NatuRISE · NATURE RESTORATION IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS

The Nature Restoration Initiatives for Socio-Economic Enhancement (NatuRISE) project takes an integrated approach to get to a full valuation of nature restoration measures at the levels of EU policy makers, national authorities, and restoration implementers. It will provide a comprehensive and consistent assessment of the societal and environmental benefits and costs of nature restoration measures across sectors, actors, scales and time. Using a combination of observational and survey data, meta-analysis through newly developed LLM tools, enhanced, coupled and truly integrated models for landscape, land use and socio-economic modelling at different scales, NatuRISE will quantify the full extent of benefits and costs of nature restoration. Building on and advancing state of the art models, the project will integrate socio-economic and ecological feedbacks, human wellbeing, and equity dimensions into socio-economic modelling. Co-created with stakeholders in case studies across freshwater, forestry, and agricultural ecosystems, NatuRISE will develop a ready-to-use decision-support tool that makes restoration benefits and costs visible, traceable, and usable in business plans and policy frameworks. By 2031, NatuRISE will equip policymakers, landowners, and restoration implementers with robust evidence and tools. Through this enhanced knowledge, models and tools, NatuRISE aims to contribute to more nature-inclusive landscapes across Europe, where restoration measures have been widely implemented in ways that benefit farmers, land managers, and local communities equitably.