Research-based Assessment of Integrated approaches to Nature-based SOLUTIONS
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 1/1/2019
- End date
- 12/31/2022
- Budget
- 467,400 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPIWATER - Water challenges for a changing world | Grant | - | - | 467,399 EUR |
Abstract
The RainSolutions goal is to develop an integrated framework of methodologies to assess NBS for restoration and rehabilitation of urban water resources. The main objectives include identification of stakeholders and urban ecosystem needs, review of the existing good practices, simulation of the climate variability impact using pilot installations, development of the indicator system for NBS evaluation, ecosystem services mapping, creation of NBS planning and design framework and dissemination of the self-sustainable web-based framework. Oslo Metropolitan University main activities mainly cover developing and disseminating self-sustainable web-based framework. For this purpose the RainSolution tool concept was developed. The tool will utilize cloud technologies including machine learning (semantic search) for easy knowledge building and sharing. The new idea of knowledge building based on users stories was proposed. Each story contains reference data (articles, books, pictures, metadata etc.). Microsoft Academic is a known public semantic search webpage, which uses stories to find best matched search results. User receives knowledge from knowledge producer enhanced by the most up-to-date and relevant data from MS Academic. For this purpose collaboration with Microsoft was established. The tool will not compete with established search engines. Its purpose is to extend their functionalities. The potential users for the NBS planning come from academia, urban planning and/or R&D area, where structured and standardized methods for knowledge transfer are hard to apply due to dynamically changing environment. Firstly, platform will be used for water industry, however it is aimed to be flexible enough to be applied to another branches. Currently the tool is under development and will be released by the end of 2021.