Increasing Infrastructure Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions (NbS)
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
April 2020
Subject
Sustainable Infrastructure;
Climate Change;
Ecosystem Service;
Disaster Risk Management;
Water Supply;
Drainage;
Green Infrastructure;
Stakeholder Engagement;
Climate Resilience;
Mangrove Ecosystems;
Nature-Based Solution
JEL code
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure • Land Reform • Land Use • Irrigation • Agriculture and Environment;
Q50 - Environmental Economics: General;
I30 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General;
Q00 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics: General: General
Category
Catalogs and Brochures
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are a cost effective way to build infrastructure resilient to a changing climate, while also delivering other societal benefits. Yet, project developers in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) have limited experience structuring these type of projects. In tackling some of these downstream challenges, the present technical guide provides a 12-step process to integrate NbS into project development. The Guidance is targeted to planners, engineers, architects, contractors and operators interested in preparing bankable climate resilient projects that incorporate NbS either as a substitute, complement or safeguard to conventional infrastructure projects.
