Adjusting a nature-based solutions project
The ACT/ADJUST phase is about continuously improving and reviewing. During the ACT/ADJUST phase, the impacts of nature-based solutions interventions are quantified against the baseline and the initial objectives. This phase contributes to roadmapping, replication and upscaling activities, and identifying necessary measures to act upon the outcomes.
A summary of all key resources for the ACT/ADJUST phase can be downloaded here.
Relevant tools for this phase
Open Nature Innovation Arena
The Open Nature Innovation Arena (ONIA) is an online collaboration environment ensuring active stakeholder participation in bottom-up innovation processes and decision-making. It allows stakeholders to collectively discuss and identify issues or concerns affecting the quality of life in the city and collaborate to propose possible ideas of solution.
NBS Simulation Visualisation Tool
The NBS Simulation and Visualisation Tool is a user interface for the Systemic Decision Support Tool (SDST). The SDST allows to assess, ex-ante, the direct and indirect impacts of NBS measures (individual NBS) and strategies (suites of NBS) on urban heat and air quality, flooding and water quality, and sprawl, gentrification and real-estate valuation. Follow the link below to visit running versions from the UNaLab Front-Runner cities, or take a look at the Practitioners' User Guide for Municipalities to learn more about the set-up and use.
Co-creation Toolkit
The UNaLab Co-creation Toolkit collects a wide range of co-creation tools and methods in a user-friendly online format. It includes tools and methods suitable for the planning phase of an NBS project - when the first ideas of the innovative solutions are co-created in a real-life urban environment together with the citizens and the relevant stakeholders in the city. The tools come in a wide range of formats including games, workshops and templates.
City Performance Monitor
The City Performance Monitor (CPM) is the performance analytics and monitoring tool used by the UNaLab project cities. It increases stakeholder and citizen awareness of urban conditions through an easy-to-understand representation of the effectiveness of the nature-based solutions implemented in the city using social, environmental and economic performance indicators.
UNalab summary of lessons learned from NBS implementation
During the UNaLab project, good practices, lessons learned and information about realised and potential barriers to the adoption of nature-based solutions (NBS) have been collected. This document presents some of the lessons learned and good practises concerning the NBS implementation and the NBS monitoring and impact assessment in the three UNaLab front-runner cities Eindhoven, Tampere and Genova. Additionally, it gives pointers to other UNaLab documentation, where the reader can find more information.
