Resources for NBS Education
NBS EduDirectory - The resource landscape of NBS Education
This repository provides a comprehensive list of available resources, including guidance, reports, tools, and services developed around education about NBS. These NBS education resources and materials were discovered through EU-funded online repositories and through desk research. It is updated annually. You can also consult it as a database on PowerBI.
Have a look at further resources repositorites of the NBS and the education communities at the NBS EduHub.
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Nature Based Solutions Research Group
Nature based solutions research group at University of Helsinki.
Topic: Land Regeneration
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English Finnish
Organisation: University of Helsinki
Nature-Based Solutions - Course
The course introduces the benefits and constraints of NBS as a means to address a number of pressing urban design challenges. The students will learn how to employ NBS through a combination of case studies and design based work.
Topic: Knowledge for Urban Transition
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: UCD Dublin (Engineering & Architecture College, Architecture, Plan & Env Pol School)
Nature-based solutions for land use transitions towards more sustainable societies (A project in the Interdisciplinary Sustainable Initiatives at NTNU)
This project consists of a researcher group and involves PhD and Master's projects. Its goal is to: 1) Develop an in-depth understanding of the complex and multi-faceted system involved in land use changes affecting biodiversity. 2) Suggest solutions for how to quantify costs of land use changes, be it biodiversity or societal costs, that provides managers, corporations and stakeholders with tools for how to assess and implement costs of land use change into planning and decision-making processes. 3) Propose solutions for how to compensate e.g. through ecosystem restoration, which will provide a roadmap for a transformation towards sustainable land use that embraces multiple SDG.
Topic: Land Regeneration
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Nature-based solutions for the ecological transition of urban-and agro-ecosystems
The university course is designed for Master students. After completion, students will be able to analyse the ecological potential of NBS to reduce the effects of climate change and disaster risks, and to identify possible solutions for different geographical and climatic macro-areas critically.
Topic: Climate Resilience
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: Universita di Parma
NBS EduWORLD Initial report on NBS in higher education
This milestone report explores the current understanding, approaches, and pedagogies of higher education in NBS, encompassing vocational, entrepreneurial, and tertiary domains.
The primary aim of the report is to summarise existing and potential needs-based education approaches at higher level to present a state of the art. This output will form the core input on which the design of educational learning units can be based. These learning units will be developed for NBS EduWORLD Work Package 4 (WP4).
Topic: Understanding of NBS
Educational Level: Higher Education
Language: English
Organisation: NBS EduWORLD
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