Shaping the Nordic Future: Nature and Planning

Knowledge on the Nordics

Listen to a dialogue between three environmental scientists about how nature-based solutions are used in the Nordics, their benefits and their downsides. Editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe, talks to Isabel Seifert-Dähnn, an environmental economist from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Johanna Alkan-Olsson, a Social Environmental Scientist, and Helena Hanson, an Environmental Scientist, both from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University in Sweden. All three scholars are part of S-ITUATION: Nature-Based Solutions in the Nordics.
Find out more on nordics.info.
Sound credits include Heavy Rain by lebaston100 (some changes made e.g. cutting & changes to volume) on freesound.org.

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1. Shaping the Nordic Future: Nature and Planning (00:00:00)

2. What are nature-based solutions & what are some examples? (00:02:39)

3. What is NOT a nature-based solution? (00:06:05)

4. What are the different uses of the term between countries? Isn't using nature what humans have always done? (00:09:22)

5. Are there specific characteristics to nature-based solutions in the Nordics? (00:14:57)

6. Differences between Denmark & Sweden (00:24:29)

7. Case studies from Finland & Iceland (00:27:10)

8. What are the challenges to implementing nature-based solutions? (00:28:55)

9. What are the downsides of nature-based solutions? (00:33:10)