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Sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to reduce disaster risk and environmental degradation as a risk driver.

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Towards enhancing nature-based solutions in flood risk management in Australia: A review of their barriers, enablers, and future perspectives

This paper aims to review and synthesise the current state of knowledge on NbS for FRM in Australia, with a particular focus on identifying key barriers, enablers, and future directions.

Journal of Flood Risk Management (Wiley)
Flooding caused by dam breach affecting two houses.
Update
Building dams to protect Lismore from flooding would cost billions. Could nature do it better?

In anticipation of future flooding, Australia could combine traditional structural and flood mitigation measures, such as dams and levees, with nature-inspired designs.

Conversation Media Group, the
Training course
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Tree Value Visions
Tree Value Visions is a participatory visioning tool for integrating social values into the planning and management of urban treescapes.
  • Aberystwyth University
  • Loughborough University
  • Stockholm Environment Institute
  • University of York
  • The Open University
Research briefs
Why natural forests survive heat waves better than planted forests

A new study shows the pros and cons of different model training methods.

Eos - AGU
Three women walking in Beira, Mozambique
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Dwindling seagrass disproportionately impacts coastal women along Mozambique’s Inhambane bay

Climate change is not just threatening coastal women's incomes, but also their food security, cultural practices and social identities. Yet their voices remain largely absent from ocean governance.

World Resources Institute
Wetland
Research briefs
Calculating the costs of wetland loss

Wetlands protect communities and ecosystems from flooding. A study quantifies their financial importance.

Eos - AGU
Sahara desert in Algeria
Update
From fire to resilience: rethinking how Algeria manages its forests

In the summer of 2021, the hills of northeastern Algeria disappeared behind walls of smoke. Wildfires swept through Béjaïa, El Tarf, and Tizi Ouzou with a speed and ferocity that overwhelmed communities and firefighters alike.

World Bank, the
Research briefs
The tiny microalgae behind South Australia’s harmful algal bloom is among the most toxic ever tested

Over the past 15 months, one of the country’s worst marine environmental disasters has been unfolding in South Australia.

Conversation Media Group, the
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