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Changes in rainfall

Climate change is altering rainfall patterns across Te Moananui Oceania, leading to more intense rainfall events, longer droughts, and increased flood and drought risks. This posse challenges for agriculture, water management, and infrastructure. The following nature-based solutions may be useful to address changes in rainfall, depending on location.

Bio-filters
Bioremediation / phytoremediation: water
Bio-shading
Bioswales / swales
Botanical gardens
Community gardens
Companion planting /
intercropping
Container gardens
Customary resource management
Ecosystem-based management
Flood resilient structures
Floodplain restoration
Green / living walls
Green Roofs/Living Roofs
Green / wildlife corridors,
bridges, belts
Indoor (food) gardens / greenhouses
Insect / bee hotels and nesting
boxes
Keyline design
Living crib walls / brush mattresses
Mulch
Nature-based stormwater
management
Permaculture
Pervious surfaces
Planting for biodiversity
Rainwater gardens
Rainwater harvesting
Revegetation / renaturing
Riparian restoration
River daylighting
River rewilding
Sand dunes: preservation /
restoration / stabilisation
Slow-forming terraces
Sponge cities
Urban forests
Urban orchards / edible
landscapes
Urban street trees
Vegetation-integrated buildings
Vertical farms
Waffle gardens
Water-caused erosion prevention
Wetlands: constructed
Wetlands: restoration or
preservation
Xeriscaping
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