How NatuRISE aims to make a difference
NatuRISE is designed not only to generate new knowledge, but to help turn that knowledge into better-informed, more equitable and more effective nature restoration decisions.
We connect research and evidence with the people and organisations who can use them — from policymakers and public authorities to land managers, researchers and civil society.
Results need to reach the right users, be understood and trusted, and be applicable to real-world decisions
Evidence · Data · Models · Tools · Assessments · Recommendations
Policymakers · Public authorities · Researchers · Practitioners · Land managers · Civil society
Assess · Compare · Plan · Inform policy · Implement · Research · Learn
Better decisions · Stronger evidence · Greater capacity · More visible trade-offs · More equitable restoration choices
More effective and better-informed implementation of nature restoration
The pathway is iterative rather than linear. Stakeholder engagement, feedback, testing and collaboration can improve the results themselves, while experience from their use can generate new knowledge and opportunities for further application.
A NatuRISE result creates the potential for impact when it is accessible, understood, taken up and used. Here are some examples:
→ Researchers and policymakers
→ Used to assess restoration options
→ More comprehensive understanding of restoration impacts
→ Public authorities and restoration practitioners
→ Used to compare measures, locations and impacts
→ Better-informed restoration decisions
→ Policymakers and stakeholders
→ Used to understand who gains, who bears costs and where
→ More equitable restoration choices
→ EU and national policymakers
→ Used in policy development and implementation
→ Stronger policy coherence and more effective implementation
Four impact areas, supported by a cross-cutting capacity-building pathway
NatuRISE will provide policymakers and public authorities with integrated evidence on the benefits, costs and distributional effects of nature restoration.
NatuRISE will contribute new data, indicators, models, methodologies and scientific evidence.
Restoration effects may not be experienced equally by everyone. NatuRISE will make these benefits, costs and distributional effects more visible and accessible.
NatuRISE will not directly implement restoration measures. Its contribution is evidence, assessments and decision-support approaches.
Enabling people to use better evidence
Capacity is not an end impact in itself, but an important enabling pathway for uptake and application. Tools and evidence can only contribute to change when people have the knowledge and confidence to understand and use them.
NatuRISE will therefore support capacity building through stakeholder engagement, training, webinars, guidance and opportunities to work with emerging tools and approaches.
Building knowledge and tools that continue beyond the project
NatuRISE aims to leave a lasting contribution beyond its four-year implementation period.
This legacy will be supported by:
The ambition is that NatuRISE results will continue to be:
by researchers, policymakers, practitioners and other users beyond the lifetime of the project.
From expected change to demonstrated impact
At the beginning of the project, our impact pathway describes the changes NatuRISE aims to contribute to. As the project progresses, we will add evidence showing whether and how these changes are occurring. We will track indicators such as:
Who accesses NatuRISE knowledge and tools?
Who participates in project activities?
Who uses NatuRISE results?
Where are results being applied?
Where do results inform research, policy or practice?
What changes can be linked to the use of NatuRISE results?