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An Engineering Manual of Practice for Nature-Based Solutions

Table of contents

  • Front Matter
  • Manual Development Process
  • Author Guidelines
  • Review Process
  • Manual of Practice
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Foundations of Project Planning
  • 3 Engagement Supporting NBS Design
  • 4 Site Assessment for Nature-based solutions
  • 5 Analysis of Nature-based solutions
  • 6 Alternative Analysis and Decision Support
  • 7 Performance-based design
  • 8 Constructability
  • 9 Project Establishment
  • 10 Asset Management
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Terminology
  • Existing NBS Manuals
  • Case Study Resources

Case Study Resources

Many practitioners like to see example projects and follow these as a template for design. These resources compile case studies into synthesis documents for use by practitioners.

  • Engineering With Nature Atlas Series
  • Engineering With Nature Innovation Handbook
  • NATURA Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-based Solutions
  • US Department of Interior NBS case studies
  • Audubon Nature Works
  • Case study platform from the Nature Based Solutions Initiative
  • Inter-American Development Bank examples from Latin America and the Caribbean (Appendix A)
  • City Adapt database for Latin America
  • National River Restoration Science Synthesis
  • International Stormwater BMP Database
  • Duke’s NBS Financing case study database
  • Nature-based infrastructure global resource centre’s database
  • ICSI’s Climate Resilient Infrastructure case studies
  • UK Catchment Planning Programme
  • Naturally Resilient Communities
Existing NBS Manuals

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