Co-Themes: Monitoring and Assessment
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can play an important role in improving urban resilience to disruptive events, but actionable plans and project implementation must be evidence-based and holistically integrate decision-making by multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary stakeholders, including those traditionally marginalized, such as low-income, informal populations and women. While there is increasing focus on NbS Design, most information on implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and evaluation is derived from experiments conducted in the Global North; there is much less experience in the Global South (particularly Southeast Asia) where climate, social, economic, technical, and habitat systems can be considerably different. Our team seeks to document and establish protocols and procedures (including Water Resource Modeling and Community Resilience assessment) that can effectively quantify the ecosystem service benefits and disbenefits of NbS in relation to community resilience. The monitoring and assessment consider multiple ecosystem services, including:
- Urban heat island mitigation
- Flood management
- Carbon sequestering
- User experience
- Gender, equity, inclusivity (GEI)
- Water quality
- Sediment quality
- Biodiversity
- Air quality
- Noise mitigation
NbCLARE
CODI green wall
CODI wetland
Geelong Town Council project