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Nature Based Solutions And Urban Resilience
Social Providing recreation facilities
Providing interaction between humans and nature
Increasing environmental awareness
The connectivity between green areas, which increa-
ses social interaction
Providing food security
Health Improving physical and mental health
Improving life quality
Reducing Health Costs
Economic Decreasing energy consumption
Reducing maintenance and repair costs of urban inf-
rastructures
Increasing new business and investment opportuni-
ties and supporting local economy
Increasing land and property values
Decreasing post-disaster expenditure
Decreasing insurance costs
Figure 3: The Benefits of Nature-based Solutions
a. Ecological Benefits
The ecological benefits of nature-based solutions include regulating water
flow and cycle, drought, water scarcity, preventing floodings and floods,
improving water, earth and air quality, biological treatment, preventing loss
of soil, mitigating disaster risk, preserving and supporting biodiversity, carbon
capture and storage, disease and pest control, Disease and pest control,
restoration of degraded land and noise reduction.
Ecosystems maintain the functions of capturing water, purifying water
through filtering, and transporting water to underground and aboveground
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