This knowledge repository is part of ESPON ReAdapt — an applied research project supporting climate adaptation planning across ESPON territories. It brings together curated records on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) covering scientific papers, case studies, EU projects and policies from across Europe. Use it to explore evidence, find comparable cases, build an investment case, and navigate EU funding and policy alignment for NbS implementation.
Europe's climate adaptation community has a knowledge problem — not a shortage of evidence, but a fragmentation of it. Peer-reviewed research, EU-funded project reports and national policy documents rarely reach the practitioners and planners who need them most.
The ReAdapt NbS Knowledge Repository addresses this by providing a single, searchable access point to curated evidence on Nature-based Solutions from across Europe — structured to support decision-making across research, planning and implementation.
Pick your hazard, territory type and scale — the map updates and you can browse straight to matching records.
Search and filter 1,557 records by NbS type, hazard and country. The Policy Explorer covers 769 EU and national policies.
The AI assistant answers questions about evidence, funding and policy — grounded in the repository records.
Explore the evidence landscape across NbS types, climate hazards, countries and time. Use the choropleth maps to identify where evidence is concentrated — and where gaps remain. Click any country for a full evidence profile.