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Land-Use Portfolio Modeler, Version 1.0
Natural hazards pose significant threats to the public safety and economic health of many communities throughout the world. Community leaders and decision-makers continually face the challenges of planning and allocating limited resources to invest in protecting their communities against catastrophic losses from natural-hazard events. Public efforts to assess community vulnerability and encourage
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Richard Taketa, Makiko Hong
Initial Results from a Study of Climatic Changes and the Effect on Wild Sheep Habitat in Selected Study Areas of Alaska
Climate change theorists have projected striking changes in local weather on earth due to increases in temperature. These predicted changes may cause melting glaciers and ice caps, rising sea levels, increasing desertification and other environmental changes which seem likely to affect presumed indicator species as harbingers of more significant changes. Wild sheep, even though they are one of the
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Edwin Pfeifer, Jana Ruhlman, Barry Middleton, Dennis Dye, Alex Acosta
Assessing societal vulnerability of U.S. Pacific Northwest communities to storm-induced coastal change
Progressive increases in storm intensities and extreme wave heights have been documented along the U.S. West Coast. Paired with global sea level rise and the potential for an increase in El Niño occurrences, these trends have substantial implications for the vulnerability of coastal communities to natural coastal hazards. Community vulnerability to hazards is characterized by the exposure, sensit
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Heather M. Baron, Nathan J. Wood, Peter Ruggerio, Jonathan Allan, Patrick Corcoran
Science in the Public Sphere: Greater Sage-grouse Conservation Planning from a Transdisciplinary Perspective
Integration of scientific data and adaptive management techniques is critical to the success of species conservation, however, there are uncertainties about effective methods of knowledge exchange between scientists and decisionmakers. The conservation planning and implementation process for Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; ) in the Mono Basin, Calif. region, was used as a case stud
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Alicia Torregrosa, Michael L. Casazza, Margaret R. Caldwell, Teresa A. Mathiasmeier, Peter M. Morgan, Cory T. Overton
Developing an ecosystem services online decision support tool to assess the impacts of climate change and urban growth in the Santa Cruz watershed: Where we live, work, and play
Using respective strengths of the biological, physical, and social sciences, we are developing an online decision support tool, the Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model (SCWEPM), to help promote the use of information relevant to water allocation and land management in a binational watershed along the U.S.-Mexico border. The SCWEPM will include an ES valuation system within a suite of li
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Laura M. Norman, Nita Tallent-Halsell, William Labiosa, Matt Weber, Amy McCoy, Katie Hirschboeck, James B. Callegary, Charles van Riper, Floyd Gray
Stakeholder perspectives on land-use strategies for adapting to climate-change-enhanced coastal hazards: Sarasota, Florida
Sustainable land-use planning requires decision makers to balance community growth with resilience to natural hazards. This balance is especially difficult in many coastal communities where planners must grapple with significant growth projections, the persistent threat of extreme events (e.g., hurricanes), and climate-change-driven sea level rise that not only presents a chronic hazard but also a
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Tim G. Frazier, Nathan Wood, Brent Yarnal
Influence of potential sea level rise on societal vulnerability to hurricane storm-surge hazards, Sarasota County, Florida
Although the potential for hurricanes under current climatic conditions continue to threaten coastal communities, there is concern that climate change, specifically potential increases in sea level, could influence the impacts of future hurricanes. To examine the potential effect of sea level rise on community vulnerability to future hurricanes, we assess variations in socioeconomic exposure in Sa
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Tim G. Frazier, Nathan Wood, Brent Yarnal, Denise H. Bauer
The South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model - A Map-Based Multicriteria Ecological, Economic, and Community Land-Use Planning Tool
The South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model (EPM) prototype is a regional land-use planning Web tool that integrates ecological, economic, and social information and values of relevance to decision-makers and stakeholders. The EPM uses a multicriteria evaluation framework that builds on geographic information system-based (GIS) analysis and spatially-explicit models that characterize important eco
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William B. Labiosa, Richard Bernknopf, Paul Hearn, Dianna Hogan, David Strong, Leonard Pearlstine, Amy M. Mathie, Anne M. Wein, Kevin Gillen, Susan Wachter
Irrigated areas of India derived from satellite sensors and national statistics: A way forward from GIAM experience
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Maji Amal Kumar, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Praveen Noojipady, G. Chandrakantha, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, Manohar Velpuri, Obi Reddy P. Gangalakunta
Remote sensing of global croplands for food security: Way forward
This book opens a new pathway for global mapping that is focused on a specific land use theme, such as irrigated or rain-fed croplands and classes within these themes. Since croplands use most of the water consumed by humans, specific knowledge of irrigated and rain-fed croplands will be critical for precise estimates of water use. At present and in the coming decades, irrigated and rain-fed cropl
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, John G. Lyon
Global irrigated area maps (GIAM) and statistics using remote sensing
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Y.J. Li, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Murali Krishna Gumma, Praveen Noojipady, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, Manohar Velpuri, Obi Reddy P. Gangalakunta
A history of irrigated areas of the world
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Xueliang L. Cai, Y.J. Li, Chandrashekhar M. Biradar, Praveen Noojipady, Venkateswarlu Dheeravath, Manohar Velpuri, Obi Reddy P. Gangalakunta