S3E20 - Do Nature-Based Solutions Work? These New Case Studies Will Verify It!

with 🎙️ Silvana Di Sabatino, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Bologna, and coordinator of the OPERANDUM project.    💧 The OPERANDUM Project aims at delivering the tools and methods for the validation of Nature-Based Solutions as a way to enhance resilience in European rural and natural territories by reducing hydro-meteorological risks. What we covered: 🍏 What Open Air Laboratories are - and how they revisit the concept of Living Labs  🌱 How nature-based solutions are put to work in specific examples, and how they are monitored, evaluated and replicated 🧮 How OPERANDUM may enable and facilitate the market uptake of Blue-Green approaches by working on their business plan and replication packages 🧮 How Computational Fluid Dynamics and numeric models are a strong support to the OPERANDUM research project 🍏 How nature-based solutions are much more than the "Hippie Science" image they may convey 🍏 How important communication, pedagogy, and vulgarisation are for NBS to be widely accepted 🌱 How development stages of blue-green approaches differ from one country to another 🌱 How nature-based solutions induce a shift of paradigm, from CAPEX intensive grey approaches to OPEX intensive blue-green alternatives 🍏 The outlook on nature-based solutions, bringing all the stakeholders together, sharing an open platform, the importance of regulations... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Find the summary of this trilogy, around the #UnitedNations #Innovate4Cities Conference here: https://dww.show/innovate4cities/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/do-nature-based-solutions-work-these-new-case-studies-will-verify-it/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.