TY - JOUR
PY - 2023//
TI - Quantifying the effects of nature-based solutions in reducing risks from hydrometeorological hazards: examples from Europe
JO - International journal of disaster risk reduction
A1 - Shah, Mohammad Aminur Rahman
A1 - Xu, Jiren
A1 - Carisi, Francesca
A1 - De Paola, Francesco
A1 - Di Sabatino, Silvana
A1 - Domeneghetti, Alessio
A1 - Gerundo, Carlo
A1 - Gonzalez-Ollauri, Alejandro
A1 - Nadim, Farrokh
A1 - Petruccelli, Natasha
A1 - Polderman, Annemarie
A1 - Pugliese, Francesco
A1 - Pulvirenti, Beatrice
A1 - Ruggieri, Paolo
A1 - Speranza, Giuseppe
A1 - Toth, Elena
A1 - Zieher, Thomas
A1 - Renaud, Fabrice G.
SP - e103771
EP - e103771
VL - 93
IS -
N2 - The combination of climate change and social and ecological factors will increase risks societies face from hydrometeorological hazards (HMH). Reducing these risks is typically achieved through the deployment of engineered (or grey) infrastructure but increasingly, nature-based solutions (NBS) are being considered. Most risk assessment frameworks do not allow capturing well the role NBS can play in addressing all components of risk, i.e., the hazard characteristics and the exposure and vulnerability of social-ecological systems. Recently, the Vulnerability and Risk assessment framework developed to allow the assessment of risks in the context of NBS implementation (VR-NBS framework) was proposed. Here, we carry out the first implementation of this framework using five case study areas in Europe which are exposed to various HMH. Our results show that we can demonstrate the effect NBS have in terms of risk reduction and that this can be achieved by using a flexible library of indicators that allows to capture the specificities of each case study hazard, social and ecological circumstances. The approach appears to be more effective for larger case study areas, but further testing is required in a broader variety of contexts. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 2212-4209
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103771
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