Methods And Approaches Developed Or Improved By NAIAD
What this list is
The methods on this page were produced by the project. They address the two problems that an assessment of a Nature Based Solution has and that the established methods do not: establishing what is delivered when the thing delivered is not sold, and establishing it in a way that the people affected accept as a description of their own situation.
The list is also the guide's own structure. Each entry corresponds to a section of the e-guide, and taken together they are the sequence the project recommends: establish what the area is and what the hazard does to it, establish what the people involved perceive and expect, assess the intervention against that, and provide the means for them to take part in doing so.
The economic assessment method
General methodological framework for the economic assessment of NBS — the framework that organises the whole assessment, from the definition of the counterfactual to the presentation of the result.
Demonstration of the insurance value of ecosystems: economic assessment at demo level — the method applied at each demonstration area, showing what the framework produces when it is carried through to a financing proposition.
Understanding the area and the hazard
Characterization of the area — the method for establishing the biophysical and socio-economic setting on a consistent basis before any assessment begins.
Hazards: risk modelling approaches — the approaches for representing rapid-onset and slow-onset hazards, including the ones for which no established damage function exists.
Tools and approaches for understanding an area — the instruments used at the characterization stage, and what each of them can and cannot establish.
Understanding the people
Problem definition, risk perception and risk management behaviour — the method for establishing what the people affected consider the problem to be, which is frequently not what the assessment assumed.
Institutional analysis — the method for establishing which bodies hold the relevant powers, what instruments they have, and where a responsibility exists without the means to discharge it.
Stakeholder engagement and public participation — the method for designing and running an engagement process that can change the proposal rather than only comment on it.
Participatory and collaborative modelling approaches — the techniques for building the model with the participants rather than presenting it to them.
Designing and using indicators to assess the efficacy (effectiveness) of NBS — the method for establishing what is measured when performance is reported.
Integrating and deciding
Integrative modelling — the method for connecting the hydrological, ecological, economic and social representations in one structure, so that a result can be traced back through them.
Multi-criteria decision-making toolkit — the apparatus for comparing options against conflicting criteria and for showing how far a recommendation depends on the weights assigned.
Adaptive planning — the approach for decisions taken under deep uncertainty, sequencing reversible decisions and identifying in advance the triggers that would change the plan.