Abstract
The case for mainstreaming nature-based solutions into integrated catchment management in Ireland
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2020 The case for mainstreaming naturebased solutions into integrated catchment management in Ireland
Many planners and policymakers are increasingly drawing from an ecosystem approach to establish multifunctional green infrastructure for mitigating the negative and socially undesirable impacts of climate change, and this often is focussed in urban settings (e.g. Derkzen et al 2017; Gill et al 2007; Shih 2016; Royal Irish Academy Sussams et al 2015; Zolch et al 2016)
Many definitions and conceptualisations of green infrastructure exist, but the most useful in the context of this paper is a ‘strategically planned network of high quality natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features, which is designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and protect biodiversity in both rural and urban settings.’ (EU 2013, p. 8).This infers that green infrastructure has a high potential for implementing many sustainable land-use policies through the scaling out of ‘nature-based solutions’
Summary
2020 The case for mainstreaming naturebased solutions into integrated catchment management in Ireland. 8).This infers that green infrastructure has a high potential for implementing many sustainable land-use policies through the scaling out of ‘nature-based solutions’. Many definitions and conceptualisations of green infrastructure exist, but the most useful in the context of this paper is a ‘strategically planned network of high quality natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features, which is designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and protect biodiversity in both rural and urban settings.’ These solutions, which are inspired by nature and natural processes, are designed to complement engineered/technical solutions to mitigate disaster risk and the effects of climate-re-
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