Case Studies

Focus Area:
methodology, water
Audience:
scientists, water managers

Presents a general procedure for developing water scenarios.  Techniques are reviewed for each scenario development step and limitations of existing scenario development studies are demonstrated.  A probabilistic framework is proposed for future scenario development practice.

Focus Area:
transportation, land use, coastal, disaster preparedness
Audience:
managers, government agency
Geographic Area:
Northeast U.S., Cape Cod

A scenario planning pilot project on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to integrate climate change considerations into existing and continuing transportation, land use, coastal zone, and hazard mitigation planning processes. The Federal Highway Administration funded Volpe to develop for the Cape Cod...

Focus Area:
transportation, land use, natural resources, methodology
Audience:
government agency
Geographic Area:
Southwest U.S., New Mexico

A multi-phased project to facilitiate planning for rapidly growing central New Mexico, addressing challenges of congestion, sprawl, energy use, vehicle emissions, and water scarcity, all exacerbated by climate change. 

Focus Area:
ecosystems, natural resources
Audience:
NGOs, SP facilitators

Covers the fundamentals of scenario planning and features two case studies covering how scenario planning is used to inform landscape-scale conservation efforts in real world settings.

Focus Area:
business, methodology, coastal
Audience:
SP facilitators, government agency, business

This report discusses the development and testing of adaptation options together with the development of scenarios to assist in the testing of these adaptation options.

Focus Area:
ecosystems, riparian
Audience:
managers, government agency, NGOs
Geographic Area:
U.S./Mexico border; Rio Grande/Rio Bravo; Southwest U.S.

The webinar focused on the riparian zone and adjacent ecosystems in the Big Bend reach of the river, including the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River and the Monumento Natural Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico.

Focus Area:
water; energy
Audience:
water managers

A white paper prepared by Stratus Consulting and Denver Water for WUCA, AWWA, WRF, and AMWA discusses how utilities are changing decision-making practices due to large future uncertainties.