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The term nature-based solutions was put forward by practitioners in the late 2000s. At that time it was used by international organisations such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the World Bank in the context of finding new solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects by working with natural ecosystems rather than relying purely on engineering interventions.
Cecil C. Konijnendijk (born 1970) is a Dutch researcher, educator, advisor, and writer working within the fields of urban forestry and urban greening. He co-directs the Nature Based Solutions Institute [1] and is an Honorary Professor at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Forestry.
Nature Careers, containing careers news, advice, tools and jobs for scientists. A companion site to ENCODE , the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, which is a project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to identify all regions of transcription, transcription factor association, chromatin structure and histone modification in the ...
During 2018, researchers submitted over 1.8 million research papers to Elsevier-based publications. Over 20,000 editors managed the peer review and selection of these papers, resulting in the publication of more than 470,000 articles in over 2,500 journals. [6]
Katja Schenke-Layland is currently the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Tissue Engineering Part B (Mary Ann Liebert) and Executive Editor of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews [26] , as well as on the editorial boards of Matrix Biology (journal) [27] (Elsevier), Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering (Elsevier), Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine (Future ...
The emergence of the NbS concept in environmental sciences and nature conservation contexts came as international organisations, such as IUCN and the World Bank, searched for solutions to work with ecosystems rather than relying on conventional engineering interventions (such as a seawall), to adapt to and mitigate climate change effects, while ...
Bernd Gerhard Würsig (born 9 November 1948 in Barsinghausen, Germany) [2] is an educator and researcher who works mainly on aspects of behavior and behavioral ecology of whales and dolphins. [3]
ScienceDirect is a searcheable web-based bibliographic database, which provides access to full texts of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier as well of several small academic publishers. It hosts over 18 million publons from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,000 e-books.