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Overview of nature-based solutions and their benefits
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Council Member Gennaro provides an overview of nature-based solutions, explaining their definition, effectiveness, and benefits compared to traditional gray infrastructure. He highlights the versatility and co-benefits of nature-based approaches in addressing environmental hazards.
- Nature-based solutions encompass ecosystem-related strategies like green infrastructure and ecosystem-based management
- These solutions can be more effective, resilient, and flexible than traditional gray infrastructure
- Nature-based approaches offer co-benefits such as improved air and water quality, increased wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities
James F. Gennaro
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While there was no universally agreed upon definition for nature based nature based nature based solutions, we're getting back to the oversight topic now, The term is often understood to encompass a range of ecosystem related strategies including ecosystem based adaptation, ecosystem based management, green infrastructure, blue dash green infrastructure, don't know what that is but I'll find out, natural infrastructure and ecosystem based disaster risk reduction.
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Research indicates that nature based solutions can be just as, if not more, effective at addressing environmental hazards than traditional grey infrastructure.
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Nature based climate adaptations can be more resilient, have lower maintenance needs, be deployed with greater flexibility, and feature co benefits like improving air and water quality, increasing, habitat for wildlife, and providing social and wrecking and recreational benefits for people as well.
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By contrast, gray infrastructure, hey, nothing wrong with gray infrastructure.
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Gray infrastructure projects can often be very expensive to install and maintain, can come with serious project permitting and funding delays, and in some instances have severe negative impacts on the environment for sometimes insufficient levels of additional protection.