Nature-Water Design: Integrating biodiversity and water sensitive urban design

Abstract

The global rise of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) presents a key opportunity to find synergies between social and environmental objectives of urban development and to address perceived conflicts between development, biodiversity, and human wellbeing. Yet, such integrated approaches in development are still rare; solutions typically focus on a set of design and measurement objectives constrained within disciplinary boundaries. The interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and coordination of outcomes between Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), biodiversity and climate objectives remain limited. In focus-group workshops with ecology, hydrology, architecture and urban planning experts, we identifi..