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first_page settings Open AccessArticle Innovation in NBS Co-Design and Implementation by James M. Strout 1,*, Amy M. P. Oen 1, Bjørn G. Kalsnes 1, Anders Solheim 1, Gerd Lupp 2, Francesco Pugliese 3 [OrcID] and Séverine Bernardie 4 1 Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), 0855 Oslo, Norway 2 Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany 3 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy 4 Ground Instabilities and Erosion Risk Unit, Risks and Prevention Division, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), 3 av. Claude-Guillemin, P.B. 36009, CEDEX 02, 45060 Orléans, France * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 986; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020986 Received: 14 December 2020 / Revised: 13 January 2021 / Accepted: 15 January 2021 / Published: 19 January 2021 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Based Solutions—Concept, Evaluation, and Governance) Download PDF Browse Figures Review Reports Citation Export Abstract Impacts in the form of innovation and commercialization are essential components of publicly funded research projects. PHUSICOS ("According to nature" in Greek), an EU Horizon 2020 program (H2020) Innovation Action project, aims to demonstrate the use of nature-based solutions (NBS) to mitigate hydrometeorological hazards in rural and mountainous areas. The work program is built around key innovation actions, and each Work Package (WP) leader is specifically responsible for nurturing innovation processes, maintaining market focus, and ensuring relevance for the intended recipients of the project results. Key success criteria for PHUSICOS include up-scaling and mainstream implementation of NBS to achieve broader market access. An innovation strategy and supporting tools for implementing this within PHUSICOS has been developed and key concepts forming the basis for this strategy are presented in this research note.

In the context of global changes, nature-based solutions (NBSs) increasingly draw attention as a possible way to reduce disaster risk associated with extreme hydro-meteorological events while providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits at the same time. The PHUSICOS platform is dedicated to gather and analyse relevant NBSs used to reduce disaster risk associated with extreme hydro-meteorological events in mountainous and hilly lands. To design the platform, an in-depth review of 11 existing platforms has been performed. The PHUSICOS platform currently references 152 literature NBS cases and is continuously enriched through the contribution of NBS community. The platform also proposes a qualitative assessment of the NBSs collected according to 15 criteria related with five ambits: &ldquo, disaster risk reduction&rdquo, &ldquo, technical and economical feasibility&rdquo, environment&rdquo, society&rdquo, and &ldquo, local economy&rdquo, This paper presents the structure of the platform and a first analysis of its content.

PHUSICOS platform aims at gathering nature-based solutions (NBS) relevant to reduce hydro-geological risks in mountain landscapes. The platform can be accessed directly through a web portal It is based on an Open Source CMS website, including a filer to store documents and a map server to bring ergonomic and powerful access. Furthermore, a list of metadata has been proposed to structure the information. These metadata have provided the baseline for database content and the platform has been filed with the literature review of existing NBSs related to extreme hydro-meteorological events. In particular this review integrates existing case studies presented in existing platforms. That is why PHUSICOS platform has been built to be coherent with these platforms. Nine platforms were identified during the inventory of NBSs of interest for PHUSICOS: Oppla, Think Nature, NAIAD, The European Climate Adaptation Platform (CLIM-ADAPT), Urban Nature Atlas, Prevention Web, Adaptation Community, PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet and RECONNECT.Contribution to PHUSICOS platform is open to registered users. A questionnaire based on relevant data, necessary for the definition and identification of the NBS (metadata, to be used for searching the NBSs within the platform) has been defined to enter new entries. Next step will be the implementation of the evaluation for providing a ranking list of NBS according to a multi-criteria approach.The platform now gathers 46 entries and will be enriched all along the project, in particular with NBS that will be implemented in PHUSICOS demonstrator sites: the Serchio River Basin (Italy), the Valley of Gudbrandsdalen (Norway) and the Pyrenees (Spain-France-Andorra).The full structure of the platform and preliminary content are presented in this work.