TY - CHAP

T1 - Natural Solutions to Climate Change

AU - Christiansen, Kirstine Lund

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - Sustaining and enhancing the ability of nature and natural ecosystems to store carbon is an idea that has gained recognition in the challenge to combat climate change. By strengthening ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands, we may mitigate the climate crisis while also contributing to solving other ecological and social challenges. Building on nature’s carbon sequestration abilities to address socio-ecological challenges has been conceptualised under many names. One concept that has spread in some academic communities is Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) while other terms include ecosystem-based approaches and Nature-based Solutions (NbS). This entry considers these terms largely interchangeable, and draws upon literature that uses both the concepts of NCS and NbS, as well as similar terms such as nature restoration. It continues with the term ‘nature-based climate mitigation’ and focuses on initiatives and practices deployed in terrestrial ecosystems to address climate change.

AB - Sustaining and enhancing the ability of nature and natural ecosystems to store carbon is an idea that has gained recognition in the challenge to combat climate change. By strengthening ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands, we may mitigate the climate crisis while also contributing to solving other ecological and social challenges. Building on nature’s carbon sequestration abilities to address socio-ecological challenges has been conceptualised under many names. One concept that has spread in some academic communities is Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) while other terms include ecosystem-based approaches and Nature-based Solutions (NbS). This entry considers these terms largely interchangeable, and draws upon literature that uses both the concepts of NCS and NbS, as well as similar terms such as nature restoration. It continues with the term ‘nature-based climate mitigation’ and focuses on initiatives and practices deployed in terrestrial ecosystems to address climate change.

U2 - 10.4337/9781802209204.ch66

DO - 10.4337/9781802209204.ch66

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781802209198

T3 - Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences

SP - 347

EP - 351

BT - Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy

A2 - Fiorino, Daniel J.

A2 - Eisenstadt, Todd A.

A2 - Ahluwalia, Majyot Kaur

PB - Edward Elgar Publishing

ER -