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Fabiola Espinoza Córdova

PhD Student

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Informing implementation of Nature-based Solutions in marine and coastal environments : the MaCoBioS Blue NBS Toolbox

Author

  • Gema Casal
  • Catarina Fonseca
  • Elena Allegri
  • Angelica Bianconi
  • Emily Boyd
  • Cindy C. Cornet
  • Silvia de Juan
  • Fabiola Espinoza Córdova
  • Elisa Furlan
  • Artur Gil
  • Torsten Krause
  • Jean Philippe Maréchal
  • Tim McCarthy
  • Ozan Özkiper
  • Géraldine Pérez
  • Hung Voung Pham
  • Callum Roberts
  • Rémy Simide
  • Christian Simeoni
  • Daisy Taylor
  • Rafaela Tiengo
  • Ewan Trégarot
  • Jéssica Uchôa
  • Bethan C. O'leary
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Summary, in English

Interconnected societal challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and food security demand immediate and coordinated action across local to global scales, guided by coherent policies and management mechanisms. Reflecting on the critical need to address societal challenges, Nature-based Solutions in marine and coastal environments, known as blue NBS, have emerged as an important part of the response strategy. Blue NBS integrate actions to protect and restore marine and coastal ecosystems while managing human impacts, embedding nature and people into decision-making through multifaceted approaches. However, blue NBS implementation trails terrestrial NBS. To effectively inform blue NBS implementation, research must produce actionable science that is relevant, timely and usable, requiring collaboration and active knowledge exchange across the science-policy-practitioner interface. Working with stakeholders, we developed the MaCoBioS Blue NBS Toolbox to begin addressing some of the barriers facing blue NBS implementation. Containing a collection of multi-disciplinary, scientifically-grounded and stakeholder-informed tools and products, the toolbox guides practitioners through different stages of blue NBS implementation. This toolbox provides an important initial set of resources to support the design and implementation of effective blue NBS and pave the way for further collaborative work to operationalise these tools in different social-ecological contexts.

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
  • LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions
  • Lund university sustainability forum
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2025-04

Language

English

Publication/Series

One Ecosystem

Volume

10

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Pensoft Publishers

Topic

  • Environmental Sciences

Keywords

  • biodiversity loss
  • climate change adaptation
  • climate change mitigation
  • coastal management
  • marine and coastal social-ecological systems

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2367-8194