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 …
Peak flood volume
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
Green Infrastructure & Health Guide
Green Infrastructure & Health Guide provides the tools, resources, and evidence for the connections between green infrastructure (GI) and human …
Case Study Fluvial and ecosystem restoration of the Arga-Aragón Rivers systems by combining measures
Case Study: Fluvial and ecosystem restoration of the Arga-Aragon Rivers systems by combining measures details the process and implementation of …
Milwaukee Green Infrastructure Scenarios Tool
The Milwaukee Green Infrastructure Scenarios Tool (GIST) helps decision makers to analyze various scenarios and determine the best stormwater management …
Preliminary Data Summary of Urban Storm Water Best Management Practices
Preliminary Data Summary of Urban Storm Water Best Management Practices synthesizes existing information on costs and environmental benefits of stormwater …
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Developing Scenarios to Assess Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs: Guidance and Case Studies for InVEST Users
Developing Scenarios to Assess Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs: Guidance and Case Studies for InVEST Users provides an evaluation of six case …
Green Infrastructure Opportunities and Barriers in the Greater Los Angeles Region
Green Infrastructure Opportunities and Barriers in the Greater Los Angeles Region analyzes the regulatory barriers to installing green infrastructure in …
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Co-benefits for Water and Biodiversity from the Sustainable Management of High Nature Value Farmland
Co-benefits for Water and Biodiversity from the Sustainable Management of High Nature Value Farmland examines the potential for high nature …
Oro Loma Horizontal Levee Vegetation Report
The Oro Loma Horizontal Levee Project is a multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional project combining the expertise of numerous project partners to …
Stormwater Capture Master Plan
Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Stormwater Capture Master Plan develops a strategy for long-term stormwater capture potential, …
Bay Area Project Tackles Sea-Level Rise and Water Quality
Bay Area Project Tackles Sea-Level Rise and Water Quality reports on a creative adaptive management strategy that has been applied …
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Making the Utility Case for Onsite Non-potable Water Systems
Making the Utility Case for Onsite Non-potable Water Systems is a report that 1) defines the scope of onsite non-potable …
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Envision Framework
Envision is a framework that provides the guidance needed to initiate this systemic change in the planning, design and delivery …
Envision V3 User Manual
The Envision V3 (Draft Credits for Public Review and Comment) user manual outlines additions to the Envision framework, a sustainability …
The Hidden Value of Landscapes: Implications for Drought Planning
The Hidden Value of Landscapes: Implications for Drought Planning analyzes the impacts of landscaping on quality of life, environment, and …
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Green Infrastructure: Lessons from Science and Practice
Green Infrastructure: Lessons from Science and Practice provides a literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles that measure and analyze flood …
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Barriers and Gateways to Green Infrastructure
Barriers and Gateways to Green Infrastructure identifies and explores the major barriers to implementation of green infrastructure for stormwater management. …
The Economics of Low-Impact Development: A Literature Review
The Economics of Low-Impact Development: A Literature Review provides a review of economic valuations of low-impact development projects. The multiple …
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Impacts of forest restoration on water yield: A systematic review
Impacts of forest restoration on water yield: A systematic review provides an academic review of 666 journals and studies conducted …
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Freshwater Health Index Dongjiang Basin, China: An assessment of freshwater ecosystem health
The Freshwater Health Index is a tool that examines three components of ecosystem health: ecosystem vitality (i.e., water quantity, water …
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Green infrastructure and its catchment-scale effects: An emerging science
Green infrastructure and its catchment-scale effects: An emerging science provides an overview of past research conducted on the impacts of …
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The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits
The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits is an in-depth framework for …
Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management
Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management provides an academic, theoretical critique on the evaluation of multi-benefit systems. The …
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The Value of Green Infrastructure for Urban Climate Adaptation
The Value of Green Infrastructure for Urban Climate Adaptation provides a methodology for calculating the costs and benefits of green …
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Life-cycle cost-benefit analysis of extensive vegetated roof systems
Life-cycle cost-benefit analysis of extensive vegetated roof systems assesses the benefits and costs of green roofs from a pilot study …
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Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference details the methodology for quantifying the co-benefits or adverse impacts of water storage projects …
Banking on Green: A Look at How Green Infrastructure Can Save Municipalities Money and Provide Economic Benefits Community-wide
Banking on Green provides a business case for green infrastructure practices in the United States. Benefits cited within the report …
Proposition 1 Stormwater Grant Program Guidelines
Proposition 1 Stormwater Grant Program Guidelines, related to the Stormwater Grant Program (SWGP), establishes the process and criteria by which …
Hydrologic Shortcomings of Conventional Urban Stormwater Management and Opportunities for Reform
Hydrologic shortcomings of conventional urban stormwater management and opportunities for reform contrasts two conventional approaches to stormwater, one of which …
Strategy to Optimize Resource Management of Storm Water (Storm Water Strategy, STORMS)
Strategy to Optimize Resource Management of Storm Water is a California State Water Board statewide strategy for stormwater management. The …
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