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In urban microbasins, establishing blue-green infrastructure components
involving nature-based or hybrid solutions in line with local conditions, such as
rain gardens, green walls, roof gardens, rain swales, urban vegetable gardens,
urban parks increases climate resilience. Establishing a system operating in a
way similar to that of the natural system in microbasins will mitigate disaster
risks related to water and high temperatures.

6. The Relationship between Urban Resilience and Nature-based Solutions

To be prepared for the increasing and unforeseen effects of climate change
in the cities and to create sustainable cities, there is need for practices and
investments that reinforce urban systems and increase social and institutional
resilience. As urban systems are related to the nature and dependent on
natural resources, investments on nature will be the most profitable ones.
Making space for nature will make it possible to reinforce urban systems in
the cities and increase urban climate resilience (Figure 7).

NON RESILIENT CITY

RESILIENT CITY

Figure 7: Climate Resilient and Climate Nonresilient Cities
Nature-based solutions considerably decrease disaster risks and harms
caused by threats that may or may not be based on climate depending on
ongoing ecological processes (Cohen-Shacham et al, 2016). Such approaches
that support biodiversity and climate action and utilize nature and natural
processes to increase the resilience of urban systems go beyond the sectoral
boundaries and require collaboration between sectors. Creating climate
resilience helps deal with various social challenges like providing solutions to
environmental damage as well as restoring biodiversity. Moreover, it contributes
to the development of adaptation capacities for sensitive communities,
creation of recreational opportunities, improvement of ecosystem and human
health and supporting public welfare and sources of income, strengthening
cities and societies. Nature-based solutions that take nature as a solution,
that focus on human and economic development along with nature may be

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