Nudge Policy Integration

Nudge Policy Integration

Integrating NbS into urban policy ensures they become essential parts of city infrastructure. Key action areas include cross-policy integration, aligning conservation goals with plans, and strengthening institutional capacity through tools, training, and multi-level collaboration. This approach helps mainstream NbS across sectors and scales, enabling cities to respond more effectively to climate and ecological challenges.
Develop Ecological Health Matrix

Develop Ecological Health Matrix

Assessing ecological health ensures that interventions not only address climate risks but also enhance local ecosystems and biodiversity.
The Ecological Health Matrix is developed as a practical tool to evaluate site conditions before and after NbS implementation. Using indicators like vegetation cover, soil quality, and biodiversity presence, the matrix helps cities track improvements and guide decision-making.

Develop Planning and Management Guideline

Develop Planning and Management Guideline

Effective planning and management help align environmental objectives with local development priorities, ensure long-term sustainability, and enable replicability across diverse contexts.
The development of planning and management guidelines is rooted in real-world case studies and consultations with city stakeholders. The process involved mapping local risks, identifying suitable NbS interventions, and co-creating frameworks with urban planners and community representatives.
Different Scales,Unified Goals

Different Scales,Unified Goals

The solutions can work at different scales, with some focused on direct implementation and others on policies that support these measures.
Integrate With Grey Infrastructure

Integrate With Grey Infrastructure

The possible solutions must be combined with the existing grey infrastructure to maximize benefits. The combination of NnS with grey infrastructure is powerful since the existing grey infrastructure can offer the ability to make rapid changes. For example, an 11-acre rooftop park in Bangkok’s commercial district directs runoff into a retention system, reducing pressure on underground drainage and sewer systems.
Build Together With Community

Build Together With Community

Community involvement is essential in local projects as it fosters a sense of ownership, ensures local relevance, and enhances the effectiveness of solutions.
For example, the Salinity Mitigation project in Janagarh, the actual implementation of the project was carried out by the community people and ACF. The villagers contributed to the project in various ways — they offered free labor, gave away tracts of their land, and in some cases even collected money as community contribution towards the project.
Combination In Action

Combination In Action

A combination of solutions allows addressing multiple challenges simultaneously while maximizing benefits. For instance, Lal Bagh Botanical garden is a project which includes various nature-based solutions like peculation pit, lake restoration and rain garden. This holistic approach ensured solutions are adaptable to various contexts, therefore made them more resilient.
Indigenous Practices

Indigenous Practices

Indigenous practices hold valuable insights that have evolved over centuries to suit the local climate and cultural context. These traditional techniques often incorporate sustainable materials, passive cooling strategies, and community-driven approaches. By identifying and integrating such practices into modern design, we can create solutions that are not only innovative but also rooted in local wisdom.
Impact of the Projects

Impact of the Projects

The impact of a project varies significantly depending on the specific context in which it is implemented. Factors such as geographic location, environmental conditions, social dynamics, and
economic circumstances all influence how a project affects its surroundings. Additionally, most sustainable solutions are interconnected, meaning that one well-designed intervention can address multiple climate-related challenges simultaneously

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The collaboration is between national institute of urban affair, climate center of cities and WWF. The collaboration is between national institute of urban affair, climate center of cities and WWF.

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