Learning Units
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Harnessing Natural Processes for Climate Change Mitigation
This unit introduces Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and their role in climate change mitigation, focusing on how they help to sequester carbon, reduce urban heat islands, and improve biodiversity. It examines key EU-funded projects like Urban GreenUP and ReGREEEN to illustrate the practical application of NBS in transforming urban environments and enhancing resilience against climate-related challenges.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
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
Introducing UbN for learning on wastewater treatment NBS
Join and explore the topic of NBS for wastewater treatment and its benefits for a more sustainable wastewater management, including wastewater treatment and reuse at the source, as well as increased greening and biodiversity, and engage in a multi-stakeholder discussion for identifying common regulatory, governamental and financial barriers and ways to overcome them for the mainstreaming of cross-collaborative frameworks and co-design of these solutions in the learners individual settings.
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Educational Level: Professional
Language: English
Organisation: ICLEI
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