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Optimisation of selection and placement of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation: a literature review on the modelling and resolution approaches

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Nature-Based Solutions can be considered one of the best answers to the various consequences and problems caused by climate change, poor urbanisation and population growth. They are used not only as measures for the protection, sustainable management and restoration of natural and modified ecosystems but also as measures to mitigate certain natural disasters such as erosion, flooding, drought, storm surge and landslide. The benefit is for both biodiversity and human well-being. This paper reviews articles about optimising the selection and placement of Nature-Based Solutions. It presents several Operations Research approaches used in the context of climate adaptation. The analysis provided in this paper focuses on various case studies, state-of-the-art on Nature-Based Solutions, Operations Research algorithms, dissertations, and other papers dealing with infrastructure placement approaches in the context of climate adaptation.

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Abbreviations

AHP:

Analytic hierarchy process

AMALGAM:

Approach a multiALgorithm, Genetically Adaptive Multi-objective

AMS:

Adaptive metropolis search

B&B:

Branch & bound

BMP:

Best management practices

FIFO:

First in first out

GIS:

Geographic information system

GSA:

Gravitational search algorithm

IP:

Integer programming

LHS:

Latin hypercube sampling

LID:

Low-impact development

LP:

Linear programming

L-THIA-LID:

Long-term hydrologic impact assessment-low-impact development

MILP:

Mixed-integer linear programming

MOP:

Multi-objective problem

MOPSO:

Multi-objective particle-swarm optimisation

MOSA:

Multi-objective simulated annealing

MOSS:

Multi-objective scatter search

MOTS:

Multi-objective tabu search

MUSIC:

Model for urban stormwater improvement conceptualisation

NBS:

Nature-based solutions

NOx:

Nitrate and nitrite

NP:

Non polynomial

NSGA-II:

Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II

PSO:

Particle-swarm optimisation

SA:

Simulated annealing

SBPAT:

Structural BMP prioritisation and analysis tool

SOP:

Single-objective problem

SUSTAIN:

System for urban stormwater treatment and analysis integration

SWAT:

Soil and water assessment

SWMM:

Storm water management model

TKN:

Total Kjeldahl nitrogen

TP:

Total phosphorous

TS:

Tabu search

TSS:

Total suspended solids

USDA:

United States Department of Agriculture

US EPA:

United States Environmental Protection Agency

WMOST:

Watershed management optimisation support tool

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Acknowledgements

This review was conducted as part of an internship. Thanks to the help and supervision of Dr Felicien Barhebwa Mushamuka and the company Mitigrate for allowing me to discover this new field of application of optimisation and Operations Research.

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FBM and LF designed the review’s objectives, and FBM selected the first set of papers. JC read and analysed this set of documents and completed it with more specialised documents. JC produced the figures and then the first version of the paper. FBM corrected this version and added suggestions.

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Correspondence to Justin Capgras.

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Appendix A Case study examples

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Table 3 Optimisation methods used in the context of climate adaptation

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Capgras, J., Barhebwa Mushamuka, F. & Feuilleaubois, L. Optimisation of selection and placement of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation: a literature review on the modelling and resolution approaches. Environ Syst Decis 43, 577–598 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-023-09933-y

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