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Abstract. Hydro-meteorological risks due to natural hazards such as severe floods, storm surges, landslides and droughts are causing impacts on different sectors of society. Such risks are expected to become worse given projected changes in climate, degradation of ecosystems, population growth and urbanisation. In this respect, nature-based solutions (NBSs) have emerged
as effective means to respond to such challenges. A NBS is a term used for
innovative solutions that are based on natural processes and ecosystems to
solve different types of societal and environmental challenges. The present
paper provides a critical review of the literature concerning NBSs for
hydro-meteorological risk reduction and identifies current knowledge gaps
and future research prospects. There has been a considerable growth of
scientific publications on this topic, with a more significant rise taking
place from 2007 onwards. Hence, the review process presented in this paper
starts by sourcing 1608 articles from Scopus and 1431 articles from the Web of
Science. The full analysis was performed on 146 articles. The analysis
confirmed that numerous advancements in the area of NBSs have been achieved
to date. These solutions have already proven to be valuable in providing
sustainable, cost-effective, multi-purpose and flexible means for
hydro-meteorological risk reduction. However, there are still many areas
where further research and demonstration are needed in order to promote
their upscaling and replication and to make them become mainstream
solutions.

This guide presents a joint effort of projects funded under the European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS) (http://www.jpi-climate.eu/ERA4CS), a co- funded action initiated by JPI Climate with co-funding by the European Union (Grant 690462), 15 national public Research Funding Organisations (RFOs), and 30 Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) from 18 European countries. This guide sets out to increase the understanding of different pathways, methods, and approaches to improve knowledge co-production of climate services with users as a value-added activity of the ERA4CS Programme. Reflecting on the experiences of 16 of the 26 projects funded under ERA4CS, this guide aims to define and recommend good practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-production of climate services to researchers, users, funding agencies, and private sector service providers. Drawing on responses from ERA4CS project teams to a questionnaire and interviews, this guide maps the diversity of methods for stakeholder identification, involvement, and engagement. It also conducts an analysis of methods, tools, and mechanisms for engagement as well as evaluation of co-production processes. This guide presents and discusses good practice examples based on the review of the ERA4CS projects, identifying enablers and barriers for key elements in climate service co-production processes. These were: namely (i) Forms of Engagement; (ii) Entry Points for Engagement; and, (iii) Intensity of Involvement. It further outlines key ingredients to enhance the quality of co-producing climate services with users and stakeholders. Based on the analysis of the lessons learned from ERA4CS projects, as well as a review of key concepts in the recent literature on climate service co-production, we provide a set of recommendations for researchers, users, funders and private sector providers of climate services. ; This report is not externally peer-reviewed Revisions: 2022-02-11 The report PDF was published. 2022-05-06 An incorrect spelled author name was ...