Natural Solutions Toolkit: Geospatial Decision Support Tool and Web Apps to Catalyze Conservation
The Nature Conservancy’s Natural Solutions Toolkit is a geospatial decision‑support platform and suite of web apps that accelerate conservation and climate adaptation across coastal, floodplain, freshwater, land, and ocean environments worldwide.
Subject Tags
- Climate risks
- Climate resilience
- Natural climate solutions
Summary
Technology accelerates everything it is applied to. It holds the promise to propel conservation solutions so that they scale to global environmental challenges. The Nature Conservancy (TNC), along with global, regional and local partners, have developed the Natural Solutions Toolkit—a mapping tool platform and a suite of web apps across coastal, floodplain, freshwater, land and ocean environments. The first program to be established within the Toolkit was Coastal Resilience, which began in 2007; it now represents the largest geospatial decision support system for conservation and climate adaptation at TNC.