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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Triple Bottom Line Guidelines
The Triple Bottom Line Guidelines from Melbourne Water outlines a process of including triple bottom line analysis into new water …
Estimating the costs and health benefits of water and sanitation improvements at global level
Estimating the costs and health benefits of water and sanitation improvements at global level compares the cost of improving water …
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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Seminatural Wetlands and Activated Sludge Wastewater-Treatment Systems
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Seminatural Wetlands and Activated Sludge Wastewater-Treatment Systems compares cost efficiency of wastewater treatment capacity for three …
Economic valuation of river restoration: An analysis of the valuation literature and its uses in decision making
Economic valuation of river restoration: An analysis of the valuation literature and its uses in decision-making compares valuations of 38 …
Economic-Engineering Method for Assessing Trade-Offs between Instream and Offstream Uses
Economic-Engineering Method for Assessing Trade-Offs between Instream and Offstream Uses creates a method for comparing values of instream and offstream …
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Recreation Benefits of Instream Flow: Application to Montana’s Big Hole and Bitterroot Rivers
Recreation Benefits of Instream Flow: Application to Montana’s Big Hole and Bitterroot Rivers uses economic valuation to calculate recreational and …
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Assessing The Direct Effects of Streamflow on Recreation: A Literature Review
Assessing The Direct Effects of Streamflow on Recreation: A Literature Review examines the relationship between stream flows and recreation quality. …
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Portland’s Green Infrastructure: Quantifying the Health, Energy, and Community Livability Benefits
Portland’s Green Infrastructure: Quantifying the Health, Energy, and Community Livability Benefits quantifies the benefits of green infrastructure (GI) initiatives. Using …
Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory
The Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory compiles over 5,000 studies of economic valuations of environmental health and services. It allows you …
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) …
Renaturing cities using a regionally-focused biodiversity-led multifunctional benefits approach to urban green infrastructure
This article, “Renaturing cities using a regionally-focused biodiversity-led multifunctional benefits approach to urban green infrastructure,” considers the biodiversity outcomes of …
A Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Studies to Assess the Property Value Effects of Low Impact Development
A Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Studies to Assess the Property Value Effects of Low Impact Development analyzed 35 different low impact …
The Effect of Low-Impact-Development on Property Values
The Effect of Low-Impact-Development on Property Values examines the added value to houses in a zip code in Seattle, WA …
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Quantifying the Potential Benefits of Land Conservation on Water Supply to Optimize Return on Investments
Quantifying the Potential Benefits of Land Conservation on Water Supply to Optimize Return on Investments uses economic valuation to determine …
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 …
The City Water Resilience Approach
The City Water Resilience Approach considers how cities can create resilient water management plans in the face of changing city …
i-Tree
The i-Tree portal allows environmental managers to quantify benefits of urban and rural forestry. The website provides tools from the …
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 …
A Framework for Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Dam Removal
A Framework for Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Dam Removal examines the case study of removing dams from the …
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The Economic Value of Riparian Buffers
The Economic Value of Riparian Buffers provides analyses of current valuation of riparian buffers. The report discusses valuation from impact …
Recreation Use Values Database
The Recreation Use Values Database catalogs studies that place valuations on recreational activities and the species related to these activities. …
An Analysis of the Demand for and Value of Outdoor Recreation in the United States
An Analysis of the Demand for and Value of Outdoor Recreation in the United States examines the valuation for 37 …
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EnviroAtlas
EnviroAtlas is an online mapping and analysis tool by the U.S. EPA that allows users to evaluate the potential impact …
Rapid Benefit Indicators (RBI) Approach
The Rapid Benefit Indicators (RBI) approach allows users to quickly estimate and quantify non-monetary benefits to people around an ecological …
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 …
Lower Snake River Dams: Economic Tradeoffs of Removal
The report, Lower Snake River Dams: Economic Tradeoffs of Removal, analyzes the costs and benefits of removing four dams along …
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 …
From brown to green? Assessing social vulnerability to environmental gentrification in New York City
From brown to green? Assessing social vulnerability to environmental gentrification in New York City uses multiple linear regression to examine …
Just green enough: contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Just green enough: contesting environmental gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn is a case study showing the benefits of partnerships between developers, …
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An Equitable Water Future
An Equitable Water Future highlights the main challenges and main solutions in water equity in the United States. There are …
Drinking Water and Wastewater Utility Customer Assistance Programs
Drinking Water and Wastewater Utility Customer Assistance Programs (CAPs) is a synopsis of utilities across the nation performing customer assistance …
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Towards a New Paradigm of Urban Water Infrastructure: Identifying Goals and Strategies to Support Multi-Benefit Municipal Wastewater Treatment
Towards a New Paradigm of Urban Water Infrastructure: Identifying Goals and Strategies to Support Multi-Benefit Municipal Wastewater Treatment examines the …
A mixed-methods approach to strategic planning for multi-benefit regional water infrastructure
A mixed-methods approach to strategic planning for multi-benefit regional water infrastructure presents a mix-methods approach for strategic planning to achieve …
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Economic Benefits: Metics and Methods for Landscape Performance Assessment
The Economic Benefits: Metrics and Methods for Landscape Performance Assessment presents a method and standard metrics for assessing the economic …
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Landscape Performance Series
The Landscape Performance Series is a compilation of case studies, fact sheets, and a Benefits Toolkit, to support sustainable landscape …
Water Funds Toolbox
The Water Fund Toolbox provides a wide variety of resources, case studies, tools, etc. for groups seeking to create or …
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 …
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’ is a review paper …
The Untapped Potential of California’s Water Supply: Efficiency, Reuse, and Stormwater – Issue Brief
Increased pressures on CaliforniaÂ’s water supply, including from population growth and intense periods of drought exacerbated by climate change, are …
Wiped Out by the ‘Greenwave’: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability
Wiped Out by the ‘Greenwave’: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability examines how profit driven environmental improvements …
Inclusive Urban Ecological Restoration in Toronto, Canada
Inclusive Urban Ecological Restoration in Toronto, Canada explores the ways improving diversity in park management could benefit Toronto communities. Involving …
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Dialogue on Diversity: Broadening the voices in urban and community forestry
Dialogue on Diversity: Broadening the Voices in Urban and Community Forestry reports the results of a national attempt to increase …
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Participatory development and the sustainable city: community forestry in Detroit
Participatory Development and the Sustainable City: Community Forestry in Detroit is a chapter in a book discussing sustainable city management. …
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Planning for inclusive urban ecological restoration
Planning for inclusive urban ecological restoration highlights some of the myths conservation managers might have about minority participation. It highlights …
Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity provides evidence that suggests that psychological benefits of greenspace increase with species richness. …
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Biodiverse perennial meadows have aesthetic value and increase residents’ perceptions of site quality in urban green-space
Researches used photos and as well as actual urban green spaces converted to meadows to evaluate perceptions of visitors to …
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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