Building Resilience with Nature: Ecosystems and National Adaptation Planning Processes

Working with IISD for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Network, this analysis reviewed the 19 existing NAPs as of 2020 for the extent to which they address ecosystems and ecosystem-based adaptation in their national adaptation planning. The analysis clearly shows that countries are cognizant of the importance of ecosystems when undertaking their NAP processes but there are always areas of improvement to increase the adaptation potential and impacts for ecosystems.

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Julie Greenwalt
Building Urban Resilience to address urbanization and climate change challenges

As part of the publication Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change, this chapter is on the importance of taking community and ecosystem-focused approaches to urban resilience to address the two most pressing challenges of the 21st century: urbanization (that is unplanned and inequitable) and climate change.

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