Catalysing policy innovation for NBS
There is poor application of NBS policies in the disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation sectors. What changes are needed to help catalyse policy adoption and innovation for NBS?
Author: Kjell Hauge
Master thesis started at the Jorekstad site, Norway
The NBS measure to be implemented at the Jorekstad site in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway will be the field site for a student from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Award for Master’s thesis
Awarded! Team TUM shares honour & happiness with Laureate Dayana Ramirez Gutierrez for receiving the SRM AWARD 2019 for her Master’s thesis on Stakeholder Knowledge Mapping.
!!! NOTE !!! PHUSICOS Summer School postponed to 2021 !!
The PHUSICOS summer school this September is postponed to 04.09.2021 – 13.09.2021 (NEXT YEAR), due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Governance Innovation reports
IIASA and University of Geneva researchers described and compared the institutional, legal, social and economic drivers of three cases of nature-based solutions.
Task Force for NBS hydro-meteorological risk reduction
An EU H2020 Task Force for NBS hydro-meteorological risk reduction contributes to the UN Environment platform.
10th IALE World Congress
Participation and presentations at the IALE World Congress, July 1-5, 2019 in Milano, Italy.
Site visit to the Pyrenees
As part of PHUSICOS WP2, Idoia Aruzo and Juan Terradez from CTP organized a site visit to the proposed NBS sites in the Pyrenees on June 4 and 5.
Kaunertal outreach workshop
The PHUSICOS Concept Case in the Kaunertal, Austria organized an education and outreach workshop in a local primary school on the 14th of May 2019.
Recap of first year PHUSICOS activities and future plans
The Consortium meeting in Vienna, May 9th – 10th, coincided with the one-year mark of the PHUSICOS project and highlighted the first nature-based solutions proposals at the case study sites.