Policy Analysis & Science Assistance

Branch Chief: Rudolph Schuster

FORT scientists in the Policy Analysis and Science Assistance Branch conduct and integrate biological, social, economic, and institutional analyses of conservation policies and management practices to help land and resource managers make informed decisions and resolve resource management conflicts.

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Assessment of Ecosystem Services Values for the Central Everglades Planning Project

USGS economists Leslie Richardson, Lynne Koontz, and Chris Huber, in collaboration with the University of Florida and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), are conducting an assessment of the value of ecosystem services that will be affected by restoration activities in Florida's central Everglades. The team will monetize the value of select ecosystem services using benefit transfer methods, and provide a qualitative description of those services that cannot be valued monetarily due to a lack of existing data. This assessment will highlight gaps in the existing literature to efficiently guide future ecosystem service valuation research in the central Everglades, and will have significance for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan and its stakeholders, the general public, and USACE. This research effort is underway and was presented at the conference, "A Community on Ecosystem Services and Ecosystem Markets," held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 10-14 December 2012.

 Economic Analysis of Natural Resource Management Issues

 

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Publications:
 

 Summary of science, activities, programs and policies that influence the rangewide conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocerus urophasianus)

 Western Energy Citation Clearinghouse (v.1)

 Regional economic impacts of current and proposed management alternatives for Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

 Fort Collins Science Center, Policy Analysis and Science Assistance Branch

 Grazing effects on aboveground primary production and root biomass of earlyseral, mid-seral, and undisturbed semiarid grassland

 Disparate stakeholder management: the case of elk and bison feeding in Southern Greater Yellowstone

 The Watts Branch Restoration Project: restoring a stream, restoring a community-urban watershed restoration fosters community improvement

 Modeling sediment accumulation in North American playa wetlands in response to climate change, 1940–2100

 Contribution of arctic PRISM to monitoring western hemispheric shorebirds [foreword]

 Valuing Ecosystem Service Benefits of Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation

 

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