From ash pond to Riverside Wetlands: Making the business case for engineered natural technologies
From ash pond to Riverside Wetlands: Making the business case for engineered natural technologies applies a nature valuation framework to …
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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 …
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 …
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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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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Recreation Use Values Database
The Recreation Use Values Database catalogs studies that place valuations on recreational activities and the species related to these activities. …
Wellspring: Source Water Resilience and Climate Adaptation
Wellspring: Source Water Resilience and Climate Adaptation contributes to the evolving discussions connected to source water protection, risk, resilience, and …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
The environmental benefits of water recycling and reuse
The environmental benefits of water recycling and reuse presents on the links between water reuse and sustainable water management through …
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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 …
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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Thermal performance of extensive green roofs in cold climates
In this study, the performance of two extensive green roofs located in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada was monitored. …
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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 …
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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Green Cities: Good Health
Green Cities: Good Health is an online compilation and synthesis of research related to urban green spaces and human health …
Neighborhood greenspace and health in a large urban center
This study links tree density in an urban center (Toronto, Canada) to results of a health survey using statistical methods. …
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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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The estimated impact of California’s urban water conservation mandate on electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
In The estimated impact of California’s urban water conservation mandate on electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, Spang et al. …
Embedded Energy in Water Studies 1, 2 and 3
CPUCs Embedded Energy in Water Studies provide a California statewide assessment of energy use by the water sector and energy …
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 …
The Green Edge: How Commercial Property Investment in Green Infrastructure Creates Value
This report explores the range of economic benefits that accrue to commercial property owners (including owners of multifamily residential buildings) …
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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 …
Seawater desalination and serum magnesium concentrations in Israel
Seawater desalination and serum magnesium concentrations in Israel examines the impact of drinking desalinated water on body magnesium levels in …
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Desalinated seawater supply and all-cause mortality in hospitalized acute myocardial infarction patients from the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey 2002-2013
Desalinated seawater supply and all-cause mortality in hospitalized acute myocardial infarction patients from the Acute Coronary Syndrome Israeli Survey 2002-2013 …
Achieving Resilience through Water Recycling in Peri-Urban Agriculture
Achieving Resilience through Water Recycling in Peri-Urban Agriculture examines water recycling for agricultural use in the peri-urban regions of Western …
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Relevance and Benefits of Urban Water Reuse in Tourist Areas
Relevance and Benefits of Urban Water Reuse in Tourist Areas presents a case study on factors that influenced the implementation …
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Envision Project Awards Map
Envision Project Awards map contains interactive case studies of projects from across the globe that have received Envision awards for …
Vision and GIS Case Studies
Vision and GIS Case Studies presents sixteen case studies that utilized the Trust for Public LandÂ’s Vision and GIS service. …
Water Reuse Project in Virginia Providing Multiple Benefits
Water Reuse Project in Virginia Providing Multiple Benefits provides an example of an effective water reuse project implemented in the …
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OneWaterSF
OneWaterSF is an integrated systems approach adopted by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) that aims to provide greater …
Leveraging Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture via Desalination: Evidence from a Macro-Data Case Study in Israel
Leveraging Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture via Desalination: Evidence from a Macro-Data Case Study in Israel examines the effects of desalinated water …
Association between exposure to desalinated sea water and ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer; A population-based study in Israel
Association between exposure to desalinated sea water and ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer; A population-based study in …
Water conservation benefits of urban heat mitigation
Water conservation benefits of urban heat mitigation examines urban heat mitigation strategies, such as cool roofs, and the impacts on …
Climatic consequences of adopting drought-tolerant vegetation over Los Angeles as a response to California drought
Climatic consequences of adopting drought tolerant vegetation over Los Angeles as a response to California drought utilized a regional climate …