Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States
Assessing natural water retention measures using coupled hydrological models. Case study form Poland (634700)
Tomasz Okruszko1, Mikolaj Piniewski1, Dorota Mirosław-Świątek2, Paweł Marcinkowski1, Ignacy Kardel3 and Dorota Puslowska-Tyszewska4, (1)Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warszawa, Poland, (2)Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (3)Warsaw Univerity of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (4)Warsaw Institute of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
