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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Triple Bottom Line Guidelines
The Triple Bottom Line Guidelines from Melbourne Water outlines a process of including triple bottom line analysis into new water …
Hydro-economic models: Concepts, design, applications, and future prospects
Hydro-economic models: Concepts, design, applications, and future prospects discusses the role of economic valuation in water demand. The paper analyzed …
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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) …
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 …
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 …
Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA), Collaborative Water Resources Planning for an Uncertain Future
Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) is a methodology for water resources planning and management when significant uncertainty exists about …
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 …
NRCS Practice Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Carbon Sequestration
The NRCS Practice Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Carbon Sequestration ranks effectiveness of greenhouse gas reduction techniques for …
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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 …
COMET-Planner
The COMET-Planner provides estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for specific agricultural conservation practices. The tool allows for farmers and managers …
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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EPA Tools and Resources Webinar Series
The EPA Tools and Resources Webinar Series provides a monthly update on EPA tools and resources available to help inform …
Water Funds Toolbox
The Water Fund Toolbox provides a wide variety of resources, case studies, tools, etc. for groups seeking to create or …
Landscape Performance Series
The Landscape Performance Series is a compilation of case studies, fact sheets, and a Benefits Toolkit, to support sustainable landscape …
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
NatCap Checker
The NatCap Checker is a tool by the Natural Capital Coalition, created to help organizations make more informed decisions that …
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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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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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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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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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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