Webinar - Valuing Watersheds
Watershed Valuation: A Closer Look
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:00-3:00 pm PST
Presenters:
Dr. Rosalind Bark - Resource Ecological Specialist, CSIRO Ecosystem Services
Shawn B. Komlos, P.G. - Physical Scientist, US Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources
Rowan Schmidt - Research Analyst, Earth Economics
Dr. Holly Hartmann - Director, Arid Lands Information Center, University of Arizona/CLIMAS
Dr. Kiyomi Morino - Research Associate, University of Arizona
Description:
Join the Academy’s first extended webinar taking a closer look at how to value watersheds and the services they provide to downstream users.
Investment in watersheds expands the portfolio of risk management options available to water utilities as they plan for the effects of climate change on their water systems. Implementing a watershed valuation study informs the structure of, and determine possible sources of funding for, ongoing watershed investment programs. Watershed valuation helps answer some of the questions of what services watersheds provide, and how to account for them – for example, what are the costs of providing those services through some other mechanism or what costs can be avoided by investing in watersheds?
Dr. Rosalind Bark returns to discuss the recent valuation of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. Rowan Schmidt, Earth Economics, will share his experience with ecosystem services valuation and cost benefit analysis. Shawn Komlos, US Army Corps of Engineers, will give an overview of the Institute for Water Resources Planning Suite tool, which conducts cost effectiveness and incremental cost analyses.
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