Developing an Ecosystem Services Online Decision Support Tool to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Growth in the Santa Cruz Watershed; Where We Live, Work, and Play

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Norman, Laura
Tallent-Halsell, Nita
Labiosa, William
Weber, Matt
McCoy, Amy
Hirschboeck, Katie
Callegary, James
van Riper, Charles
Gray, Floyd
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Office of Arid Lands Studies, The University of Arizona
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona
Issue Date
2010-07-09
Keywords
arid lands
climate change
decision support tool
drought
drylands
ecosystem portfolio model
ecosystem services
environmental justice
socio-ecologic vulnerability

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Norman, L.; Tallent-Halsell, N.; Labiosa, W.; Weber, M.; McCoy, A.; Hirschboeck, K.; Callegary, J.; Van Riper, C., III; Gray, F. Developing an Ecosystem Services Online Decision Support Tool to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Growth in the Santa Cruz Watershed; Where We Live, Work, and Play. Sustainability 2010, 2, 2044-2069. https://doi.org/10.3390/su2072044.
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MDPI AG
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Sustainability
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http://hdl.handle.net/10150/676857
DOI
10.3390/su2072044
Abstract
Using respective strengths of the biological, physical, and social sciences, we are developing an online decision support tool, the Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model (SCWEPM), to help promote the use of information relevant to water allocation and land management in a binational watershed along the U.S.-Mexico border. The SCWEPM will include an ES valuation system within a suite of linked regional driver-response models and will use a multicriteria scenario-evaluation framework that builds on GIS analysis and spatially-explicit models that characterize important ecological, economic, and societal endpoints and consequences that are sensitive to climate patterns, regional water budgets, and regional LULC change in the SCW.
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en
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2071-1050
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