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AGree on Collaborative Watershed and Landscape Management
Last Friday the 13th World Water Week came to a close, having brought experts together to explore cooperation and partnership in issues related to water. A recent report on watershed management in the...
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Landscapes as a Matter of National Security
By Bruce Beard and Stephanie Hertz, Texas A&M University For integrated landscape management, we stress cross-sectoral collaboration and inter-ministerial coordination. But sometimes partnerships...
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Mapping to Make Decisions: Evolution of Ecosystem Services Assessment and Tools
By Ken Bagstad, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences & Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, Colorado, USA Healthy ecosystems provide many benefits – from food and clean water to flood...
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One Watershed at a Time: Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin
As we saw on Monday, the measuring, valuing, and mapping of ecosystem services has progressed in recent years, and new tools are emerging that can help decision makers account for the benefits...
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A New Approach from USAID: Nature, Wealth and Power 2.0
By Kedar Mankad and Christopher Planicka, EcoAgriculture Partners On January 27th, 2014, USAID launched a second version of their framework for natural resource management, Nature Wealth and Power 2.0...
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The Farm Bill: Crossing the Rural-Urban Divide
This week, the World Urban Forum offers an opportunity to look at the ways in which challenges and opportunities in cities are linked to those in rural areas. National policy can address (or...
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Close to Home: Exploring Three of Virginia’s Working Landscapes
This blog often focuses on the geographies and management techniques of faraway (from our headquarters in Washington, DC) lands like the Eastern High Atlas of Morocco or Northern Tanzania’s culturally...
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Growth Scenarios and Conservation Trade-offs in the US-Mexico Borderlands
By Miguel L. Villarreal and Laura M. Norman, United States Geological Survey Developing and interpreting alternative future land-use scenarios is an effective way to engage communities in local and...
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Grass, Soil, Hope: A Story About Carbon Country
By Courtney White, Quivira Coalition This is the story of how I came into Carbon Country. I’m a former archaeologist and Sierra Club activist who became a dues-paying member of the New Mexico Cattle...
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Stewardship in the Southwest Borderlands
By Molly McCormick, Borderlands Restoration, Patagonia, AZ Imagine yourself walking in the Sonoran Desert grasslands of Southeast Arizona, USA. It’s monsoon season—a time when thunderheads bring quick...
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