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Confronted with an increase in floods, droughts and other natural hazards, cities and regions are at alert to find climate proof solutions that overcome the limitations of traditional grey infrastructure.

Nature-based solutions are proposed as a valid way to address risk and adapt to climate change while increasing resilience through the multiple benefits they generate. However, in spite of the widespread academic and political support for NBS, their implementation lacks behind. As key barriers to implementation we find institutional and regulatory barriers, absence of clear evaluation of NBS performance, funding/financing barriers and knowledge and acceptance barriers

This open access book provides a hands-on guide to overcome these barriers, through the stepwise creation of nature-assurance schemes that operationalize the insurance value of ecosystems. At the basis thereof is an integrated biophysical, economic and social assessment which is integrated with implementation considerations through the generation of business models and blended funding and financing schemes.

This open access book is of interest to practitioners and researchers who want to better understand how to operationalize the insurance value of ecosystems. We provide 9 DEMO examples on the application of our method across different scales: urban, medium and large catchments and target both floods and droughts.

Greening Water Risks: Natural Assurance Schemes

SECTION 1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMING (Lead Editor: Elena Lopez Gunn)

Chapter 1: Introduction- water security / NBS-NAS context

Chapter 2: Natural Assurance Schemes: NAS making a case for NBS for risk reduction and prevention

Chapter 3: The Assurance and the Insurance Value of Ecosystems

SECTION 2: ASSESSMENT, TOOLS AND METHODS (Lead: Philippe Le Coent)

Chapter 4: Methodologies to assess and map NBS effect

Chapter 5: Risk perception in implementation of NBS

Chapter 6: Economic assessment of NBS for water-risk reduction and co-benefits

SECTION 3: INTEGRATION PROCESSES (Lead: Nora Van Cauwenbergh)

Chapter 7: Integrated Decision Support for Adaptive Planning

Chapter 8: Business models for NBS implementation

Chapter 9: Developing an implementation strategy for hybrid water security strategies: closing the implementation gap

SECTION 4: DEMONSTRATION IN CASE STUDIES (Lead: Peter van der Keur and Laura Vay)

Large Scale

Chapter 10: ROMANIA Lower Danube Case Case Study

Chapter 11: SPAIN Medina Case Case Study

Chapter 12: UNITED KINGDOM Thames Case Case study

Medium-Scale

Chapter 13: FRANCE Brague Case Study

Chapter 14: FRANCE Lez Case Study

Chapter 15: SLOVENIA Glinscica Case Study

Small City Scale

Chapter 16: THE NETHERLANDS Rotterdam Case Study

Chapter 17: DENMARK Copenhagen Case Study

Chapter 18: POLAND Lodz Case study