A5090693835- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Marine animal studies overview
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Cambodian History and Society
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Smart Grid Security and Resilience
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Stanford University
2010-2024
University of Washington
2023
Smithsonian Institution
2023
Healthy Start
2023
Arkema (France)
2023
Palo Alto Institute
2012-2022
Recent high-profile efforts have called for integrating ecosystem-service values into important societal decisions, but there are few demonstrations of this approach in practice. We quantified to help the largest private landowner Hawaii, Kamehameha Schools, design a land-use development plan that balances multiple and public on its North Shore land holdings (Island O’ahu) ∼10,600 ha. used InVEST software tool evaluate environmental financial implications seven planning scenarios...
Background As the global human population grows and its consumption patterns change, additional land will be needed for living space agricultural production. A critical question facing society is how to meet growing demands space, food, fuel, other materials while sustaining ecosystem services biodiversity [1]. Methodology/Principal Findings We spatially allocate two scenarios of 2000 2015 areal change in urban cropland at grid cell-level measure impact this on provision biodiversity. The...
Inclusion of ecosystem services (ES) information into national-scale development and climate adaptation planning has yet to become common practice, despite demand from decision makers. Identifying where ES originate whom the benefits flow–under current future conditions–is especially critical in rapidly developing countries, risk loss is high. Here, using Myanmar as a case study, we assess how ecosystems provide key country's people infrastructure. We model supply for sediment retention,...
Abstract Globally, rising seas threaten massive numbers of people and significant infrastructure. Adaptation strategies increasingly incorporate nature-based solutions. New science can illuminate where these solutions are appropriate in urban environments what benefits they provide to people. Together with stakeholders San Mateo County, California, USA, we co-developed support adaptation planning. We created six guiding principles shape planning, summarized vulnerability sea-level rise...
Corporations and other multinational institutions are increasingly looking to evaluate their innovation procurement decisions over a range of environmental criteria, including impacts on ecosystem services according the spatial configuration activities landscape. We have developed spatially explicit approach modeled hypothetical corporate supply chain decision representing contrasting patterns land-use change in four regions globe. This illustrates effect introducing considerations analysis...
Irrigated agriculture has grown rapidly over the last 50 years, helping food production keep pace with population growth, but also leading to significant habitat and biodiversity loss globally. Now, in some regions, land degradation overtaxed water resources mean historical levels may need be reduced. We demonstrate how analytically supported planning for restoration stressed agricultural landscapes can recover create co-benefits during transitions sustainability. apply our approach...
In this study, we evaluated the water quality and quantity impacts of five restoration land protection scenarios in Truckee River watershed, context regulatory goals. We used spatially explicit biophysical models to create with targeted places where greatest supply benefits could be realized. quantified how these would impact sediment load, nitrogen phosphorous annual yield hydrologic models. The included a "Business as usual" based on existing conservation plans (2015–2020) four additional...
Globally, most restoration efforts focus on re-creating the physical structure (flora or features) of a target ecosystem with assumption that other components will follow. Here we investigate by documenting biogeographical patterns in an important invertebrate taxon, parasitoid wasp family Ichneumonidae, recently reforested Hawaiian landscape. Specifically, test influence (1) planting configurations (corridors versus patches), (2) vegetation age, (3) distance from mature native forest, (4)...
Abstract Existing approaches to evaluating companies on sustainability-related issues include limited accounting of impacts nature and its contributions human well-being. Here we present an approach for quantifying the direct companies’ physical assets based global maps eight ecosystem service biodiversity metrics. We apply this a set over 2000 global, publicly traded with 580,000 mapped find that in utility, real estate, materials, financial sectors have largest average, substantial...
Riparian buffers—forests along rivers—generate many essential ecosystem services, and their protection restoration are the focus of policy efforts. Costa Rica is a global leader in this regard, where legislative executive frameworks work concert to conserve forests that deliver public benefits such as water quality carbon storage both locally globally. Yet implementation enforcement an urgent challenge, could benefit from high-resolution targeting with quantitative understanding expected...
We develop an integrated assessment model for spatially simulating water quality and social welfare from linked ecosystem services that extends prior modeling by incorporating a broader suite of pollutants than conventionally measured factors like phosphorus nitrogen. Beyond demonstrating the feasibility such model, we provide guidance on impact omitting or holding constant relevant their effect estimates willingness to pay. Applying Narragansett Bay, find recent wastewater treatment...
Abstract Tourism plays a vital role in both economic development and depending on the scale, it can also aid environmental conservation. planning often considers culture-based nature-based tourism separately, failing to recognize synergies between them, with potential market locations as biocultural destinations. Using Colombia case study, we created metrics of taxonomic biological diversity measured by vertebrate species richness (including birds, mammals, freshwater fishes, reptiles,...
Authors: Lisa Mandle1, Andrew Shea2,3, Emily Soth1, Jesse A. Goldstein1, Stacie Wolny1, Jeffrey R. Smith4,5, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer6,7, Richard P. Sharp6,8, Mayur Patel1AffiliationsNatural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USAGlobal Sustainable Finance, Morgan Stanley, New York, NY 10036Current affiliation: Frontier & Stripe Climate, Stripe, South San Francisco, 94080Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Jersey 08544High Meadows Environmental...
Abstract Ecotourism plays a vital role in both economic development and depending on the scale, it can also aid environmental conservation. planning often considers culture‐based nature‐based tourism separately, failing to recognize synergies between them, with potential market locations as biocultural destinations. Using Colombia case study, we created metrics of taxonomic biological diversity measured by vertebrate species richness (including birds, mammals, freshwater fishes, reptiles...