Learning Units
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Implementing Nature-Based Solutions
This unit focuses on understanding the socio-economic impacts of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). The session covers how NBS can provide economic benefits, enhance social cohesion, and address environmental challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Students will also learn how EU-funded projects measure these impacts through frameworks like the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and SWOT analysis.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Implementing Nature-Based Solutions
This unit focuses on how Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can be successfully implemented in cities to tackle challenges such as flooding, urban heat islands, and biodiversity loss. The session also highlights community engagement, collaboration strategies, and financial models that facilitate NBS, with examples from EU-funded projects like Connecting Nature.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
Inter-sectoral collaboration and partnerships for NBS
This unit provides an understanding of how to use partnerships and collaboations to promote uptake of NBS. Provides examples of strategies for promoting partnerships, and some basic principles behind partnership development the associated advantages and disadvanatges of collaborations. It highlights how cross-sectorial collaborations can be beneficial to adopting, planning and implementing NBS.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: PPMI
Market Strategy for Nature-based Enterprise - Part I
Strategy is core to business planning and market development. In part 1 of this lesson, the nature based enterprise is guided through well-established strategic management tools (PESTLE, SWOT, TOWS Matrix) that are used to evaluate the market and analyse the internal and external environment so that strategic recommendations can be formulated and implemented. Participants will reflect and analyse on their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to evaluate the impact of market trends on their enterprise and to arrive at their own strategic recommendations.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: Horizon Nua
Market Strategy for Nature-based Enterprise - Part II
Strategy is core to business planning and market development. In part 2 of this lesson, the nature based enterprise is guided through a well-established strategic management tool (Porter's Five Forces). This tool is adapted to the NbE form of business to enable the learner to understand the competitive forces and power dynamics at play across their sector. Participants will reflect and analyse on their sectors to evaluate the impact of these forces on their enterprise and to arrive at their own actions to offset sector-level threats.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: Horizon Nua
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