A5047267779- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Water resources management and optimization
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Climate variability and models
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Bioenergy crop production and management
University of Minnesota
2015-2024
University of Minnesota System
2021-2022
Twin Cities Orthopedics
2014-2021
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
2017
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2017
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
2017
Cornell University
2017
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2016
Ecological Society of America
2016
Western University of Health Sciences
2016
The central challenge of the 21st century is to develop economic, social, and governance systems capable ending poverty achieving sustainable levels population consumption while securing life-support underpinning current future human well-being. Essential meeting this incorporation natural capital ecosystem services it provides into decision-making. We explore progress crucial gaps at frontier, reflecting upon 10 y since Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. focus on three key dimensions ongoing...
Despite broad recognition of the value goods and services provided by nature, existing tools for assessing valuing ecosystem often fall short needs expectations decision makers. Here we address one most important missing components in current toolbox: a comprehensive generalizable framework describing water quality-related services. Water quality is misrepresented as final service. We argue that it actually an contributor to many different services, from recreation human health. present...
Fresh water is distributed unevenly across the globe. Earth's 21 largest lakes hold ~2/3 of all global, liquid, surface, fresh and occupy diverse ecological social settings. We identified seven ecosystem services for which there were quantitative data most or these large lakes. Approximately 1.35 million tonnes fish are harvested per year from by commercial artisanal means, with approximately 95% this harvest coming African The support generation at least 62.2 GW power transportation 195...
Ecosystem characteristics and processes provide significant value to human health well-being, there is growing interest in quantifying those values. Of particular are water-related ecosystem services the incorporation of their into local regional decision making. This presents multiple challenges opportunities hydrologic-modeling community. To motivate advances water-resources research, we first present three common contexts that draw upon an ecosystem-service framework: scenario analysis,...
Nitrogen negatively affects health, climate, and water quality with costs that vary across space.
Inclusive wealth is a measure designed to address whether society on sustainable development trajectory. defined as the aggregate value of all capital assets. Increases in inclusive indicate an improved productive base capable supporting higher standard living future. To be truly inclusive, measures must include forms that contribute human well-being: capital, manufactured natural and social capital. Sustainability concerns have increased attention ways measuring We review various attempts...
Green infrastructure designed to address urban drainage and water quality issues is often deployed without full knowledge of potential unintended social, ecological, human health consequences. Though understood in their respective fields study, these diverse impacts are seldom discussed together a format by broader audience. This paper takes first step addressing that gap exploring tradeoffs associated with green practices manage stormwater including trees, ponds, filtration, infiltration,...
Mainstreaming of ecosystem service approaches has been proposed as one path toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, critics services question if the approach can account for multiple values ecosystems to diverse groups people, or aspects inter- and intra-generational justice. In particular, an often overlooks power dimensions capabilities that are core environmental This article addresses need greater guidance on incorporating justice into research practice. We point importance deep...
Lubchenco boldly called for a new "Social Contract Science," one that would acknowledge the scope and scale of environmental problems have "all scientists devote their energies talents to most pressing day in proportion importance."We were entering millennium, was worried scientific enterprise unprepared address challenges related climate change, pollution, health, technology.Here we are, 20 years later, our global only grown complexity urgency.Never before had such clear understanding...
AbstractMinneapolis has the twin distinctions of having one most highly rated park systems in United States and some pronounced racial disparities wealth homeownership. We argue that this coupling urban nature inequality was intentionally produced by city's real estate industry local government. Drawing on Mapping Prejudice's first complete metro-wide map covenants—clauses property deeds barring sale to anyone not considered white—we pair quantitative spatial analysis with archival research...
Research has demonstrated the impact of historic discriminatory mortgage lending (i.e., “redlining”) on distribution environmental benefits and burdens, while legacies other racially housing policies remain unexplored. Using a novel dataset racial covenants in Minneapolis its suburbs, first complete map for any U.S. city, we find significant positive association between covenant presence cooler temperatures, increased tree canopy, reduced impervious surface today. When compared to redlining,...
We evaluate the return on investment (ROI) from public land conservation in state of Minnesota, USA. use a spatially-explicit modeling tool, Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to estimate how changes cover (LULC), including acquisitions for conservation, influence joint provision value multiple ecosystem services. calculate ROI acquisition as ratio present services generated by cost conservation. For scenarios analyzed, carbon sequestration greatest benefits...
Journal Article Are investments to promote biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services aligned? Get access Stephen Polasky, Polasky * *University of Minnesota, e-mail: polasky@umn.edu; keel0041@umn.edu; kova0090@umn.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kris Johnson, Johnson Bonnie Keeler, Keeler Kent Kovacs, Kovacs Erik Nelson, Nelson Derric Pennington, Pennington Andrew J. Plantinga, Plantinga John Withey Review Economic Policy, Volume 28, Issue...
Loss of grassland from conversion to agriculture threatens water quality and other valuable ecosystem services. Here we estimate how land-use change affects the probability groundwater contamination by nitrate in private drinking wells. We find that 2007 2012 Southeastern Minnesota is expected increase future number wells exceeding 10 ppm nitrate-nitrogen 45% (from 888 1292 wells). link outputs well model cost estimates for remediation, replacement, avoidance behaviors potential economic...
Forest loss and degradation globally has resulted in declines multiple ecosystem services reduced habitat for biodiversity. landscape restoration offers an opportunity to mitigate these losses, conserve biodiversity, improve human well-being. As part of the Bonn Challenge, a global effort restore 350 million hectares deforested degraded land by 2030, over 30 countries have recently made commitments national forest restoration. In order achieve goals, decision-makers require information on...
Abstract The essential role of phosphorus (P) for agriculture and its impact on water quality has received decades research attention. However, the benefits sustainable P use management society due to downstream impacts multiple ecosystem services are rarely acknowledged. We propose a conceptual framework—the “phosphorus‐ecosystem cascade” ()—to integrate key processes functions that moderate relationship between released environment from human actions at distinct spatial temporal scales....