Nature-based Solutions Evidence Platform
The Nature-based Solutions Evidence Platform provides visualization and sorting tools for resources and data related to benefits from nature-based solutions. …
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Downstream Economic Benefits of Conservation Development
Downstream Economic Benefits of Conservation Development uses a case study in Chicago, Illinois to value the benefits of on-site stormwater …
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Green Infrastructure Evaluation Framework
The Green Infrastructure Evaluation Framework allows for people planning green infrastructure projects to identify and systematically calculate project benefits. Step …
Green Infrastructure Co-Benefits Valuation Tool
The Green Infrastructure Co-Benefits Valuation Tool is an Excel based economic valuation model. It calculates the net present value (NPV) …
Identifying linkages between urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services using an expert opinion methodology
Identifying linkages between urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services using an expert opinion methodology compares benefits in urban distributed stormwater …
How much water can be captured from flood flows to store in depleted aquifers for mitigating floods and droughts? A case study from Texas, US
How much water can be captured from flood flows to store in depleted aquifers for mitigating floods and droughts? A …
Nature-Based Solutions Evidence Tool
The Nature-Based Solutions Evidence Tool is primarily an online catalog of peer-reviewed research that provides evidence of the impacts of …
The Napa River Basin, California
The Napa River Basin, California provides a short overview of the multi-benefit approach taken by the Napa River communities to …
Economics for the Environment Project Page
The Economics for the Environment Project Page provides summaries of several case studies and economic valuations for natural resources in …
Bringing Water and Land Use Together
Bringing Water and Land Use Together discusses Integrated Regional Water Management. This strategy is similar to the multi-benefit framework and …
Landscape Performance Series
The Landscape Performance Series is a compilation of case studies, fact sheets, and a Benefits Toolkit, to support sustainable landscape …
Landscape Performance Series: Benefits Toolkit
The Benefits Toolkit, housed in the Landscape Performance Series, lists calculators and tools that directly help with quantifying the benefits …
Green Infrastructure Co-Benefits Valuation Tool
The Green Infrastructure Co-benefits Valuation Tool is intended to provide a framework, methods, and values to support rapid screening-level analysis …
NatCap Checker
The NatCap Checker is a tool by the Natural Capital Coalition, created to help organizations make more informed decisions that …
Natural Infrastructure in the Nexus
This paper discusses how natural infrastructure, the networks of land and water that provide services to people, can help decision …
Climate Change: Opportunities to Reduce Federal Fiscal Exposure
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released an analysis of the economic costs and benefits of climate change to …
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Water Resources Management: Optimizing within a Watershed Context
This resource provides an explanation of a model that was developed to evaluate a broad range of technical, economic, and …
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A Northwest Vision for 2040 Water Infrastructure
In A Northwest Vision for 2040 Water Infrastructure the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure presents a vision for the future of …
Multisolving
Multisolving is a concept developed by the Climate Interactive that provides an approach for finding systematic solutions that protect the …
San Francisco Bay Shoreline Adaptation Atlas
The San Francisco Bay Shoreline Adaptation Atlas offers practitioners and decision makers in the region a comprehensive, science-based framework for …
Measuring Benefits of Distributed, Nature-Based Stormwater Projects
Measuring Benefits of Distributed, Nature-Based Stormwater Projects explores a variety of factors relevant to the assessment of distributed, nature-based stormwater …
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Water LA
The 2018 Water LA report by the River Project explores the opportunities for and challenges of building a resilient region …
Moving Toward a Multiple Benefits Approach for Water Management
The Pacific Institute’s report, Moving Toward a Multiple Benefits Approach for Water Management, proposes a framework for systematically identifying and …
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Methods to Assess Co-Benefits of California Climate Investments: Water Supply and Availability
Methods to Assess Co-benefits of California Climate Investments: Water Supply and Availability is a literature review of the different methodologies …
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Modelling Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Large Wood Recruitment, Transport, and Deposition at the River Reach Scale during Extreme Floods
Modelling Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Large Wood Recruitment, Transport, and Deposition at the River Reach Scale during Extreme Floods presents a …
From Projects to Portfolios: Mainstreaming Large-Scale Investment in Integrated Infrastructure
The report From Projects to Portfolios by Earth Economics is a helpful guide and resource for municipal, NGO, and charitable …
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Healthy Lands and Healthy Economies: The multiple benefits of Sonoma County working and natural lands
Sonoma County Ag + Open Space presents the results of a thorough economic assessment of the county’s agricultural and natural …
Health Lands and Healthy Economies website
This is the landing page for Sonoma County Ag + Open Space Health Lands & Healthy Economies program. This website …
