Evaluating Nature-based Solutions for small catchments and streams: Incorporating floods, droughts and biodiversity

Climate change is increasing extreme fluctuations in both floods and droughts worldwide, resulting also in an increased vulnerability of ecosystems already under pressure from human activities. This creates a need for increasing the climate resilience to better withstand both of these types of hydro-meteorological events using methods that also consider their impact on ecosystems at landscape scale. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for flooding, water management and droughts are therefore gaining traction as a logical option of choice as they inherently focus on creating benefits for both human use and biodiversity.