A Path Forward forCalifornia’s FreshwaterEcosystems
A Path Forward for California’s Freshwater Ecosystems makes the case for shifting Endangered Species Act implementation from the species to …
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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. …
Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program
Building and Measuring Community Resilience uses a consensus study to examine how communities could become more resilient in the face …
Green Infrastructure Evaluation Framework
The Green Infrastructure Evaluation Framework allows for people planning green infrastructure projects to identify and systematically calculate project benefits. Step …
The contribution of constructed green infrastructure to urban biodiversity: A synthesis and meta-analysis
The contribution of constructed green infrastructure to urban biodiversity: A synthesis and meta-analysis examines efficacy of green infrastructure in improving …
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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Water for Wilderness Areas: Instream Flow Needs, Protection, and Economic Value
Water for Wilderness Areas: Instream Flow Needs, Protection, and Economic Value reviews literature to examine the needs of wilderness for …
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Conservation Gateway
The Conservation Gateway provides resources to support conservation practices in water management. The gateway provides a variety of resources from …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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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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An Equitable Water Future
An Equitable Water Future highlights the main challenges and main solutions in water equity in the United States. There are …
Landscape Performance Series
The Landscape Performance Series is a compilation of case studies, fact sheets, and a Benefits Toolkit, to support sustainable landscape …
Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review
Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review formulates a conceptual framework of associations …
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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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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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 …
Nature and Health
This article presents the state of knowledge with regards to human health and well-being from contact with nature. The article …
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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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 …
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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Health Lands and Healthy Economies website
This is the landing page for Sonoma County Ag + Open Space Health Lands & Healthy Economies program. This website …
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 …
Urban Nature for Human Health and Well-Being
Urban Nature for Human Health and Well-Being summarizes the most recent research on connections between human health and natural urban …
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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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 …
Climate information? Embedding climate futures within temporalities of California water management
Climate information? Embedding climate futures within temporalities of California water management analyzes the use of climate change information in water …
Progress Toward Establishing a National Assessment of Water Availability and Use
Progress Toward Establishing a National Assessment of Water Availability and Use discusses the need for a National Water Census within …
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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) …
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 …
Combining multi-attribute utility and geographic information for boundary decisions: An application to park planning
Combining multi-attribute utility and geographic information for boundary decisions: An application to park planning provides a framework for inclusion of …
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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Green Infrastructure & Health Guide
Green Infrastructure & Health Guide provides the tools, resources, and evidence for the connections between green infrastructure (GI) and human …
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 …
An Analysis of the Energy Intensity of Water in California: Providing a Basis for Quantification of Energy Savings from Water System Improvements
An Analysis of the Energy Intensity of Water in California: Providing a Basis for Quantification of Energy Savings from Water …
One Water Roadmap: The Sustainable Management of Life’s Most Essential Resource
One Water Roadmap: The Sustainable Management of Life’s Most Essential Resource provides a comprehensive “One Water” framework for the United …
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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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