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Ecosystem Service Market Development: The Role and Opportunity for Finance

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources, Lurie, Sue, Duncan, Sally, Ecosystem Economics, and Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council
Abstract:: This report is laid out as a progressive exploration of how the economics of ES production interacts with finance, broadly construed, in actual credit transactions. The inquiry proceeds in several steps. First, the economics of ecosystem services production is explored to provide critical context for potential financing approaches. This section...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Hartwell and Bruce Aylward Ecosystem Economics LLC Sue Lurie and Sally Duncan Institute of Natural

An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and Highway Planning Volume 2

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources, NatureServe, Parametrix, CH2M HILL, and Transposition Research Board of the National Academies
Abstract:: This report is intended to help transportation and environmental professionals apply ecological principles early in the planning and programming process of highway capacity improvements to inform later environmental reviews and permitting. Ecological principles consider cumulative landscape, water resources, and habitat impacts of planned infrastructure actions, as well as the localized...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: highway safety, renewal, reliability, and capacity An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation

Expressing Oregon environmental benchmarks in ecological terms: recommendations to the Oregon progress board

Creator:: Salwasser, Hal, Norris, Logan A. (Logan Allen), Nicholas, Jay, Institute for Natural Resources, Oregon State University, and Oregon Water Enhancement Board
Abstract:: A multidisciplinary team of scientists (Appendix 1) examined 10 of the 16 environmental benchmarks that are tracked by the Oregon Progress Board. The intent of the environmental benchmarks is to provide a fair assessment of the status and trends of Oregon's environmental health. The scientists were asked to clarify benchmark...
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: Benchmarks as a whole are intended to incorporate elements of ecological, economic, and social

Financing Ecosystem Service Markets: Issues and Opportunities

Creator:: Aylward, Bruce, Hartwell, Ray, Lurie, Susan, Duncan, Sally, Institute for Natural Resources, and Ecosystem Economics, LLC
Abstract:: INR’s long-term goal with this and other projects is to help revitalize rural economies and contribute to rural sustainability, while increasing ecosystem restoration and thoughtfully developing ecosystem services markets. To assist in meeting these goals, this project aims to understand and overcome a significant hurdle on the supply side of...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Hartwell Ecosystem Economics LLC Sue Lurie and Sally Duncan Institute of Natural Resources Oregon

Financing mechanisms that advance ecosystem service markets and promote rural sustainability

Creator:: Institute for Natural Resources, Lurie, Sue, Duncan, Sally, Ewing, Amy, Ecosystem Economics, and Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council
Abstract:: Ecosystem services markets represent potential revenue streams for small- and medium-scale rural agricultural and forest producers, many of whom have faced significant economic downturns over the past several decades. Demand for ecosystem services (ES) in the form of investments by public agencies, mitigation funds from regulated entities, and voluntary payments...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Economics LLC The Economic Benefits of Ecosystems

A quantitative wildfire risk assessment using a modular approach of geostatistical clustering and regionally distinct valuations of assets—A case study in Oregon

Creator:: Schmidt, Andres, Leavell, Daniel, Punches, John, Rocha Ibarra, Marco A., Kagan, James S., Creutzburg, Megan, McCune, Myrica, Salwasser, Janine, Walter, Cara, and Berger, Carrie
Abstract:: The intensity and scale of wildfires has increased throughout the Pacific Northwest in recent decades, especially within the last decade, destroying vast amounts of valuable resources and assets. This trend is predicted to remain or even magnify due climate change, growing population, increased housing density. Furthermore, the associated stress of...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: ecological and socio- economic conditions. Our study focuses on six different Fire Service Areas covering

Salmon anchor habitats in Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests, Oregon : science, policy, economics ; an annotated bibliography

Creator:: Behan, Jeff and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: This annotated bibliography was prepared for the Salmon Anchor Habitat Work Group. This group was formed by the Oregon Department of Forestry to review and evaluate the Salmon Anchor Habitat Strategy as directed by the 2003 Oregon Legislature. The Salmon Anchor Habitat Strategy is a component of management plans developed...
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: Salmon Anchor Habitats in Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests, Oregon: Science, Policy, Economics

Socio-Economic Measures for Intensively Monitoring Watersheds: The Middle Fork John Day Effectiveness Monitoring Project: Year 2 Report

Creator:: Hibbard, Michael, Lurie, Susan, Institute for Natural Resources, and Institute for Policy Research and Innovation
Abstract:: This report describes the accomplishments in the second and final year of a project to develop a set of measures to monitor the socio-economic effects on the local community of the stream restoration efforts on the upper Middle Fork John Day River. A panel of Grant County residents helped develop...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: . It holds that “ecological integrity, economic opportunity, and community are inextricably linked in

Methods to develop a crediting strategy for transportation and metropolitan planning agencies: White paper

Creator:: Kagan, Jimmy and Gaines, Lisa
Abstract:: White paper from the Institute for Natural Resources (INR) is an Oregon University System institute located at Oregon State University and Portland State University.
Resource Type:: Working Paper
Full Text:: in social, economic, and policy terms. Ecological endpoints are biophysical outcome measures that

Riparian and wetland vegetation of central and eastern Oregon

Creator:: Crowe, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1963-, Kovalchik, Bernard L., Kerr, Marie Jeannette James, 1968-, Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center, and Institute for Natural Resources
Abstract:: The structure and components of riparian areas influence the rate, amount, and timing of water, nutrients, organic debris, and inorganic materials that enter streams and rivers. The energy of floodwaters and their ultimate volume, timing and erosive power is influenced by the soils, vegetation and geomorphology of fluvial surfaces within...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: degradation of their ecological structure, composition and function. Rehabilitation, restoration and

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Ecosystem Service Market Development: The Role and Opportunity for Finance

An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and Highway Planning Volume 2

Expressing Oregon environmental benchmarks in ecological terms: recommendations to the Oregon progress board

Financing Ecosystem Service Markets: Issues and Opportunities

Financing mechanisms that advance ecosystem service markets and promote rural sustainability

A quantitative wildfire risk assessment using a modular approach of geostatistical clustering and regionally distinct valuations of assets—A case study in Oregon

Salmon anchor habitats in Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests, Oregon : science, policy, economics ; an annotated bibliography

Socio-Economic Measures for Intensively Monitoring Watersheds: The Middle Fork John Day Effectiveness Monitoring Project: Year 2 Report

Methods to develop a crediting strategy for transportation and metropolitan planning agencies: White paper

Riparian and wetland vegetation of central and eastern Oregon

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