Advancing Nature-Based Solutions Part 2: Communicating the Real Value of Nature-Based Solutions
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🌿 Advancing Nature-Based Solutions Through Economic Valuation
Whether it’s large-scale watershed restoration or local green stormwater infrastructure, nature-based solutions deliver essential benefits. By translating those benefits into dollar values and other measurable metrics, practitioners can highlight the many impacts of these projects, including cost-effectiveness to make a financially grounded case for support.
This interactive two-part workshop series—hosted by the Urban Waters Learning Network, an initiative of River Network and Groundwork USA, and presented by Earth Economics—explores how ecological economics can strengthen advocacy for watershed restoration.
📅 Session 2: Communicating the Real Value of Nature-Based Solutions
Date & Time: March 18, 2–3pm ET
Building on Session 1 “Integrating Ecological Economics into Watershed Restoration Projects,” this second session focuses on tools and strategies for applying and communicating ecological economics with advocacy and evaluation outcomes in mind. The session will feature insights from Healthy Community Services.
Key Topics:
- Supporting watershed restoration projects with valuation
- Strengthening local advocacy and securing funding using valuation
- Connecting participants with free and low-cost resources project managers can use to replicate this work
🌎 Participant Takeaways
By joining this two-part series, participants will gain:
- Practical knowledge of ecological economics and valuation methods
- Strategies for applying these tools across project stages
- Insights from practitioners who have successfully integrated valuation into their work
- Access to tools, data, and resources to support community-driven projects
Recordings of the workshops will be available to all registrants, and will become available on River Network’s website at the conclusion of the series.
