Using Applied Science for Effective Watershed Restoration and Coho Salmon Recovery in Coastal Oregon Streams

Wright, Emily C.; Souder, Jon A.

doi:10.1525/cse.2017.000489

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“…Habitat restoration for threatened species (e.g. for coho salmon; Wright & Souder, ) and landscape restoration measures for whole‐ecosystem recovery, as in the Penobscot River (Watson, Coghlan, Zydlewski, Hayes, & Kiraly, ), have a long tradition in North America (Bernhardt et al, ) and globally (Wohl, Lane, & Wilcox, ). Optimization‐based systematic approaches to restoration planning are not as established as their counterparts in conservation science, though.…”

Section: Advancing Conservation Prioritizations To Inform Integrated mentioning

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Toward process‐based conservation prioritizations for freshwater ecosystems

Linke

Hermoso

Januchowski‐Hartley

2019

Aquatic Conservation

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Over the last two decades, systematic conservation planning has been increasingly applied in terrestrial and marine systems. The approach has traditionally been lagging in freshwater environments, partly because considering unique ecological processes, such as connectivity and propagation of threats along river networks, is a key factor for conservation success in freshwater landscapes. This review highlights advances in freshwater planning in the last decade, but also discusses areas in need of increased efforts. Including riverine connectivity and disturbances are largely resolved topics. Both processes have been included in major conservation planning software packages and applied globally. Theoretical advances to connectivity in wetlands and groundwater systems have started to appear, but no encompassing framework has emerged. Spatial solutions to conservation planning in lakes do not yet exist. Some headway has been made when dealing with functional connectivity and genetic processes. For the latter, approaches have been developed to deal with cryptic biodiversity and to investigate the adequacy of conservation plans to include genetic diversity. Functional connectivity has been included in conservation plans in ephemeral waterscapes, and initial steps have been made to include migratory species in conservation prioritizations. Conservation planning in socio‐ecological landscapes is catching up with biophysical prioritizations. Multiple protection tiers have been realized in river conservation planning frameworks, and freshwater scientists are leading the charge in both multi‐objective planning and in including direct functional responses. We conclude that tight integration between ecological sciences and optimization approaches is needed to further process‐based conservation planning.

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Section: Advancing Conservation Prioritizations To Inform Integrated mentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward process‐based conservation prioritizations for freshwater ecosystems

Linke

Hermoso

Januchowski‐Hartley

2019

Aquatic Conservation

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Pay-as-you-go LPG supports sustainable clean cooking in Kenyan informal urban settlement, including during a period of COVID-19 lockdown

Shupler

O’Keefe²,

Puzzolo

et al. 2020

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Approximately 2.8 billion people rely on polluting cooking fuels (e.g. wood, kerosene), exposing them to health-damaging household air pollution. A key access barrier to clean cooking fuels (e.g. liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)) is affordability. By enabling households to pay in small increments, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) LPG could help promote clean cooking, and support continued LPG use through periods of economic downturn. We investigate the ability of PAYG LPG to sustain access to clean cooking from January 2018-June 2020, including during COVID-19 lockdown (March-June 2020) in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We utilize novel PAYG LPG smart meter data to document cooking/spending patterns from 426 PAYG LPG customers and semi-structured interviews among a subset of seven households. Objective cooking pattern comparisons are made to those cooking with full 6kg cylinder LPG and polluting fuel users from 23 households in peri-urban Eldoret in western Kenya, using stove monitoring data. Customers’ average PAYG LPG consumption was 0.97 kg/capita/month (11.6 kg/capita/year) prior to COVID-19 lockdown. Despite adverse economic impacts of the lockdown, 95% of households continued using PAYG LPG, and consumption increased to 1.22 kg/capita/month (March-June 2020). Daily cooking events using PAYG LPG increased by 60% (1.07 events/day (pre-lockdown) to 1.72 events/day (lockdown)). In contrast, among seven households purchasing full 6kg cylinder LPG in Eldoret, average days/month using LPG declined by 75% (17 to four days) during COVID-19 lockdown. Median PAYG LPG payment frequency doubled (from every 8 days to every 4 days) during lockdown, while average payment amount was nearly halved (336 Kenyan Shillings (KSh)/US$3.08 to 179 KSh/US$1.64).Interviewed customers reported numerous benefits of PAYG LPG beyond fuel affordability, including safety, time savings, cylinder delivery and user-friendliness. PAYG LPG helped sustain clean cooking during COVID-19 lockdown, possibly averting increases in polluting cooking fuel use and associated household air pollution exposures.Graphical AbstractHighlightsFirst study to report long-term cooking/spending patterns using PAYG LPG smart meter data95% of 301 active PAYG LPG customers in February 2020 continued to use the fuel during COVID-19 lockdownDaily cooking events using PAYG LPG increased by 60% during COVID-19 lockdownMedian payment frequency increased 50%, while single payment amount decreased 50% during lockdownThree-quarters of PAYG LPG households in this study were first time LPG users

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Using Applied Science for Effective Watershed Restoration and Coho Salmon Recovery in Coastal Oregon Streams

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

Toward process‐based conservation prioritizations for freshwater ecosystems

Toward process‐based conservation prioritizations for freshwater ecosystems

Pay-as-you-go LPG supports sustainable clean cooking in Kenyan informal urban settlement, including during a period of COVID-19 lockdown

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