ForewordCreating Value by Engineering With NatureWe rely on natural processes and landscapes to sustain human life and well-being. Our energy, water, infrastructure, and agricultural systems use these processes and landscapes to satisfy our most basic human needs. One motivation, therefore, for protecting the environment is to sustain the ecosystem goods and services upon which we depend. As we emerge from the sixth decade of modern environmentalism, there is a growing international awareness of opportunities to efficiently and effectively integrate natural and engineered systems to create even more value.I hope you enjoy learning from the projects in this book while considering future ways that you can contribute to Engineering With Nature.Working with natural processes to manage flood and coastal erosion risks is an important theme in the UK Government's new national 25-year plan for the environment. Engineering With Nature, or "Natural Flood Management" as we often refer to it, is an important tool in flood risk toolbox and can bring fabulous environmental benefits too.Approaching flood risk with softer engineered solutions is not new to our engineers. For years, many of our beaches have been managed to take the energy out of stormy seas to protect our coasts, and in the northeast of England, flood water has been stored in catchments on the "Ings"-and old Norse word for flood meadows-for generations.What is new is a better understanding of how we can work collaboratively to provide the most effective blend of solutions. Too often, the conversation has been about a false choice between hard or soft engineering-as if there were conflict or competition between them.We're proud to have been able to contribute nine case studies to the Engineering With Nature Atlas. I hope you'll be inspired by the projects in the Atlas from across the world and use it to continue to build our capacity to collaborate with each other and with nature to protect people from environmental hazards and to enhance the environment for wildlife.

Engineering With Nature: An Atlas, Volume 2 showcases EWN principles and practices "in action" through 62 projects from around the world. These exemplary projects demonstrate what it means to partner with nature to deliver engineering solutions with triple-win benefits. The collection of projects included were developed and constructed by a large number of government, private sector, non-governmental organizations, and other organizations. Through the use of photographs and narrative descriptions, the EWN Atlas was developed to inspire interested readers and practitioners with the potential to engineer with nature.