Engineering with nature: an atlas

This atlas is a collection of 56 project case studies that illustrate a diverse portfolio of contexts, motivations, and successful outcomes that integrate natural processes into engineering strategies that support navigation, flood risk management, ecosystem restoration, or other purposes. Developing projects that combine natural and engineered systems to produce more value and a broader array of benefits is gaining increasing attention worldwide.

This atlas was created in order to highlight and share examples of this practice—and efforts to simultaneously achieve engineering, environmental, and social benefits—from around the world. These projects are presented and considered in this atlas using an Engineering With Nature lens as a means of revealing the use of nature-based approaches and the range of benefits that can be achieved.