The Blueprint for Increased Investment in Green Infrastructure
The Blueprint for Increased Investment in Green Infrastructure is a comprehensive resource for water managers and other decision makers seeking …
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On Spatially Distributed Hydrologic Ecosystem Services: Bridging the Quantitative Information Gap Using Remote Sensing and Hydrological Models
The white paper, On Spatially Distributed Hydrologic Ecosystem Services, provides an explanation of and use case examples for a hydrologic …
Sustainable Landscapes in the Santa Ana River Watershed
The Sustainable Landscapes in the Santa Ana River Watershed map is an interactive tool that allows users to explore potential …
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Opportunities for natural infrastructure to improve urban water security in Latin America
Opportunities for natural infrastructure to improve urban water security in Latin America offers a continent-scale analysis of ecosystem services provided …
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Valuing investments in sustainable land management in the Upper Tana River basin, Kenya
Valuing investments in sustainable land management in the Upper Tana basin, Kenya provides a case study of valuing ecosystem services …
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Review of decision support tools to operationalize the ecosystem services concept
The journal article, Review of decision support tools to operationalize the ecosystem services concept, provides a synthesis of a broad …
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Accounting for U.S. ecosystem services at national and subnational scales
Accounting for U.S. ecosystem services at national and subnational scales is an ongoing project of the John Wesley Powell Center …
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SEEA-Water System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water
SEEA-Water System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water is a qualitative and comprehensive framework that aids in the organization of hydrologic …
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System of National Accounts 2008
System of National Accounts 2008 is a qualitative and comprehensive framework that aids in the organization of economic data from …
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 Central Framework
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 Central Framework is a qualitative and comprehensive framework that aids in the organization of environmental …
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System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 Experimental Ecosystem Accounting
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 Experimental Ecosystem Accounting is an addition to the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 Central Framework. …
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Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods
Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods provides a comprehensive summary of economic valuation techniques used for water …
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FLOWER: Framework for Long-Term, Whole-System, Equity-Based Reflection
FLOWER: Framework for Long-Term, Whole-System, Equity-Based Reflection is a decision-making framework for “multisolving,” or systematically examining climate solutions that provide …
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Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, Chapter 4: Sustainability Assessment and Management: Process, Tools, and Indicators
Sustainability Assessment and Management: Process, Tools, and Indicators provides an overview on how to approach sustainability assessment and management. The …
SCORE: Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) for Sustainability Appraisal of Remedial Alternatives
SCORE: Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) for Sustainability Appraisal of Remedial Alternatives is a tool used to evaluate the sustainability of a …
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Multi-criteria decision analysis in environmental sciences: Ten years of applications and trends
Multi-criteria decision analysis in environmental sciences: Ten years of applications and trends examines the use of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) …
From comparative risk assessment to multi-criteria decision analysis and adaptive management: Recent developments and applications
From comparative risk assessment to multi-criteria decision analysis and adaptive management: Recent developments and applications provides a summary of regulatory …
Green Infrastructure & Health Guide
Green Infrastructure & Health Guide provides the tools, resources, and evidence for the connections between green infrastructure (GI) and human …
National Management Measures to Protect and Restore Wetlands and Riparian Areas for the Abatement of Nonpoint Source Pollution
National Management Measures to Protect and Restore Wetlands and Riparian Areas for the Abatement of Nonpoint Source Pollution is a …
Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Urban Water Conservation: Final Report
Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Urban Water Conservation Final Report presents a method for valuing the environmental benefits of water …
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One Water Roadmap: The Sustainable Management of Life’s Most Essential Resource
One Water Roadmap: The Sustainable Management of Life’s Most Essential Resource provides a comprehensive “One Water” framework for the United …
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The Economic Impact of Green City, Clean Waters: The First Five Years
The Economic Impact of Green City, Clean Waters: The First Five Years evaluates the economic impact of the Green City, …
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