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Overview of COST Action LILY

Bridging nature, health and equity: advancing evidence-based solutions for a resilient future

The LILY Action aims to address critical gaps in monitoring and evaluating the diverse health benefits and potential negative consequences of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) by establishing a comprehensive framework, robust indicators, and innovative data integration methods, all while accounting for vulnerability and inequality in implementation.

By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists, practitioners, stakeholders, and communities, LILY aims to co-produce a system-thinking framework linking NbS interventions to health outcomes, design guidelines for meaningful health indicators, integrate novel data sources and analytical techniques, and create a network and data platform to support information exchange and capacity building.

Ultimately, the project seeks to ensure that NbS are implemented in ways that maximise health co-benefits, minimize unintended harms, and advance both equity and innovation in climate adaptation and sustainability strategies.

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Objectives

Pursued through interdisciplinary research, co-production with stakeholders, development of best-practice guidelines, capacity building (e.g., summer schools and workshops), and the creation of a digital network platform for collaboration, data sharing, and dissemination.

Research objectives
Coordinate synthesis of gaps in the current approaches and protocols for evidence generation on NbS-Health impact assessment under current and future environmental conditions.
Develop a common definition of co-benefits and unintended consequences of different types of NbS for human health and well-being.
Conceptualise causal pathways, underlying mechanisms, and mediating and modifying factors of NbS impacts on human health and well-being.
Design guidelines for the development of indicators of human health-related outcomes (both co-benefits and unintended consequences) for inclusion in the monitoring and adaptive management of NbS.
Frame vulnerability and inequality within the NbS-Health concept and incorporate them into guidelines for indicator design.
Share knowledge on applying novel data streams and methodologies, and address ethical considerations for monitoring, adaptive management, and assessment of indicators and health-related outcomes of NbS.
Create a NbS-Health network and data platform to act as a central information repository for NbS projects throughout Europe and as a matchmaking platform between scientists and implementers.
Capacity-building objectives
Foster knowledge transfer to young scientists regarding NbS-Health insights generated under the Research Objectives.
Foster knowledge exchange and training among young and experienced researchers from different disciplines on novel data streams, advanced methodology, vulnerability and inequality, and the ethical aspects of NbS-Health.
Translate and disseminate NbS-Health knowledge produced in the research objectives to stakeholders, NbS implementers, and decision-makers