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  1. A few questions we're no longer asking about assessment : The assessment landscape and possible futures

    This presentation addresses the current assessment landscape, possible and quickly emerging futures. Presenters, all experienced assessment designers/practitioners, address the topic from a 4-year/national, a...

  2. Mapping Meaningful Places on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Landscape Values

    Landscape values mapping has been widely employed as a form of public participation GIS (PPGIS) in natural resource planning and decision-making to capture the complex array of values, uses, and interactions...

  3. Scenery as Policy: Public Involvement in Developing a Management Plan for the Scenic Resources of the Columbia River Gorge

    The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (NSA) was created in 1986 in response to a growing interest in preserving the scenic beauty of the gorge. The creation of the NSA and other areas around the country...

  4. Measuring and Managing Resistance and Resilience Under Climate Change in Northern Great Lake Forests (USA)

    Context: Climate change will have diverse and interacting effects on forests over the next century. One of the most pronounced effects may be a decline in resistance to chronic change and resilience to acute...

  5. Climate Change Effects on Northern Great Lake (USA) Forests: A Case for Preserving Diversity

    Under business as usual (BAU) management, stresses posed by climate change may exceed the ability of Great Lake forests to adapt. Temperature and precipitation projections in the Great Lakes region are expected...

  6. Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: Common Ground? Land Use along Portland's Urban Growth Boundary

    In this study we analyze the impact of the urban growth boundary on rural landscape change in Portland, Oregon, and Clark County, Washington,and assess the importance of rural and agricultural landscapes to...

  7. Ecosystem Services in Managing Residential Landscapes: Priorities, Value Dimensions, and Cross-Regional Patterns

    Although ecosystem services have been intensively examined in certain domains (e.g., forests and wetlands), little research has assessed ecosystem services for the most dominant landscape type in urban...

  8. Carbon Dynamics in the Future Forest: the Importance of Long-Term Successional Legacy and Climate–Fire Interactions

    Understanding how climate change may influence forest carbon (C) budgets requires knowledge of forest growth relationships with regional climate, long-term forest succession, and past and future disturbances,...

  9. Assessing Cultural Ecosystem Services using GIS-Based Landscape Values Mapping. Case Study: Olympic Peninsula Human Ecology...

    This presentation focuses on the Olympic Peninsula mapping project objectives: Develop and test a method for mapping sociocultural values at a Bioregional scale Test techniques for analyzing spatialized...

  10. Accelerated Thermokarst Formation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

    Thermokarst is a land surface lowered and disrupted by melting ground ice. Thermokarst is a major driver of landscape change in the Arctic, but has been considered to be a minor process in Antarctica. Here, we...

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