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CHANGES AND CHOICES IN THE YAHARA

This mini-documentary series summarizes the major lessons we learned in each of our research areas.

Scenarios: Building Resilience with Long-Term Thinking

Landscape Analyses: Getting the Most from Our Landscapes

Groundwater and Agriculture: Tapping the Hidden Benefits

Water Quality: Rethinking How to Clean Our Lakes

Policy and Governance: Innovating for Clean Water Results

Urban Heat Island: Improving Data for Sustainable Cities

 

WATER WALK VIDEO SERIES

Learn about the Yahara Watershed and the various issues facing its freshwater resources.

What is the Yahara Watershed?

Urbanization: The effects of impervious surface

Groundwater quantity in the Yahara Watershed

Urbanization: What can you do?

Groundwater quality in the Yahara Watershed

Agriculture in the Yahara Watershed

Biofuels in the Yahara Watershed

 

 

YAHARA 2070 SCENARIO PREVIEWS

The Yahara 2070 scenarios are plausible yet fictional futures for water and people in Wisconsin's Yahara watershed. These previews offer a glimpse of each. Explore them more at yahara2070.org.

Abandonment and Renewal

Accelerated Innovation

Connected Communities

Nested Watersheds

 

YAHARA 2070 AUDIO-STORIES

Listen to engaging narrations of the four Yahara 2070 scenario storylines, and learn more about Yahara 2070.

Abandonment & Renewal

What could life in 2070 be like if we are not prepared for water and climate challenges?




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Accelerated Innovation

What could life in 2070 be like if we prioritize technology to solve water and climate challenges?




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Connected Communities

What could life in 2070 be like if there is a shift in values toward less consumption and more community connection?




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Nested Watersheds

What could life in 2070 be like if the United States reforms how it governs freshwater?




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MORE ABOUT SCENARIOS

Learn more about the Yahara 2070 scenarios and resilience thinking with these videos by us and others

A scenarios primer

Local leaders discuss the future

The art and stories of Yahara 2070,
produced by QUEST Wisconsin

"Envisioning Responses to Climate Change," Wisconsin Academy Talk, video courtesy
Wisconsin Public Television and University
Place

Resilience in social-ecological systems: Models & field studies, produced by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

Planning for the future of a watershed: Lessons from Yahara 2070, webinar for the North Central Region Water Network

Presentation about the Yahara 2070 model results from a workshop held on May 2, 2017 called Meeting Our Future Water Needs

 

 

PODCASTS

Peak Phosphorus, featuring WSC PI Stephen Carpenter.
Produced by Generation Anthropocene

 

WATER SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE
IN THE YAHARA WATERSHED
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant DEB-1038759. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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