Bridging nature, health and equity: advancing evidence-based solutions for a resilient future
The LILY Action aims to address critical gaps in monitoring and evaluating the diverse health benefits and potential negative consequences of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) by establishing a comprehensive framework, robust indicators, and innovative data integration methods, all while accounting for vulnerability and inequality in implementation.
By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists, practitioners, stakeholders, and communities, LILY aims to co-produce a system-thinking framework linking NbS interventions to health outcomes, design guidelines for meaningful health indicators, integrate novel data sources and analytical techniques, and create a network and data platform to support information exchange and capacity building.
Ultimately, the project seeks to ensure that NbS are implemented in ways that maximise health co-benefits, minimize unintended harms, and advance both equity and innovation in climate adaptation and sustainability strategies.
Objectives
Pursued through interdisciplinary research, co-production with stakeholders, development of best-practice guidelines, capacity building (e.g., summer schools and workshops), and the creation of a digital network platform for collaboration, data sharing, and dissemination.
Research objectives
Capacity-building objectives
Who we are
We are an interdisciplinary alliance of researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders working across Europe to advance evidence-based approaches for evaluating and maximiqing the health impacts of nature-based solutions.
Our network brings together expertise from health sciences, environmental sciences, ecology, engineering, and policy to co-produce frameworks, guidelines, and collaborative platforms for tackling health, vulnerability, and inequality in nature-based solutions implementation.
