Enhancing Nature-Based Solutions in Serbia : The role of ecosystems in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Serbia is exposed to various natural hazards, including earthquakes, floods, landslides, droughts, wildfires and storms and faces major environmental challenges and climate-related risks, calling for a stronger agenda to improve the national resilience to and mitigation of climate change. Floods and droughts have caused significant damage to infrastructure, the economy, and human livelihoods in the past, especially among vulnerable groups. Climate change may intensify the frequency and scale of natural disasters.

This scoping study has been developed, in part, to enable better understanding of the Serbian national context, in terms of the institutional, policy and legal framework and reveal the key challenges for the application of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) along with the recommendations and entry points for the mainstreaming of the NBS into national disaster risk reduction and climate change policies and strategies.