Policy Roundtable on upscaling Nature-based Solutions in Italy

On January 17, 2022, OPERANDUM organized a Policy Roundtable with over a dozen regional and national experts to address the uptake of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Italy. The event took place at University of Bologna and was live...

Results – Newsletter February

Green Roof Performance in Mitigating Urban Flooding This paper defines a theoretical framework to assess the performance of the Green Roof NBS in mitigating rainfall-fed flood risk. The performance of different types of vegetation used on green roofs in runoff...

OALs news – Newsletter February

OAL-UK:  updates from Glasgow Caledonian University and Naturalea Following consultation with local stakeholders, seven NBS interventions were prioritised at the OAL-UK site, with live pole drains (willow fascines) and live ground anchors (Platipus®anchors, seeded...

GeoIKP Platform – Newsletter February

Are you a scientist, citizen, policymaker, company, association or journalist? The GeoIKP platform is now available for any type of user. With its user-customized interfaces, you will find answers to your questions regarding Nature-based Solutions.   Crowdsourcing is...

Communication & Dissemination – Newsletter February

The OAL-Greece In November 2021, the OAL Greece team has made a series of presentations both for the OAL and the OPERANDUM project. OAL GR has participated in a 2-day technical workshop of the “LIFE Urban Greening Plans Project” in Brussels on November...