Welcome to the Interactive Web Map
This tool streamlines the collaboration in applying the Participative Downscaling Method of the NB3 Framework to identify spatially-relevant restoration units.
Users of this tool can add, view, or edit polygons, thus the Nature-based Building Blocks (NB3), at any user-specified restoration site.
The tool complements the framework's application within the EU H2020 Rest-Coast project:
➜ Pre-identified Coastal Units at three coastal restoration pilots are embedded in this tool: load file using 🌊 RC
➜ For existing Coastal Units, stakeholders can collaboratively work on associated data in 📁 the pilots' shared directory: e.g. 📊 the Venice Lagoon's Artificial Salt Marsh Reconstruction
➜ For new Coastal Units, stakeholders can collaborate on one of the template files in, e.g. 📁 the Venice Lagoon's shared directory: 📊 The NB3 Instance Template
New users of this tool can refer to the following articles and report for more detailed information on the design, development, and application of the NB3 Framework:
1. C. Arslan et al. (2024) in Rest-Coast Task 4.2 Deliverable.
2. C. Arslan & J.M. van Loon-Steensma (2025) in Nature-Based Solutions.
3. C. Arslan et al. (2026) in Ocean & Coastal Management.
The tool supports the application of the framework beyond coastal landscapes and EU context, which is illustrated by:
➜ the framework's application at peatland and wet forest in collabration with the Waterlands, the sister project of the Rest-Coast: load file using 🐸 WL
➜ launching a blank map for applying the Participative Downscaling Method across any landscape: load map using 🌍 MAP
The users can locally run and edit shape files contaning the NB3 instances: load file using 📂 DIR
NOTE: After creating a new NB3 instance on the map:
1. Go to 📁 the shared directory,
2. Copy the link to one of the template files, e.g. 📊 The NB3 Instance Template newUnit1,
3. Couple this link to the newly created NB3 instance, e.g., right click followed by Edit NB3 Unit,
4. Collaborate on the file by identifying biophsyical, ecological, and socio-economic data that is spatially relevant to this unit.
IMPORTANT: If an existing NB3 Instance is modified (e.g. metadata, shape...), or a new NB3 Instance is identified (e.g. by drawing a polygon or loading a shape file):
1.Use Save NB3 Units button to locally store the most up-to-date version of the shape file.
Save using the default file name, which includes a date stamp for version control, i.e. NB3Units_YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM.json.
2.Upload this new version to the shared project directory at: upToDateNB3Units
If access is denied, please contact cengiz.arslan@wur.nl for folder access permission.