Case Studies

The Agripolis case study is located within the Agripolis Campus of the University of Padua and represents an experimental nature-based solution foc

Augustenborg’s Botanical Roof Garden is a large, publicly accessible green roof complex built within the Eco-city Augustenborg regeneration in Malm

Barking Riverside piloted an ecomimicry approach to green roofs to conserve a regionally important brownfield invertebrate community, including tar

Groundwork London, with Hammersmith & Fulham Council, delivered the LIFE+ “Climate-Proofing Social Housing Landscapes” programme (2013–Sep 2016

The intensive urban development of the Bezannes joint development zone (ZAC), near Reims, has led to the artificialization of 172 hectares of land,

Domestic rainwater harvesting in Malta is the long-running Alter Aqua programme.

Urban constructions carried out by JVProjektvh which include the removal or sinking of existing curbs, lowering or adjustment of the surface, trans

In the framework of the large-scale nature conservation project "Lenzener Elbtalaue", a dyke along the river Elbe (in Germany) has been relocated.

Located in Geneva, this case describes the long-running programme of green roofs at the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG).

Since 2003 the city of Vienna supports financially the implementation of green roofs with 8-25 € per m². The maximum subsidy can be 2200 €.

Sponge Scapes case study NL 02

The project aims to secure year-round Danube Commission fairway depths of 2.5 m between Călărași and Brăila, including during low flows.

Flow-weighted sampling was performed at the inlet and outlet of one of the infiltration trenches beneath the parking lot of a supermarket in Kungsb

Fourqueux (≈4,000 inh.) requalified its centre with new housing and created the “Jardin des Eaux” to manage stormwater from ~1.7 ha.

This project is a permaculture-based regenerative agroecological farm and agritourism initiative located in Cairo Montenotte, Italy.

The Kylmäojankorpi case study represents research work where water quality (dissolved oxygen, electrical conductivity, turbidity, and temperature)

Leidsche Rijn is no longer only “under development”: the VINEX new town has largely been delivered (c. 1997–2025; ~30,000 homes).

In Veneto (Italy), floods, landslides and erosive phenomena have severely affected the region in recent years.

The Cechticky stream catchment case study is located at the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

The Kråkstadelva catchment, as case study area, is located within the Hobølelva watershed, located ca. 30km S-SE of Oslo, Norway.

The Schwarzer Schöps case study is located in the East of Germany.

On a 1.2 ha hillside near Travo (Piacenza), a privately funded permaculture retrofit in 2024 installed a contour-based water retention system to re

Installed in 2006 by Limnos Ltd., the innovative ecoremediation (ERM) system on a polluted tributary of the Glinščica combines a sedimentation pond

A rain garden was installed along the verges of a residential road in Nottingham, England.