Plan your nature-based solutions for water resources project

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Comprises the second section of four making up the Nature-based solutions for water resources handbook, explaining how to plan the implementation of nature-based solutions (NbS) for water resources. Covers: before starting, planning NbS at landscape scale, understand your site and catchment, how to map NbS potential, how to work with landowners and stakeholders, undertaking surveys, selecting the NbS option, potential funding options, modelling NbS impacts, next steps and contacting the Environment Agency.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nature-based-solutions-for-water-resources-handbook/2-plan-your-nature-based-solutions-for-water-resources-project and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 17 August 2026.

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