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Nature-based Solutions for water risks resilience

  • Costanza Carbonari
  • Luca Solari

Urban areas face rising water risks -flooding, scarcity, and pollution- worsened by climate change and urbanization. Water security broadens management beyond floods to all water hazards. Nature-based Solutions integrate ecological and engineered systems, using hybrid blue-green infrastructure to improve resilience and sustainability.

  • Keywords:
  • Water-related risks; Risks mitigation; Integrating ecological approach in risk management,
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Costanza Carbonari

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8681-0009

Luca Solari

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9227-4305

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Titolo del capitolo

Nature-based Solutions for water risks resilience

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Costanza Carbonari, Luca Solari

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Inglese

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0966-3.09

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Anno di pubblicazione

2025

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Titolo del libro

Nature and City

Sottotitolo del libro

An Integrated Approach to Urban Biodiversity

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Roberto Bologna, Anna Lambertini, Luca Solari

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320

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2025

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© 2025 Author(s)

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0966-3

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