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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.
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Scenarios: Building Resilience with Long-Term Thinking |
Landscape Analyses: Getting the Most from Our Landscapes |
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Groundwater and Agriculture: Tapping the Hidden Benefits |
Water Quality: Rethinking How to Clean Our Lakes |
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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.
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What is the Yahara Watershed? |
Urbanization: The effects of impervious surface |
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Groundwater quantity in the Yahara Watershed |
Urbanization: What can you do? |
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Groundwater quality in the Yahara Watershed |
Agriculture in the Yahara Watershed |
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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.
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Abandonment and Renewal |
Accelerated Innovation |
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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.
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Abandonment & Renewal What could life in 2070 be like if we are not prepared for water and climate challenges? Accelerated Innovation What could life in 2070 be like if we prioritize technology to solve water and climate challenges? Connected Communities What could life in 2070 be like if there is a shift in values toward less consumption and more community connection? 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
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A scenarios primer |
Local leaders discuss the future |
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The art and stories of Yahara 2070, |
"Envisioning Responses to Climate Change," Wisconsin Academy Talk, video courtesy |
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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 |
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Presentation about the Yahara 2070 model results from a workshop held on May 2, 2017 called Meeting Our Future Water Needs |
PODCASTS
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Peak Phosphorus, featuring WSC PI Stephen Carpenter. |
