Natural hazards pose significant threats to human societies. Nature-based solutions (NbS) have emerged as a promising approach to address these challenges. China’s Ecological Conservation Redline (ECR) policy, which aims to safeguard ecosystem integrity and connectivity, provides a powerful framework for applying NbS. However, previous studies have paid little attention to the role of ECR in mitigating natural hazards. This study investigates how to optimize the ECR for mitigating natural hazards in Zhejiang Province, China. Using a “hazard formation, ecosystem response, NbS governance” framework, the research assesses multi-hazard susceptibility, identifies ecosystem services (ES) conservation priority areas, and ultimately optimizes the ECR pattern. The MaxEnt model was employed to evaluate hazard susceptibility, while the Ordered Weighted Averaging method was used to overlay different ES scenarios to determine conservation priorities. The results indicate that high-risk areas for collapse, mudslide, and landslide are predominantly located in the western and southern mountainous regions of Zhejiang, with the multi-hazard integration showing that high-risk areas cover 17.67% of the total land area. We set up 11 scenarios with varying risk values, showing that as risk values increase, the extent of conservation priority areas generally expands and overlaps more with ECR areas. Based on the comprehensive analysis, the scenario offering the optimal balance between ES conservation and hazard mitigation efficiency was selected to optimize the ECR, improving the ECR’s protective coverage of hazard-prone areas from 17.97% to 38.55%. Optimizing ECR through the NbS approach can effectively contribute to risk management while providing policy enlightenment to Territorial Spatial Planning.
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