ABSTRACT
Nature-based solutions (NbS) use nature to provide social, ecological, and economic advantages, which can aid in combating climate change and enhancing urban sustainability. However, their effectiveness is primarily dependent on execution, which is fraught with difficulties. We need a deeper knowledge of implementation being built in nature-based solutions frameworks for it to be significant in terms of producing good outcomes in cities. Biological, social, and economic issues are becoming more prevalent in cities, and as they do, they risk the endurance of metropolitan towns and the people who reside within. Such problems like persistent stressors and sudden shocks are made worse by changing climate. Ecosystem-based methods can be used in conjunction with nature-based solutions for societal issues. Nature-based solutions specifically aim to improve cities’ resilience. Establishing nature-based remedies is critical due to the variety of ecological systems, its flexibility, and the exchange among regulations as well as throughout chronological and regional dimensions. City planning may play a significant role in assisting the adoption of nature-based solutions, managing trade-offs and conflicts, and confirming that social justice elements are taken into account. This chapter proposes a paradigm for applying urban planning to the implementation of nature-based solutions, aiming at major trade-offs between temporal, geographical, functional, and societal dimensions. This emphasises the fundamental issues, also the supporting data needed to answer them, in order to justify the indulgence of nature-based remedies towards cities resilience. City planning may make a significant contribution, and there is still scope for understanding how naturally anthropocentric urban planning procedures can offer non-human nature a voice.
