Evaluating NBS benefits, co-benefits, and trade-offs can be a data intensive
process. Understanding the data requirements is a critical element in relation to
ensuring both the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of this evaluation process. In
order to establish the monitoring plans and schemes described in previous
chapters, and to deliver this over the range of relevant scales, it is therefore
critical to generate data that are both applicable for the nature-based solution
impact assessment, and that are comparable to the preceding monitoring
campaigns. This chapter addresses the data requirements involved in evaluating
the impacts that nature-based solutions manifest and explains the data building
blocks involved in NBS monitoring and assessment procedures
