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News
- 13/12/22: UN recognises Building with Nature Indonesia’s efforts with World Restoration Flagship award
- 25/10/21: Wetlands International at COP26
- 5/10/21: Adaptation Futures: Nature-based solutions for adaptation: breaking down the barriers for accelerating action across sectors
- 12/8/21: Joining forces with Boskalis towards sustainable engineering
- 12/8/21: Senior Programme Developer – Building with Nature Asia
- 23/07/21: Technical guidelines released for restoring eroding tropical coastlines
- 25/06/21: A Roadmap to address Land Subsidence for Central Java
- 17/5/21: Webinar series & guidelines: Creating sustainable mangrove aquaculture landscapes
- 28/4/21: Mangrove green belt in Demak sees rapid mangrove recovery through fishpond conversion
- 08/03/21: Investments and collaboration needed at scale to revive wetlands and speed up adaptation
- 25/01/21: Climate Adaptation Summit: Accelerating adaptation through Building with Nature in Asia
- 14/12/20: Continuing Indonesia’s nature-based coastal resilience through virtual outreach
- 10/12/20: Building with Nature programme in Indonesia wins international Flood & Coast Excellence award
- 20/11/20: Indonesia shares Building with Nature experience to accelerate climate adaptation
- 19/11/2020: Webinar ‘Accelerating Adaptation through Building with Nature in Indonesia’
- 30/10/2020: Webinar series about enablers for Building with Nature
- 22/10/2020: Webinar: ‘The road to successful Building with Nature projects’
- 13/03/2020: Dutch trade mission in Indonesia discusses integration of Building with Nature solutions for coastal and urban resilience
- 10/01/2020: New Building with Nature Master Online Open Course (MOOC)
- 10/9/2019: Building with Nature in Indonesia in the spotlight in Flagship report on Adaptation
- 10/9/2019: Global Flagship on Adaptation report: Work with nature, humanity first line of defence
- 10/7/2019: Asia rallies behind Building with Nature to scale up climate change adaptation efforts
- 4/7/2019: Accelerating Adaptation through Building with Nature: convening global leaders around an Asian challenge
- 24/06/2019: EcoShape at Climate Change Conference in Bonn
- 20/05/2019: Our efforts paid off: Global Platform for DRR 2019 emphasises the key role of ecosystems
- 05/02/2019: Building with Nature at Climate Conference (COP24) in Katowice
- 17/01/2019: Building with Nature Indonesia included in Engineering with Nature Atlas by US Army Corps of Engineers
- 26/11/2018: Coastal Wetlands and Mangroves: A Natural Climate Solution Pathway to Climate Change
- 26/11/2018: Countries can strengthen climate plans in 2020 with peatland and mangrove targets
- 30/08/18: First design workshop in Semarang to develop solutions for the cityu2019s sinking and flooding challenges
- 28/08/18: Kick off Building with Nature Training for public and private sector in Indonesia
- 13/07/18: Permeable Structure Handover to Local Communities of Three Villages in Demak District
- 02/07/2018: Woods versus Waves: the worldu2019s first life-size experiment to test the power of willows and mangroves to protect us from floods
- 27/06/2018: EcoShape conference u2018Scaling up Building with Natureu2019, with keynote speeches from Building with Nature Indonesia Consortium
- 09/04/2018: First national workshop held in Indonesia to address land subsidence problems
- 22/03/2018: Building with Nature u2013 the answer to water related challenges is in nature
- 10/10/2017: Besides Building with Nature Demak needs to tackle subsidence to safeguard coastline
- 26/7/2017: Experts draw attention to a successful method of mangrove regeneration on International Mangrove Day
- 06/02/17: Germany helps to scale up Building with Nature in Indonesia
- 21/11/16: Building with Nature prominent during Dutch trade mission to Indonesia
- 24/10/16: New series of mangrove restoration works on eroded coast in Java
- 16/03/16: Building with Nature Indonesia wins Dutch engineering award
- 01/03/16: First Year of Building with Nature Indonesia implemented
- 03/03/15: Indonesia and Netherlands launch large coastal safety initiative in Java

Blogs
- 29/10/21: Breaking down the barriers for accelerating action across sectors on Nature-based solutions
- 19/10/20: Which factors drive the evolution of mangrove coastlines?
- 31/3/20: Building with Nature part of curriculum at Indonesian universities
- 29/11/19: Building with Nature project in Central Java inspires students, media and governments
- 26/11/19: Building with Nature: scaling solutions to flood threats across Asia
- 18/10/19: Mangroves: cost-efficient and risk-informed coastal defence infrastructure for Indonesia
- 10/10/19: Innovative aquaculture experiment supporting mangrove recovery ready for wider uptake by farmers
- 06/03/2019: Communities manage permeable structures to restore mangroves in Java
- 24/07/2018: How can the Building with Nature approach contribute to coastal and flood safety projects?
- 06/05/2018: Water we doing about Water?
- 10/08/2017: Sustainable aquaculture Demak: shrimp yield tripled and income doubled
- 26/5/2017: Reflections from Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction: We need to use nature smarter than we have in the past
- 27/09/16: Like music to my ears (with hydraulic engineers)
- 25/07/16: To plant or not to plant?
- 04/07/16: Are ecosystem-based adaptation solutions gaining ground?
- 27/06/16: Meet Abdul, a local champion of Building with Nature Indonesia
- 14/06/16: Building with Nature concept successfully introduced in Suriname
- 09/06/16: Outsmarting climate change on a budget
- 06/02/16: Building with Nature in Northern Java, taking it step by step
- 26/04/16: A new hope for local fish farmers in coastal Demak
Building with Nature Indonesia In The News
- Living with water: climate adaptation in the world’s deltas, January 2021
- Inspiring change: Stories of transformational shifts towards greener development, January 2021
- Dutchwatersector: Building with Nature solutions for Indonesian coastal and urban resilience. March 2020
- IKI: Building with Nature: scaling solutions to flood threats across Asia, December 2019
- Better World Solutions: Natural coast protection Indonesia. September 2019
- Global Commission on Adaptation: On Java's Coast, A Natural Approach to Holding Back the Waters. September 2019
- Dutchwatersector: Asian scale up of climate adaptation efforts with nature-based measures. July 2019
- Building with Nature Indonesia, included as case in 'The role of the Natural Environment in Adaptation. Background paper for the Global Commission on Adaptation (2019
- Jakarta Post: Jakarta Post: Govt innovates to halt coastal erosion:. July 2019
- Inhabitat: Indonesia builds a resilient living shoreline. March 2019
- Water Matters (H20), Natural Mangrove Recovery. June 2018
- Reuters: Sinking shoreline threatens coastal communities in Indonesia, March 2018
- Wageningen University: Weaving dams to defend mangroves, 2017
- Boskalis Horizon Magazine: Eco-shaping the Future, November 2016
- BBC: Let mangroves recover' to protect coasts, September 2016
- Terra et Aqua: Building with Nature: Sustainable protection of mangrove coasts, September 2016
Questions & Answers:
Building with Nature is innovative and site specific and it operates in areas where the understanding of systems is limited and where changes are dynamic. In our pilot project in Indonesia, we have therefore adopted a strategy of learning-by-doing and we are sharing our knowledge and the lessons we learn widely to support the sound replication of our approach. In this document, we provide answers to the most regularly posted questions to us.