Resilient Coastal Communities
Innovations in Climate Resilient Coastal Zones, Belize
Working to identify and test new data technologies for scaling the use of information on climate change, coastal processe, and ecosystem services into Integrated Coastal Zone Management across the Caribbean and Latin America.Collaborators: IDB, NGOs, academics and governments of The Bahamas, Mexico, and Belize.
Coastal Habitats & Adaptive Planning, California Coast, USA
Incorporating natural capital in climate adaptation planning in Monterey, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, and Marin Counties. Developed California coastline viewer tool to explore coastal habitat, sea-level rise, and nature-based solutions: http://marineapps.naturalcapitalproject.org/california/index.html. Collaborator: Center for Ocean Solutions.
Land-Use Decision Making & Water Quality, Narragansett Bay, RI, USA
Conducting stakeholder engagement and modeling of land use decisions on surface and marine water quality. Project goals include estimating the recreational and non-use value impacts of future land use scenarios in a large watershed that crosses State boundaries and providing guidance to prioritize conservation activity. Collaborators: Massachusetts Audubon, University of Rhode Island.
Alternative Climate Adaptation Options (Placencia, Belize)
Project partners include NatCap at Stanford and University of Minnesota; Belizean government: Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute (CZMAI) and Belize's National Climate Change Office; WWF-Belize, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pew Charitable Trusts, Silvestrum Climate Associates. Funding: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Google Foundation, WWF-US
Innovations in Climate Resilient Coastal Zones (The Bahamas)
NatCap is co-producing new science to support the Government of The Bahamas (Office of the Prime Minister and other Ministries) in conducting spatial development planning for greater ecosystem support of livelihoods and climate resilience. As a result of this planning, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is developing ecosystem service performance indicators for loans for improving management of marine protected areas and green infrastructure projects. Project partners include The Bahamian Office of the Prime Minister, Inter-American Development Bank, and University of The Bahamas.
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Restoration, Gulf of Mexico, USA
Worked to integrate ecosystem service models for coastal habitats into an optimization framework to understand where proposed restoration and conservation projects related to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill would achieve multiple recreation and coastal risk reduction goals. Partners: The Nature Conservancy, Stanford.
Innovations in Climate Resilient Coastal Zones, Mexico
Working to identify and test new data technologies for scaling the use of information on climate change, coastal processe, and ecosystem services into Integrated Coastal Zone Management across the Caribbean and Latin America. Partners: Stanford. Collaborators: IDB, NGOs, academics and governments of The Bahamas, Mexico, and Belize.
Pages
