EPA Climate Change Panel: Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services (2001)

CONCUR contributed to a research initiative launched by the National Center for Atmospheric Research at USEPA Headquarters, the Tellus Institute, and other cooperators to examine effects of global climate change on ecosystem goods and services provided by the San Francisco Bay Delta watershed. These goods and services are “processes and attributes of ecosystems that help sustain and fulfill human life, including water supply, flood and drought alleviation, waste assimilation and purification, harvestable aquatic species, and recreation”. CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary and Senior Associate Bennett Brooks both served as members of the project’s Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), with a specific focus on the integration of ecological research and stakeholder processes Advisory Panel. CONCUR also conducted a focused stakeholder analysis of about a dozen senior players in California water policy to look at opportunities to link the EPA initiative with evolving California policy.