External studies
About External Studies
External Studies is a collection of external research, analyses, and reference materials related to the core ideas behind the GINA project.
This section serves as a knowledge base — bringing together context, inspiration, and supporting resources that help better understand the project's direction.
Please note that the materials presented here are not directly part of the project or its original research.
STUDIES
2026-07-15
Nature-based solutions insights - The Economics of Safeguarding Communities with Nature
In 2024, an international team of scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and...
STUDIES
2026-07-06
Nature-based solutions insights - Turning polluted urban soils into climate solutions
In 2025, scientists from the University of Turin (Italy) and the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation in Puławy (Poland) reviewed how Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) can heal...
STUDIES
2026-06-30
Nature-based solutions insights - When Nature Leads, Ecosystems Recover
In 2018, researchers led by Saskia Keesstra conducted a global review across case studies in Spain, Slovenia, Iceland, Ethiopia, and Sweden, and found something powerful:...
STUDIES
2026-06-22
Nature-based solutions insights - Five silent drivers of nature loss
In 2021, scientists working with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), reported globally...
STUDIES
2026-06-15
Nature-based solutions insights - Who Pays for Urban Nature?
In 2024, Biasin et al. conducted a global systematic literature review (109 studies) published in Nature-Based Solutions, exploring how urban Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are financed and why...
STUDIES
2026-06-08
Nature-based solutions insights - Urban trees and wind canyons
Researchers from Firat University conducted a 2016 study in Elaziğ, Turkey, using advanced simulations to explore how trees influence...
STUDIES
2026-06-01
Nature-based solutions insights - A planet under pressure
In 2001–2005, over 1,300 scientists from 95 countries, working under the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, examined ecosystems across the globe and what they found was...
STUDIES
2026-05-25
Nature-based solutions insights - Climate change is changing Europe's food supply
The European Environment Agency (EEA) study, published in 2021 and conducted across Europe and global trade networks, found that climate change is quietly but powerfully reshaping how...
STUDIES
2026-05-11
Nature-based solutions insights - Madrid, Amsterdam, and Milan are among cities that listen
Conducted by Climate KIC and presented on 20 October 2020 during the EU Week of Regions and Cities, a study explored how cities...
