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NATURE RESTORATION IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS

Project description

Valuing nature restoration for sustainable futures

Restoring nature is essential for recovering biodiversity and building resilient ecosystems. However, to translate this into successful, fair, and scalable action, it is necessary to assess the trade-offs. Bridging the gap between environmental outcomes and economic realities is important for creating equitable restoration policies. The EU-funded NatuRISE project aims to develop an integrated framework that would enable the quantification of benefits and costs. This will be achieved through the integration of ecological and socioeconomic information, modelling and AI, as well as stakeholder engagement. The findings from the study will inform the development of a decision-making tool. The overall goal is to support biodiversity, sustainable land management, and resilient communities across Europe.

Objective

The Nature Restoration Initiatives for Socio-Economic Enhancement (NatuRISE) project takes an integrated approach to get to a full valuation of nature restoration measures at the levels of EU policy makers, national authorities, and restoration implementers. It will provide a comprehensive and consistent assessment of the societal and environmental benefits and costs of nature restoration measures across sectors, actors, scales and time. Using a combination of observational and survey data, meta-analysis through newly developed LLM tools, enhanced, coupled and truly integrated models for landscape, land use and socio-economic modelling at different scales, NatuRISE will quantify the full extent of benefits and costs of nature restoration. Building on and advancing state of the art models, the project will integrate socio-economic and ecological feedbacks, human wellbeing, and equity dimensions into socio-economic modelling. Co-created with stakeholders in case studies across freshwater, forestry, and agricultural ecosystems, NatuRISE will develop a ready-to-use decision-support tool that makes restoration benefits and costs visible, traceable, and usable in business plans and policy frameworks. By 2031, NatuRISE will equip policymakers, landowners, and restoration implementers with robust evidence and tools. Through this enhanced knowledge, models and tools, NatuRISE aims to contribute to more nature-inclusive landscapes across Europe, where restoration measures have been widely implemented in ways that benefit farmers, land managers, and local communities equitably.

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2025-01

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STICHTING VU
Net EU contribution
€ 997 281,39
Address
DE BOELELAAN 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
Netherlands
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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