Business & Investors - GeoIKP User Guide

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Last updated: Dec 14, 2022
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The GeoIKP Platform

What does GeoIKP mean?

GeoIKP stands for Geospatial Information Knowledge Platform and serves as a hub for sharing knowledge on Nature-based Solutions (NBS).

What are Nature-based Solutions?

Nature-based Solutions are solutions inspired and supported by nature, which are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience.

Who is behind the GeoIKP?

The GeoIKP was developed within the H2020 OPERANDUM project.

Before you start exploring

What does this platform have to offer?

On the GeoIKP, you can

→ discover NBS case studies for replication, and

→ get evidence on NBS and their effectiveness, and

→ network with other NBS expert organisations. 

As part of the OPERANDUM project, different Nature-based Solutions are being studied in so-called Open-air Laboratories (OALs). The research of these is primarily focusing on assessing how effective the Nature-based Solutions are in reducing specific hazards (e.g., flood) but also their additional benefits. Explore our OALs in more detail in Best Practice.

Go to the Interactive Map and analyze an area of your interest. You can use the layers available in the Interactive Map (and Data Catalogue) and/or upload your own layers. The Interactive Map includes some basic GIS functionalities to support your analysis.

 

Register & Sign-in

Do I need to register and log in to use the platform?

Actually, you don’t need to! But you can get more benefits and features when you do! For example, you can review your added content. It’s getting complicated? First start browsing the platform and think about registering later!

 

If you decide to register, simply click on the button in the top right corner and sign up:

Step 1: Sign up

Enter your details and click on the ‘Register’ button.

 

 

Step 2: Sign in

Log in with your email address and password

 

 

Case Study Collection

Browse Nature-based Solutions around the world!

 

Where do all these Nature-based Solution case studies come from?

The case studies are all crowdsourced - meaning that any user can add case studies to the Case Study Collection! Are you aware of any Nature-based Solutions in your area? You can add them to the catalogue by using the tool: Contribute → Add your NBS project.

How do you make sure the case studies are of good quality?

All entered Nature-based Solutions are reviewed by OPERANDUM experts. You can see in the top right corner of each solution whether they are reviewed or pending review (see image below).

 

 

Search and filter the Nature-based Solutions for your needs!

You can search from the map or by setting filters:

 

Search by filters:

After clicking on ‘filters’, a blue search bar offers to search for and filter Nature-based Solutions:

1. Type your keywords in the search field or select filters for a specific Nature-based Solution Type or Hazard (if you click on the two arrows, you will get more filter options).

2. Select your choice and press the search button.

3. The results will be shown on the map and listed underneath the map. 

What do these filters mean?

→ Hazard: hydrometeorological hazards (e.g., flood & drought).

→ Ecosystem: local landscapes (e.g., forest).

→ NBS Type: the NBS intervention/measure (e.g., green roofs).

→ Approach: the degree of changing existing habitats (e.g., implementation, management, restoration).

 

Best Practices

What are Best Practices?

Best Practices are selected esxamples from Nature-based Solutions that were tested in projects. Here, you can find more detailed information location, problems, and how Nature-based Solutions are implemented to solve these problems.

Add your NBS project

Do you know any existing Nature-based Solutions?

Yes, then share it with the community by adding it to the Case Study Collection:

Go step-by-step through this form (image below) and fill as much information as you know. Fields marked with an * are mandatory to be filled.

Note: You can add Nature-based Solutions without being logged in on the platform. However, only if you register aand are logged in, you can edit your added Nature-based Solutions after saving.

 

 

 

 

Interactive Map

Analyse the area for NBS suitability?

This interactive map offers you a lot of maps to explore! Compare different maps to see whether the are is suitable for your Nature-based Solution. Below you can see the main functions of this interactive map:

 

Policy Catalogue

Are you looking for policies related to flooding? Or other policies?

Here, you can browse more than 2000 policy documents (mainly from Europe)! To find policies faster, you can search by country, by key word, or set filters:

 

Permitting Paths

What is a permitting path?

A Permitting Path is a path from planning a Nature-based Solution and reviewing all policies and legislations that need to be taken into account until the official permission to implement the planned Nature-based Solution. 

What does this tool offer?

We have analysed different permitting paths from Nature-based Solutions in Europe and summarised them in a more general permitting path. The permitting path is always different depending on the country, Nature-based Solutions, etc. but you here we have summarised the main policies that you might need to consider for your Nature-based Solution project. Main policies can be related to:

→ Environmental legislation

→ Hazard and ecosystem legislation

→ Administrative legislation

→ Building & Landscape legislation

Check out how a permitting path could look like?

Simply select an OPERANDUM case study (so-called OAL) from the drop-down menu and browse through the different legislations:

 

Business Networking

Are you looking for potential partners for your next Nature-based Solution project?

This tool will help you identify future partners and also funding opportunities!

 

 

 

NBS Toolkit

What does this toolkit offer?

This NBS Toolkit suggests you Nature-based Solutions that could be suitable for your area.

These 5 steps (image below) will guide you through the NBS Toolkit. You can always go back by clicking on the buttons.

Step 1 (criteria):

All you need to do is to set the 'criteria':

1. select one hazard

2. an area of your interest, and

3. click ‘Analysis’

Step 2 (interventions):

After clicking on Analysis, you will a list of suitable solutions. Here, you can either

1. make a quick check of the NBS,

2. check the NBS in more detail, or

3. compare an NBS with other NBS.

 

Step 3 (compare):

You have selected 2 to 5 Nature-based Solutions? Compare them by clicking on the compare button (see image below) which appears in the middle at the bottom of the page after adding at least one Nature-based Solution to compare.

After clicking on this orange button, you will get to a page where you can see all selected Nature-based Solutions.

Step 4 (future):

This step is still under development and will be available soon.

Step 5 (co-creation):

Now, you have selected one or more Nature-based Solutions which could be suitable for your area and you have explored how the hazard might change in the future (Step 4); thus, the final step is to actually start designing and planning the solution. In this co-creation step, you can explore furture steps to do to get started with your Nature-based Solution project.

Data Catalogue

Browse, store, and share NBS related datasets:

 

Your Feedback

You wish to share some thoughts with us?

Send us an email: info[at]kajoservices.com