Examples include tree planting and other Natural Flood Management techniques, which use natural materials to slow the flow of water, reducing the chance of flash flooding, as well as increasing water storage throughout the landscape.

Nature-based solutions are sustainable planning, design, environmental management and engineering practices that weave natural features or processes into the built environment to promote adaptation and resilience. These solutions use natural features and processes to: Combat climate change. Reduce flood risk.

'NBS are living solutions inspired by, continuously supported by, and using nature. They are designed to address various environmental challenges in a resource efficient and adaptable manner and to provide simultaneously economic, social and environmental benefits' ([52]; p.42)