NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR WATER IN THE PERI-URBAN: A HANDBOOK FOR PRACTITIONERS

This is a handbook intended to provide guidance on nature-based solutions for supporting water sustainability in peri-urban areas. The reader is presented with an innovative, holistic and operational framework that has been developed through transdisciplinary processes. It also contains detailed guidelines about how to use the framework for a more holistic framing of nature-based solutions for water in the peri-urban and even other contexts. The framework may be used for designing, implementing, and also monitoring and evaluation purposes. The Handbook targets practitioners, researchers or anyone else who shares an interest in these processes.The authors would like to thank the European Commission and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS), Water Research Commission (WRC) in South Africa, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness – through the State Research Agency (MINECO–AEI) in Spain & the Research Council of Norway (RCN) for funding in the frame of the collaborative international consortium NATWIP financed under the 2018 Joint Call of the WaterWorks2017 ERA-NET Cofund. This ERA-NET is an integral part of the activities developed by the Water JPI