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Integrating Landscape Approaches and Multi-Resource Analysis into Natural Resource Management Summary of a Workshop (2016) / Chapter Skim
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... Multi-resource analysis (MRA) is an approach to landscape-scale analysis that integrates information among multiple natural resources, including ecosystem services, and is designed to evaluate impacts and tradeoffs between development and conservation at landscape scales to inform public resource managers.
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... This component moves beyond traditional resource assessments and includes integrated models incorporating the geologic, hydrologic, biological, and ecological sciences. The third component is designed to inform decision makers on the potential biophysical and socio­ conomic e impacts to the natural resources being studied, given alternative scenarios.
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... . 3 SOURCE: Image provided courtesy of the USGS.
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... The NetRA tool will model interrelationships among the natural resources incorporating the economic implications of alternative scenarios. A conceptual framework was developed in 2014 and current efforts are focused on developing a proof-of-concept systems dynamics tool in the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado.
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... The last panel addressing multi-disciplinary and cross-agency integration, for example, was a discussion of key considerations that need to be addressed at the outset of any MRA. The workshop included participants from federal agencies, policy makers, and the broader scientific community in an exchange of how to incorporate landscape approaches and MRA into the sustainable management of natural resources.
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  • inform public
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