Welcome to the Urban Nature Assessment Tool

Welcome to the Urban Nature Navigator

The tool helps you to assess the contributions that different nature-based solutions can make to meeting urban sustainability challenges and to identify the nature-based solutions which fit your needs the best. The assessment is based on the use of indicators that capture ecological, social and cultural benefits that nature-based solutions can make towards urban sustainability goals. We also provide methods to enable the decision processes for implementing nature-based solutions in cities.

Which level would you like to apply?

Bronze Level

Provides a snapshots a snapshot of how different nature-based solutions can contribute to addressing urban sustainability challenges. The benefits of different nature-based solutions can be explored generally or examined in more detail with the help of multiple indicators.

Silver Level

Enables the identification of the benefits and the trade-offs of different nature-based solutions together with a set of decision processes. This level is suitable for participatory processes in which diverse groups of stakeholders can prioritise urban sustainability challenges and chose one or more types of nature-based solutions.

Gold Level

Delivers a set of tools that can be used in local contexts to generate values of nature-based solutions in high resolution or across cities. The outcomes make it possible for practitioners to generate data about the specific form of urban nature initiative under consideration.

What is naturvation

NATure-based URban innoVATION is a 4-year research project, funded by the European Commission and involving 14 institutions across Europe in the fields of urban development, innovation studies, geography, ecology, environmental assessment and economics.

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