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Coastal and riverine ecosystems as adaptive flood defenses under a changing climate

Adaptation planning for flood risk forms a significant part of global climate change response. Engineering responses to higher water levels can be prohibitively costly. Several recent studies emphasize the potential role of ecosystems in flood protection as adaptive risk reduction measures while also contributing to carbon fixation. Here, we use a conceptual model study to illustrate the built-in adaptive capability of ecosystems to reduce a wide range of wave heights, occurring at different water levels, to a narrower range.

Ecology, economics, and engineering of nature-based coastal defenses

Increases in natural hazards from coastal storms, flooding, and sea-level rise create social, economic, and ecological risks of global significance. The proportion of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) annually exposed to tropical cyclones grew from 3.6 percent in the 1970s to 4.3 percent in the first decade of the 2000s. As a consequence, huge investments are increasingly being made in coastal hazard mitigation and climate adaptation. In recent climate negotiations, developed nations pledged $100 billion per year by 2020 to support mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.

Guidelines for coastal and marine ecosystem accounting: Incorporating the protective service values of coral reefs and mangroves in national wealth accounts

Presentation to World Bank regarding World Bank WAVES guidance note - "Guidelines for Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Accounting: Incorporating the Protective Service Values of Coral Reefs and Mangroves in National Wealth Accounts" June 2, year unknown

Coastal risk reduction: Integrating natural defenses into a sustainable coastal rick management framework

Guidelines to guide private sector practitioners and conservation planners on managing and restoring natural habitats for coastal protection (http://www.ch2m.com/newsroom/news/the-nature-conservancy-and-ch2m-publish-new-guidance-on-coastal-risk-reduction)

Guidelines for coastal and marine ecosystem accounting: Incorporating the protective service values of coral reefs and mangroves in national wealth accounts

The Guidance Note incorporates and acknowledges support in data, review and analysis from SNAP.

FishPath: Co-development of a fisheries management framework for data limited fisheries

symposium on €œco-development of science Society for Conservation Biology - North America Chapter meeting to be held in Madison, Wisconsin in July 2016

Training manual

A training manual describing the steps involved in assessing and managing data and capacity-limited fisheries, including how to use our SNAP framework and its associated caveats. NOT YET COMPLETED; but in progress integrating feedback from pilots

Co-development of science symposium

symposium on “co-development” of science

Ecological drought in the anthropocene

The Nature Conservancy's National Science Council

The Nature Conservancy's National Science Council and several Board members [February 2016]