Abstract Cities worldwide are facing a number of serious challenges including population growth, resource depletion, climate change, and degradation ecosystems. To cope with these challenges, the transformation our cities into sustainable systems using holistic approach is required. The pathway to this urban transition adopting concept circular economy for management. In way, resources kept reu...

•A framework to assess transformative change with NbS•Ecological and social elements underpin NbS potential•NbS can foster of social-ecological systems•Values, knowledge, community engagement, nature management The global environmental crisis demands approaches toward sustainability. Nature-based solutions (NbS) resonate strongly in science practice, but their capacity deliver has not been asse...

Climate change results in an increase of the frequency and intensity extreme hydro-meteorological risks such as floods, mudflows, landslides, avalanches rockfalls jeopardizing a great number people, settlements critical infrastructures every year [...]

In recent years, there has been a growth in scholarship on “nature-based solutions” and “natural climate to change. A variety of actors have argued that these natural solutions—variously involving the protection, conservation, restoration, management, enhancement, or imitation ecosystems—can play crucial role both mitigating adapting What is more, by virtue their label, solutions promise be par...