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Why We Do It

2 kids hiking Sustainability means managing natural resources for future generations. Credit: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS.
Today's natural resource managers must make effective decisions about broad-scale ecosystem processes occurring across the landscape, with complex interactions, numerous competing stakeholder demands, and highly uncertain outcomes. The USGS is uniquely positioned to address complex issues with expertise in science areas that span energy, minerals, environmental health, ecosystem change, land use, climate change, hydrology, and natural hazards. The Center provides a cross-cutting framework to link the USGS mission areas to natural resource decision making. It also works with partner agencies to incorporate USGS science into their management of natural resources, and to prioritize USGS science on the basis of their resource management needs.		  

Projects

The Center's ongoing projects in support of science for decision making include field studies, cooperative agreements, books, articles, and conferences.

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Publications

Williams, B.K., and E.D. Brown. 2012.  Adaptive Management: The U.S. Department of the Interior Applications Guide. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior.



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Presentations

sdcUSGS Science and Decisions Center - Advancing science-based decisions about natural resource management

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Liaison Activities

Advisory Committee, 12th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment, National Council for Science and the Environment, Carl Shapiro and Ken Williams, members.

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Applications in the Field

This page higlights applications now being implemented in the field. These applications are directly connected to thematic concerns of the Center.

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