Putting people on the map improves the prioritization of ecosystem services

Keeler, Bonnie L.; Dalzell, B. J.; Gourevitch, Jesse D.; Hawthorne, Peter; Johnson, Kris; Noe, Ryan

doi:10.1002/fee.2004

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“…Recent disasters highlight the need for expanding these metrics by looking at the interaction between the biophysical dimensions of wildfire exposure (i.e. land tenure composition and parcel geometry, topography, fuel models, fire regimes, disturbances and past management effects), and the social dimensions of vulnerability (Keeler et al, 2019).…”

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Social vulnerability to large wildfires in the western USA

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Ager

Nielsen-Pincus

et al. 2019

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Federal land managers in the US can be informed with quantitative assessments of the social conditions of the populations affected by wildfires originating on their administered lands in order to incorporate and adapt their management strategy to achieve a more targeted prioritization of community wildfire protection investments. In addition, these assessments are valuable to socially vulnerable communities for quantifying their exposure to wildfires originating on adjacent land tenures. We assessed fire transmission patterns using fire behavior simulations to understand spatial variations across three diverse study areas (North-central Washington; Central California; and Northern New Mexico) to understand how different land tenures affect highly socially vulnerable populated places. Transboundary wildfire structure exposure was related to populations with limited adaptive capacity to absorb, recover and modify exposure to wildfires, estimated with the Social Vulnerability Index using US Census unit data (block groups). We found geographic heterogeneity in terms of land tenure composition and estimated fire exposure. Although high social vulnerability block groups covered small areas, they had high population and structure density and were disproportionately exposed per area burned by fire. Structure exposure originated primarily from three key land tenures (wildland-urban interface, private lands and national forests). Federal lands proportionately exposed, on an area basis, populated places with high social vulnerability, with fires ignited on Forest Service administered lands mostly affecting north-central Washington and northern New Mexico communities.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social vulnerability to large wildfires in the western USA

Palaiologou

Ager

Nielsen-Pincus

et al. 2019

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Recent work capturing the distribution of ecosystem service benefits has made important contributions to the incorporation of equity into ecosystem services research (e.g., Mandle et al 2015; Keeler et al 2019), but the labor and true costs of co‐producing ecosystem services, as well as the values and perspectives that motivate these actions, are generally not included in these analyses (Berbés‐Blázquez, González, and Pascual 2016; Zafra‐Calvo et al 2020). Accordingly, the current project, conceptualized as “Putting Suppliers on the Map,” aimed to create outreach and educational material to highlight the upstream activities critical to co‐producing the ecosystem services at the heart of water funds.…”

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“Putting Suppliers on the Map:” Centering Upstream Voices in Water Funds Outreach

Prado

Bremer

Nelson

et al. 2021

Contemporary Water Research

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As water funds and other watershed investment programs expand around the world, there is growing interest in designing equitable programs that provide both upstream and downstream benefits. While research demonstrates that diverse values underlie upstream participation, existing communication and outreach materials from non‐governmental organizations (NGOs), governments, development banks, and others tend to highlight the goals of downstream actors (e.g., improving water supply for cities), with little attention to upstream perspectives. We present a case study in response to this gap, where we collaborated with a water fund and a river users association in Colombia to co‐produce a website entitled “Putting Suppliers on the Map” in which interviews and photography illuminate the perspectives of upstream participants and the intermediary organization. The website offers multiple lessons for communication and environmental education in water funds by shifting focus to the motivations of upstream participants, including trust‐building among upstream and downstream participants via intermediary actors, and informing downstream water users of the essential role of these processes for program success. Analyzing the website testimonials, we show that the vast majority of participants were motivated not only by overlapping instrumental and relational values associated with conservation, but also by a variety of personal and community goals. We found that the largest barrier to participation over time was the need to build trust between the water fund and rural communities and to align water fund goals with participants' motivations. By making visible the motivations and challenges of upstream actors, the website reverses the standard direction of environmental education (in which high‐level actors or downstream groups educate upstream residents). In‐so‐doing, the website aims to help downstream actors envision more productive and equitable ways of interacting with upstream participants.

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“…Such costs depend on land value, productivity, and crop price, which vary during the lifetime of a wetland (Hyberg et al 2015). The generic upstream collocation of wetlands does not allow a thorough analysis of their effects on water quality and costs, which is beyond the scope of this work (see Keeler et al 2019 on economic efficiency of BMPs allocation). Nonetheless, wetlands construction is commonly considered as a BMP for water quality improvement and the results highlight the potential for significant peak flood reduction.…”

Section: Wetlands Scenariomentioning

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Flood Risk Reduction from Agricultural Best Management Practices

Antolini

Tate

Dalzell

et al. 2019

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Research Impact Statement: Agricultural best management practices (BMPs) can reduce flood risk, providing a co-benefit to nutrient reduction.ABSTRACT: Best management practices (BMPs) play an important role in improving impaired water quality from conventional row crop agriculture. In addition to reducing nutrient and sediment loads, BMPs such as fertilizer management, reduced tillage, and cover crops could alter the hydrology of agricultural systems and reduce surface water runoff. While attention is devoted to the water quality benefits of BMPs, the potential cobenefits of flood loss reduction are often overlooked. This study quantifies the effects of selected commonly applied BMPs on expected flood loss to agricultural and urban areas in four Iowa watersheds. The analysis combines a watershed hydrologic model, hydraulic model outputs, and a loss estimation model to determine relationships between hydrologic changes from BMP implementations and annual economic flood loss. The results indicate a modest reduction in peak discharge and economic loss, although loss reduction is substantial when urban centers or other high-value assets are located downstream in the watershed. Among the BMPs, wetlands, and cover crops reduce losses the most. The research demonstrates that watershed-scale implementation of agricultural BMPs could provide benefits of flood loss reduction in addition to water quality improvements.(

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Putting people on the map improves the prioritization of ecosystem services

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

Social vulnerability to large wildfires in the western USA

Social vulnerability to large wildfires in the western USA

“Putting Suppliers on the Map:” Centering Upstream Voices in Water Funds Outreach

Flood Risk Reduction from Agricultural Best Management Practices

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