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Is Soil and Water Bioengineering an NBS?

The review paper that explores similarities and differences on Soil and Water Bioengineering (SWB) and Nature-based Solutions (NBS) has been published in the journal “Ecological Engineering”. The work was started from the need to have a structured comparison of SWB and NBS, much needed to highlight that SWB are amenable to the concept of NBS in the context of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR). This is not only important to understand overlaps, but also when definitions are linked to legislations and funding mechanisms.

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Recent innovations in LaRiMiT - Landslide Risk mitigation toolbox – Extension of the database including also Nature-based solutions

The recent article "Recent innovations in the LaRiMiT risk mitigation tool: implementing a novel methodology for expert scoring and extending the database to include nature-based solutions", was published on the journal Landslides and presents innovations implemented in the LaRiMiT (Landslide Risk Mitigation Toolbox) webtool. These include an innovative methodology for utilising experts’ scoring of landslide risk mitigation he article "Recent innovations in the LaRiMiT risk mitigation tool: implementing a novel methodology for expert scoring and extending the database to include nature-based solutions", has been published on the journal Landslides and presents innovations implemented in the LaRiMiT (Landslide Risk Mitigation Toolbox) webtool. These include an innovative methodology for utilising experts’ scoring of landslide risk mitigation measures directly within the decision support tool, and updating of the tool’s database over structural measures to include many nature based solutions (NBS) for landslide risk mitigation.

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Tracing hotspots of soil erosion in high mountain environments: how forensic science based on plant eDNA can lead the way. An opinion.

An opinion paper that explores the combination of geographical and biological sciences to guide ecological restoration has been published in the journal “Plant & Soil". The work explores the use of plant-based eDNA fingerprinting of sediments as a tool to identify hotspots of soil erosion.

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