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. …
Water quality
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
The Untapped Potential of California’s Water Supply: Efficiency, Reuse, and Stormwater – Issue Brief
Increased pressures on Californias water supply, including from population growth and intense periods of drought exacerbated by climate change, are …
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 …
Performance of Two Bioswales on Urban Runoff Management
This study evaluated the effectiveness of two bioswales eight years after construction in Davis, California. An identically sized control bioswale …
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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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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 …
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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Informing watershed planning and policy in the Truckee River basin through stakeholder engagement, scenario development, and impact evaluation
In Informing watershed planning… Podolak et al. evaluate the water quality and water quantity impacts of stream andl and restoration …
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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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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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 …
Top 22 Benefits of Trees
This website, Top 22 Benefits of Trees, provides an overview of the top benefits provided by trees, which include, but …
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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Methods for Evaluating Temporal Groundwater Quality Data and Results of Decadal-Scale Changes in Chloride, Dissolved Solids, and Nitrate Concentrations in Groundwater in the United States, 19882010
Methods for Evaluating Temporal Groundwater Quality Data and Results of Decadal-Scale Changes in Chloride, Dissolved Solids, and Nitrate Concentrations in …
Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) Water Pollution Search
Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) Water Pollution Search is an online tool that allows users to search discharge monitoring …
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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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Stream Reach Assessment Tool
Stream Reach Assessment Tool is an online tool used to assess surface water quality within the Delaware River watershed. Through …
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) …
Impacts of desalination plant discharges on the marine environment: A critical review of published studies
Impacts of desalination plant discharges on the marine environment: A critical review of published studies provides a qualitative review of …
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 …
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 …
