Earlier this year, Gabe Watson and EmmaLi Tsai participated in a workshop hosted by Defenders of Wildlife to help researchers create better maps at the intersection of environmental justice and conservation. Decisions from the workshop resulted in this user guide & website, which walks users through a more collaborate and inclusive approach to conservation that considers biodiversity, climate change, and environmental justice. To put the framework and shared principles into practice, the guide also features a case study using the National Wildlife Refuge System to show where future land acquisition should be prioritized.
At the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), our goal is to advance ecological restoration at scale, yet permitting costs consume up to ⅓ of project budgets. We need money to go to nature, not paperwork. Over the past two years, EPIC has quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed policies and processes related to restoration project permitting. Here we provide a case study of adoption of e-permitting technology that ameliorated many permitting bottlenecks.
Tim Male, Executive Director of EPIC, co-wrote an article in Ecosystem Marketplace with Mariana Sarmiento and Charles Bedford on how to close the biodiversity finance gap.
How could Maryland legislators build a sandbox for nature to accelerate restoration?
The US Department of Agriculture has contracted at least seven RCPP projects that used performance-based payments to buy environmental outcomes. This report profiles their challenges and successes.
Sand County Foundation and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center evaluate the successes, challenges, and immediate opportunities for watershed partnerships in the Midwest.
A report on the progress of nine Iowa cities that have signed memoranda of understanding with the state Department of Natural Resources to establish watershed partnerships.
This report describes how to proliferate connections between point and nonpoint sources of nutrients to meet permit requirements and improve water quality.
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A New Era For Water Management: Harnessing GIS Innovations and Collaboration for a Resilient Future
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Mapping at the Intersection: Environmental Justice & Conservation
Earlier this year, Gabe Watson and EmmaLi Tsai participated in a workshop hosted by Defenders of Wildlife to help researchers create better maps at the intersection of environmental justice and conservation. Decisions from the workshop resulted in this user guide & website, which walks users through a more collaborate and inclusive approach to conservation that considers biodiversity, climate change, and environmental justice. To put the framework and shared principles into practice, the guide also features a case study using the National Wildlife Refuge System to show where future land acquisition should be prioritized.
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Joint Public Comment: The National Environmental Policy Act: Relevance to Open Government and Public Participation
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Joint Public Comment: Creation of the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council
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Report: Adopting Innovation at the US Forest Service
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Joint Public Comment on Phase 2 of the Environmental Justice Scorecard
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Public Comment: OSTP’s Environmental Justice, Science, and Data Research Plan
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Case Study: Revamping Water Quality Exchange
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Comment Letter on NOAA’s Equitable Climate Service Delivery RFI
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Delivering on Justice40: Perspectives from State Agency Staff
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Comment Letter on NEPA Implementing Regulations Phase 2
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Service Area Boundary Coalition Update
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Digital Service for the Planet Coalition Update
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Case Study: Leveraging Innovation to Achieve NEPA's Environmental Goals
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Case Study: Modernizing Restoration - Advancing restoration benefits tracking
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How Utilities Organize for Digital Innovation
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Comment Letter on the National Nature Assessment
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