Nature-Based Solutions

Nature-Based Solutions is a home to research of nature-based solutions (NBS), to both broaden and deepen scientific knowledge on NBS and advance its adoption, synthesis, and application to address critical societal challenges at multiple scales. NBS utilize nature and/or ecological processes to strengthen a system's capacity to deal with multiple and interconnected challenges. NBS represent a holistic approach to climate change adaptation and resilience building, with equal reliance upon social, environmental, and economic pillars.

Nature-Based Solutions aims to support NBS mainstreaming through the generation of an increasingly detailed knowledge base on NBS (co-)design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of performance, impact and cost-effectiveness, and adaptive management of NBS. This knowledge is intended to inform the further development of policy instruments related to topics including:

• climate change adaptation

• biodiversity enhancement

• disaster risk reduction

• natural resource management

• sustainable agricultural practices

• sustainable land use planning and urban development

• reduced greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution mitigation

• circular economy

The journal publishes full-length research papers, reviews, policy analyses, perspective articles, short communications and case studies that build the evidence base on NBS through in-depth investigation of local and regional use cases and support the integration of NBS within multi-level, evidence-based policy instruments. Replication, up-scaling and out-scaling investigations are also considered. Contributors must explicitly identify how their research addresses at least two of the three pillars (social, environmental, economic) of NBS in their papers' Highlights.