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Nature-based solutions – Tools

Collection updated March 2025
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Overview

Explore tools to help in planning, implementing, and managing nature-based solutions including:

  • Decision support frameworks for choosing the right NbS response or intervention for your challenge
  • Manuals and guides on how to successfully design, implement, and manage NbS at different scales
  • Frameworks to evaluate and refine your NbS

Tools and resources in this collection are collated from Australia and internationally.

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IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions: first edition

A user-friendly framework for the verification, design and scaling up of nature-based solutions
Framework · 2020 · International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
 IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions: first edition

CoastAdapt

CoastAdapt is an information delivery and decision support framework, for anyone coastal climate change risks, and response options.
Tools · 2017 · National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
 CoastAdapt

Nature-led Community Resilience (NLCR) Toolkit

The toolkit outlines why Nature Led Community Resilience activities are effective, providing resources and stories of how others have done it.
2024 · Arthur Rylah Institute
 Nature-led Community Resilience (NLCR) Toolkit

The Australian guide to nature-based methods for reducing risk from coastal hazards

Guideline for nature-based methods specific to Australian coastal systems
Report · 2021 · NESP Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub and National Centre for Coasts and Climate
 The Australian guide to nature-based methods for reducing risk from coastal hazards

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Nature-based solutions – Investment and financing

Resources about financing and investment strategies for nature-based solutions
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Introduction to nature-based solutions

Resources to give a grounding in what NbS are and how they can be used
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