These guidelines on Urban Forests as Nature-Based Solutions (UF-NBS) have been written to assist individuals and organisations that have senior policy and practice responsibility for trees in various urban settings in managing these as a resource to support cost-effective restoration of the urban and peri-urban environment, including ecological connectivity, human well-being, public health, social inclusion and nature recovery. The guidelines bring together research and practice findings from Europe and China investigated through the Sino-European CLEARING HOUSE project. This project ran from 2019 to 2024 and received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 821242 and the National Key R&D Programme of China under Grant No. 2021YFE0193200.
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Davies, C., De Vreese, R., Biernacka, M., Wilkes-Allemann, J., & Živojinović, I. (2024). Guidelines for urban forests as nature-based solutions (UF-NBS). CLEARING HOUSE project. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10819220
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