Case Study: The Great Cape Town Water Fund
This presentation gives an overview on restoring the ecological infrastructure through invasive alien plant removal as a cost-effective and sustainable means of augmenting water for the Greater Cape Town Region.
Nature-Based Solutions in Practice and Key Considerations for Implementing at Scale
This presentation gives an overview of how NBS can achieve multiple water security objectives and how to mitigate potential challenges to investing in NBS at scale and across a watershed, particularly in terms of funding and governance models.
Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security: An Introduction
This presentation gives an overview of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban and Rural Landscapes, focusing on water security and the nexus between nature and climate.
Introduction and Training Overview
This presentation gives an overview of the Nature-Based Solutions for Urban and Rural Landscapes training program organized by the ADB Environment Group in collaboration with other sector groups and partners.
Ben Furmage
Ben is the founding CEO of Water Sensitive Cities Australia, continuing his work from his time as CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC), where he also served as the Chief Operating and Finance Officer. He leads multidisciplinary projects on water-sensitive city approaches. Before CRCWSC, Ben spent ten years on Melbourne Water’s executive team, handling water resource and sewerage system planning, regulation, customer service, public affairs, and research and development.
Lyndon DeSalvo
Lyndon works to advance NBS in cities and communities to maximize outcomes for people and nature. He leads efforts to implement and scale nature-based and green infrastructure projects that improve water quality and provide local communities with climate resilience and other co-benefits. He collaborates closely with government agencies and the water sector, including utilities, researchers, and policymakers. Lyndon is a city and environmental planner who can work at multiple scales, from watershed-wide planning to site-specific design.
Climate Resilience of Watersheds, Nepal (pages 42-45)
This article describes the project that intends to improve climate resilience in Nepal’s mountain communities with improved access to reliable water resources for communities in selected watersheds.
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