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Identifying Best Practices for Financing Natural Infrastructure Projects: Insights for the Engineering with Nature® Initiative

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There is currently a lack of information on how to fund or finance natural infrastructure (NI). As NI continues to be mainstreamed, project leads will require innovative financing practices to account for the different lifecycle costs associated with NI projects. This project seeks to identify, evaluate, and share examples of NI projects that have secured the necessary funds from a variety of sources and innovating methods. In particular, this project is exploring the manner in which funds have been secured for scoping, designing, constructing, monitoring, and/or adaptively managing NI projects.

The project intends to showcase a diversity of project types and funding/ financing mechanisms. The library of case studies will increase as additional projects are identified. Practitioners can nominate projects to be featured by submitting the web form in the case study library.

Case Study Library

Funding and Financing Natural Infrastructure: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

A series of case studies to share innovative examples of funding and financing natural infrastructure. From homeowner cost-sharing programs to watershed-wide wetland restoration efforts

Related Resources and Partner Efforts

The National Wildlife Federation Nature-Based Solutions Database

An interactive database for communities interested in pursuing federal funding and/or technical assistance for nature-based solutions. Use the filters to search for nature-based solutions funding and technical assistance resources that fit your needs.

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Knowledge gaps surrounding natural infrastructure (NI) life cycles and performance thwa...
This technical note is part of a series collaboratively produced by the US Army Corps o...
This technical note is part of a series collaboratively produced by the US Army Corps o...

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Research Environmental Engineer, Environmental Laboratory, ERDC

Biological Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources

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2023
Dr. Andrew McQueen, Margaret Kurth, and Stephanie Galaitsi from the ERDC Environmental Laboratory (EL), Environmental...

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