How Can Nature-Based Infrastructure Improve Resilience?

Quick answer: Nature-based approaches use or restore natural processes to help manage water, flooding, erosion, heat, or other infrastructure risks. They can complement conventional engineered systems rather than automatically replace them.

What does resilience research say?

World Bank resilience research identifies nature-based solutions as one option in a broader infrastructure strategy, alongside network planning, demand management, maintenance, and redundancy.

How should a municipality evaluate them?

Effectiveness depends on the local site, the risk being addressed, lifecycle maintenance, available land, and how the approach integrates with existing engineered infrastructure.

Research basis: Stip et al. (World Bank, 2019).

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