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 …
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 …
Measuring the success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems
Measuring the success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems examines how restoration can impact carbon sequestration and …
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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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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 …
The Marginal Economic Value of Streamflow From National Forests
The Marginal Economic Value of Streamflow From National Forests uses water markets to estimate the marginal value of streamflow in …
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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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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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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 …
Economics of Managed Aquifer Recharge
Economics of Managed Aquifer Recharge suggests methodology for performing a cost benefit analysis for aquifer recharge projects. They list the …
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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Conservation Gateway
The Conservation Gateway provides resources to support conservation practices in water management. The gateway provides a variety of resources from …
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 …
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 …
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) …
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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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 …
COMET-Planner
The COMET-Planner provides estimates of greenhouse gas emissions for specific agricultural conservation practices. The tool allows for farmers and managers …
Plant Community Composition and Biodiversity Patterns in Urban Parks of Portland, Oregon
Plant Community Composition and Biodiversity Patterns in Urban Parks of Portland, Oregon examines the correlations between park attributes and plant …
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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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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Recreation Use Values Database
The Recreation Use Values Database catalogs studies that place valuations on recreational activities and the species related to these activities. …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
An Equitable Water Future
An Equitable Water Future highlights the main challenges and main solutions in water equity in the United States. There are …