This implementation guide serves as step-by-step guidance ot implement NBS in coastal areas across the globe.
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This database contains over 400 tools and resources that can help guide practitioners at various stages of the nature-based solutions project cycle. Use the filters to identify the tools and resources most useful to you.
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The Fire and Fuels Extension from FVS is a helpful tool for forest fuel management. This guidebook provides examples, stand visualizations, and outputs from the software.
Provides a detailed approach to managing forests in the urban setting.
This book describes methods for using prescribed fire as a control method for invasive plant species.
Designed to aid specialists with coral restoration, this guide describes procedures associated with asexual and sexual coral rearing techniques. The authors also weigh the trade-offs of different coral gardening methods and discuss coral fragmentation.
Provides guidance on implementing urban tree planting projects from start to finish.
A guide to help assess the urban canopy/street trees within a project area. Provides external sources to help with assessment, management, and modeling.
This tool kit provides information on developing an urban forest management plan.
Provides a more user-friendly adaptation of The Sustainable Urban Forest: A Step-by-Step Approach (Leff 2016). This is a full-service resource for all the guides, case studies, and research needed for an urban forestry project.
Overview of the process of urban tree canopy assessment, including best practices and additional resources.
This manual helps managers determine the tree planting specifications for an urban reforestation project.
This resource provides information on training opportunities within the DOI to inform invasive species management.
This resource provides information on training opportunities within the DOI to inform invasive species management.
This portal contains links to WRCS resources specific to particular regions of the United States, including assessments of structure effectiveness.
This document compiles knowledge about dam removal design, planning, and monitoring. This resource also provides case studies of successful dam removal projects and their associa.
Guide to the planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of wetland restoration and enhancement. Also includes methods for assessing wetland function based on hydrogeomorphic principles.
This report offers details regarding the use of natural and nature-based features (NNBF) to improve coastal resilience and was designed to support post-Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts under the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS). An integrative framework is offered herein that focuses on classifying NNBF, characterizing vulnerability, developing performance metrics, incorporating regional sediment management, monitoring and adaptively managing from a systems perspective, and addressing key policy challenges.
Thin layer placement is a tool used in many restoration projects to replace natural accretion processes or make microtopographic alterations. Additional topics covered include case studies, monitoring, site suitability and site surveys.
This guide covers all aspects of monitoring protocols for wetlands, including baseline data requirements and qualities to monitor for. The authors also discuss how to align monitoring operations with the goals of the project.
This guide provides details on placement and selection of appropriate types of WRCS.