Land-use Planning Tool for the Upper Santa Cruz Watershed.

Figure 26.5

This figure appears in chapter 26 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/response-strategies/decision-support/graphics/land-use-planning-tool-upper-santa-cruz

The Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model is a regional land-use planning tool that integrates ecological, economic, and social information and values relevant to decision-makers and stakeholders. The tool is a map-based set of evaluation tools for planners and stakeholders, and is meant to help in balancing disparate interests within a regional context. Projections for climate change can be added to tools such as this one and used to simulate impacts of climate change and generate scenarios of climate change sensitivity; such an application is under development for this tool (Figure source: USGS 2012d4622f7e-aca7-42e6-95da-90579a187c30).

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