December 6, 2024

National Ecosystem Services Partnership Offers Resources for Advancing Sustainable Approaches

Recent work focuses on nature-based solutions, natural capital accounting, natural and working lands, and more

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Duke University experts will discuss resources available from the National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) at the A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) conference Dec. 9–12 in Austin, TX.

NESP—an initiative of Duke’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability—engages more than 2,000 public and private sector stakeholders to enhance collaboration within the ecosystem services community and strengthen coordination of policy, market implementation, and research at the national level. NESP’s research, products, and regular webinars help advance innovative, sustainable approaches to managing natural resources.

Selected NESP Resources

Publications

Advancing Consistent Socio-Economic Monitoring of Coastal Ecosystem Restoration Through Collaborative Metric Development

Evidence Library for Mangrove Degradation and Recovery

Assessing the Effects of Management Activities on Biodiversity and Carbon Storage on Public and Private Lands and Waters in the United States

Challenges and Solutions to Permitting Living Shoreline Projects

Evaluation of Publicly Accessible Nature-Based Solutions Databases as Sources for Evidence of Effectiveness

Expanding Finance for Nature-Based Solutions to Achieve Climate, Environment, and Community Goals: An Introduction for Green Banks and Community Lenders

Tools & Guidance

Department of the Interior Nature-Based Solutions Roadmap. A comprehensive resource to support DOI staff, partners, and anyone interested in implementing nature-based solutions (NBS). The Roadmap includes 29 NBS strategy overviews, more than 400 case studies of NBS projects, and key considerations for NBS project development.

Online Toolkit for Natural Resource Managers. Offers a flexible, standardized, intuitive, and credible ecosystem services framework. Centered on a set of Ecosystem Services Conceptual Models, it offers an entry point for incorporating a suite of ecosystem services considerations into programs/projects in forests, coastal, or agricultural systems.

Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Services Logic Models & Socio-Economic Indicators (GEMS). Stakeholders from across the Gulf of Mexico cocreated logic models that show pathways for linking over 20 different coastal restoration project types to social and economic outcomes.

North Carolina Natural and Working Lands Action Plan. Three interactive dashboards allow users to quickly and easily quantify current and potential benefits from forests, farmlands, and wetlands in the state. Also available: a guide for states interested in developing their own action plan.

Data sets related to NESP publications and resources:

► Data used to create the pilot ecosystem accounts for the Southeast
► Projections of future coastal habitat changes due to sea level rise and associated carbon changes for six mid-Atlantic states
► Opportunity assessment for carbon and resilience benefits on natural and working lands in North Carolina