Nature–Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities – A Framework Approach for Planning and Evaluation

There is growing recognition and awareness that nature can help provide viable solutions to reduce vulnerability and generate value deploying the properties of ecosystems and the services they provide. Investing in nature can lead to substantial environmental, social and economic benefits by reducing pollution, decreasing energy costs, improving health and well-being and increasing resilience to climate change and natural disasters.

Nature-Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities makes a clear case of performances, impacts, and benefits generated by NBS in cities providing a comprehensive framework approach to understand the real and full potential of NBS at the urban level taking into account several aspects, from design and planning to socio-economic evaluation and financial issues. Given the multifunctionality of NBS, the book collects contributions from several international experts ensuring the interaction between different disciplines contributing to enrich and to disseminate knowledge about NBS.

Edoardo Croci is Director of the Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab at Bocconi University, Milan, where he is also a member of the Managing Committee and Senior Research Fellow of GREEN research center. He is Professor of practice at Bocconi University, where he teaches courses on environmental economics and climate policy. He is former Councilor for Mobility and the Environment of Milan Municipality and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency of Lombardy Region.

Benedetta Lucchitta  is Researcher at GREEN research center and at the Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab of Bocconi University. Her research is focused on ecosystem services assessment, nature-based solutions, and climate change adaptation and mitigation policies at the urban level. She holds an MSc in Planning and policies for cities and the environment and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning and policies at IUAV University.