NBS Toolkit Images

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Core metadata

Visibility Public
Resource type Other non-spatial document

OPERANDUM metadata

Data status Raw
Main data type Other
Other data type Documents

NBS metadata

Has NBS relation False
NBS approach
  • Implementation
  • Protection
  • Restoration
  • Sustainable Management
NBS habitat
  • Coastal
  • Cropland
  • Grassland
  • Heathland and shrub
  • Marine inlets and transitional waters
  • Open Ocean
  • Rivers and Lakes
  • Shelf
  • Sparsely vegetated land
  • Urban
  • Wetlands
  • Woodland and forest
NBS hazard Flood
NBS policy level EU
NBS target
  • Air quality
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change adaptation and resilience
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Coastal resilience
  • Cultural and natural heritage
  • Cultural diversity
  • DRR, emergency and public services
  • Economic development
  • Employment including green jobs
  • Flood management
  • Green space management
  • Habitat conservation and restoration
  • Health and safety
  • Marine protection
  • Participatory governance and access to information
  • Quality of life
  • Rural regeneration and land-use
  • Social cohesion
  • Social justice and inequality
  • Soil management and soil quality
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Sustainable energy
  • Sustainable food and water
  • Urban development
  • Waste management
  • Water management, protection of water related ES and water quality
NBS type
  • Blue
  • Green
  • Hybrid (green-blue-grey)
  • Mixed (green-blue)
NBS intervention
  • Afforestation
  • Agroforestry
  • Aquifer protection
  • Beach Nourishment
  • Bioswales
  • Branch packing
  • Breakwater logs
  • Brush layering
  • Brush mattress
  • Channel diversity creation
  • Clear-cutting of trees along riverbanks
  • Clearing and restoration of sea shores
  • Conservation tillage practices
  • Construct emergency flood water storage (e.g. ponds, ditches)
  • Constructed wetlands or marginal wetlands
  • Continuous cover forestry or forest cover retention
  • Contour ditches
  • Controlled groundwater abstraction
  • Cover crops
  • Cropping management
  • Deep-rooted perennials
  • Drainage trenches or terracing
  • Dune structures
  • Dune vegetation
  • Earth bunds/walls
  • Erosion control fabric
  • Fire use restriction near forested area
  • Floodplains, floodplain reconnection with rivers
  • Forest Protection
  • Grassed waterways
  • Grazing and residue management
  • Green alleys
  • Green roofs
  • Green strips
  • Green walkways
  • Green walls/façades
  • Green-blue roofs
  • Hedges/shrubs/green fences
  • Heritage parks
  • High density planting, afforestation
  • Infiltration basins
  • Infiltration planters
  • Inorganic soil conditioners and amendments (biochar, vermiculite, etc.)
  • Intertidal habitats
  • Joint planting
  • Jute-mat logs
  • Lake creation
  • Landscape park
  • Live cribwalls
  • Live cuttings
  • Live ground anchors
  • Live pole drains
  • Live siltation
  • Live snow fences
  • Live stakes, stakes fences, palisade
  • Live wattles and inert fascines
  • Locate access channels through reefs
  • Maintain and enhance natural wetlands
  • Maintain intertidal muds/salt marshes/mangrove/seagrass beds
  • Mangrove restoration
  • Mangroves
  • Optimized forest management
  • Orchards
  • Organic matter enrichment (manure, biosolids, etc.)
  • Overland flow areas
  • Oyster/Coral Reefs
  • Perennial grasses
  • Permaculture
  • Permeable paving
  • Plant cover crops in inter-row
  • Plant mats, netting or blankets
  • Planters
  • Planting deciduous species
  • Planting floodplain or riverside
  • Planting pits or vegetative strips
  • Ponds and basins
  • Rain gardens
  • Re-introduce river sediments to coastal wetlands
  • Re-meandering of streams, river and river daylighting
  • Reduce garden paving
  • Reforestation
  • Removal of structural elements
  • Restoration of degraded water bodies
  • Revegetate bare peat
  • Riparian buffer zones
  • Riparian vegetation restoration
  • River embankment
  • Rooftop (Downspout) Disconnection
  • Rooftop rainwater harvesting
  • Root wads
  • Rooted stock
  • Salt marsh
  • Saltmarsh/seagrass
  • Sand dunes (repair and/or construction)
  • Sandscaping
  • Sedimentation ponds and pits
  • Set back estuarine defences to enhance storage (sea walls, dike), sea revetment
  • Slope revegetation
  • Space for River/Room for the river
  • Stone/earth terraces
  • Street tree(s)
  • Submerged dams or weirs
  • Subsoiler use
  • Surface wetlands (marshes)
  • Sustainable dams
  • Sustainable fertiliser use
  • Sustainable irrigation
  • Urban parks
  • Urban tree canopies
  • Use of light machinery in forestry
  • Vegetated filter strips
  • Vegetated geogrids, vegetated gabions
  • Vegetated tracks
  • Vegetation on steep slopes, margins of water courses
  • Vertical forest
  • Vineyards
  • Wet/dry grassed swales
  • Wetland restoration in areas of groundwater recharge
  • Willow sand fences
  • Windbreaks

Thematic metadata

Topic category Environment

Contact metadata

Responsible party role for described resource Resource Provider
Record created April 19, 2022, Last Updated April 21, 2022