S3E20 - Do Nature-Based Solutions Work? These New Case Studies Will Verify It! - a podcast by Antoine Walter

with 🎙️ Silvana Di Sabatino, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Bologna, and coordinator of the OPERANDUM project.   

💧 The OPERANDUM Project aims at delivering the tools and methods for the validation of Nature-Based Solutions as a way to enhance resilience in European rural and natural territories by reducing hydro-meteorological risks.

What we covered:

🍏 What Open Air Laboratories are - and how they revisit the concept of Living Labs 

🌱 How nature-based solutions are put to work in specific examples, and how they are monitored, evaluated and replicated

🧮 How OPERANDUM may enable and facilitate the market uptake of Blue-Green approaches by working on their business plan and replication packages

🧮 How Computational Fluid Dynamics and numeric models are a strong support to the OPERANDUM research project

🍏 How nature-based solutions are much more than the "Hippie Science" image they may convey

🍏 How important communication, pedagogy, and vulgarisation are for NBS to be widely accepted

🌱 How development stages of blue-green approaches differ from one country to another

🌱 How nature-based solutions induce a shift of paradigm, from CAPEX intensive grey approaches to OPEX intensive blue-green alternatives

🍏 The outlook on nature-based solutions, bringing all the stakeholders together, sharing an open platform, the importance of regulations... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

➡️ Find the summary of this trilogy, around the #UnitedNations #Innovate4Cities Conference here: https://dww.show/innovate4cities/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/do-nature-based-solutions-work-these-new-case-studies-will-verify-it/

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