Where is the nature in nature-based flood management? Biodiversity is not considered enough

Abstract

The rise of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) represents a shift toward design approaches that harness and facilitate natural processes for more holistic climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing outcomes. Biodiversity and water are considered critical foundations of ecosystem function and service provision. However, without adequate measurement of biodiversity impacts, the interventions related to NbS or ‘Nature-based Interventions’ (NbI) risk assuming biodiversity co-benefits that may be non-existent or sub-optimal. We systematically reviewed 527 publications on NbI with physical outcomes for flood management to examine if biodiversity outcomes were measured or monitored across time at micro- ..