Learning Units
The NBS EduWORLD Learning Units page offers a comprehensive resource for higher education, with 50 curated learning units designed to bridge the gap between Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and higher education (UG, PG, PhD). These units cater to third-level, entrepreneurial, and vocational education, providing insights into NBS concepts, educational frameworks, and real-world case studies from NBS EduWORLD demonstrator sites. Ideal for students and educators, the platform offers flexible, editable resources that support NBS integration into academic and professional development.
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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
Nature-Based Solutions and Nature-Based Thinking
As urban communities face immense environmental challenges, NBS in isolation is not generating traction on its own. Nature-Based Thinking (NBT) is enabling a change in mindset for key stakeholders, shifting from a solutionist approach to a systemic one involving multiple interventions and engagement by partners and NBS. This Learning Unit introduces the concept of NBT, how it involves communities, institutions/organisations and nature/ecological processes to reconceptualise human-nature-organisational relationships. It challenges learners to reflect on how communities can relate in new ways to nature, new modes of governing and taking long-term, sustainable management of NBS.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
NBS for Disaster Management and Resilience in Coastal Communities
This learning unit situates NBS in the context of disaster mitigation, management and the resilience of coastal communities. Learners can critically consider the role of NBS for flooding, coastal erosion and other coastal challenges due to climate change. The critical role of women in disaster mitigation, response and recovery offer a platform for analyzing these concepts.
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Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: TCD
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