Using Structured Decision Making to Evaluate Wetland Restoration Opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

ABSTRACT: Wetland restoration is an important water quality and climate resilience strategy. Wetland restoration rarely considers tradeoffs at large spatial and temporal scales, which limits capacity to aid decision makers. High resolution data can reveal hundreds to thousands of possible restoration options across a landscape, but guidance for setting restoration targets at these scales is limited. This study uses structured decision making (SDM) as a process for evaluating the desirability of numerous restoration options, with a case study on the Outer Coastal Plain of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA. The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with federal, state, and nonprofit organizations, evaluated a decision to target large-scale wetland restoration based on two fundamental objectives: improve

SUBMITTER: Martin DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9622542 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature