Solutions & Actions

Solutions & Actions

 

The best solutions to these challenges may depend less on current development and modern infrastructure, and more on rethinking the value of existing or restored natural resources. The Natural Solutions Toolkit explores nature-based solutions by:

  • developing hybrid approaches that link natural and built defense structures
  • managing freshwater resources in innovative ways to benefit nature, economy, and society
  • connecting freshwater resources to coastal habitats and communities
  • accounting for multiple ocean benefits provided by various ecosystems
  • reducing water treatment costs for downstream cities while protecting biodiversity, storing carbon, and improving human health and well-being in upstream watersheds
  • using water markets to incentivize water conservation and reallocate saved water back to freshwater and estuary ecosystems

 

 The scientific evidence that nature-based solutions can reduce risk while providing other benefits is growing rapidly