USGS Study Estimating A Monetary Value For Floodplain Ecosystem Services In The Chesapeake Bay And Delaware River Watersheds
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/chesapeake-bay-activities/science/floodplains-provide-millions-dollars-benefits-every-year <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118747 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #flood #flooding #floodinnundation #innundation #extremeweather #climatechange #watersheds #floodengineering #floodplains #nutrients #sediments #sedimentation #fluvial #soils #erosion #floodwaters #agriculture #farming #economics #accounting #mitigation #tradeoffs #management #landforms #geomorphology #ecosystems #publicsafety #communityhealth #appliedscience #water #hydrology #benefits #benefitstransfer #regulation #quantification #value #loss #lossanddamage #lossadjusting #Hazus #ChesapeakeBay #DelawareRiver
@usgs

@chris This is a safe space. $20 tickets but weed illegal in most of the country still. #tradeoffs I fly with a puffco now and enough hash for a section

#CEQA seeks to both (1) #inform the #public and governmental #decisionmakers about #tradeoffs in approving a #project with environmental effects, and (2) prevent #significant and #avoidable damage to the #environment. Vulnerable critters like the Temblor legless #lizard depend on CEQA to require agencies to fully consider and (where #feasible) #mitigate harmful environmental impacts.

https://legal-planet.org/2023/07/14/ucla-clinic-submits-amicus-brief-in-kern-oil-ordinance-case/

"There is a price tag for anything you want to achieve in life. Every single thing you want is an output that requires certain inputs to buy or earn. There's a 'list price' (actual, direct price to pay for the thing you want) and a 'real price' (List Price, plus the hidden, indirect price in the form of the tradeoffs and opportunity cost of the pursuit)." — Sahil Bloom — — — #SahilBloom #quote #quotes # #listprice #tradeoffs #realprice #achievement #accomplish

India’s ‘Green Hydrogen’ project needs critical examination -- This article draws from a previous project looking at Issue around Hydrogen as part of a project led by the Green European Foundation exploring what a climate emergency economy would look like.

https://greenhousethinktank.org/indias-green-hydrogen-project-needs-critical-examination/
https://www.greenhousethinktank.org/greening-hydrogen-big-issues-around-a-small-molecule/

#climateaction #hydrogen #limits #tradeoffs #politics #india

2nd annual meeting: Arturs Skute presenting WP3 « Analyzing #tradeoffs and #synergies between
#targets of #restoration and #reintroduction measures » with a focus on #emblematic #amphibians and #exotic #crayfish for #adaptive #management @daugavpils @BiodiversaPlus @WaterJPI

Sometimes you can execute your #playbook perfectly and still get a crap result. Because there are things that you don’t control. What you can control is getting people together to talk about the #tradeoffs of various solutions to your newly-discovered problem. And when they do that without casting aspersions or assigning blame, that’s a very good thing.

There are only two kinds of social structure conceivable-- personal government and impersonal government. If my anarchic friends will not have rules--they will have rulers.
--G K Chesterton

Source: What's Wrong with the World (1910)
#TradeOffs #Government #Anarchy #Organization #OrganizationalDevelopmentv #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

Is this situation hopeless or inevitable?

Oh heck no, and there's a degree of resilience in the distribution that is also of a benefit.

But we _have_ to keep in mind the #tradeoffs involved, especially for marginalized communities, and find ways to help mitigate those problems and concerns.

Lecturing people on why they are wrong to want that, however, is "Sir Not Appearing In This Rant." As is something akin to evangelizing without awareness of these issues.

Like a government diverting money from defense to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons. It's hardly a foregone conclusion that this is a good strategy for survival on the savannah. A chimpanzee can't win an argument with the homosapien, but the ape can rip the man apart like a rag doll.

–Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

#Quotes #Books #Humans #Evolution #Chimpanzees #NaturalSelection #Science #TradeOffs #Anthropology

@crawfordsm Welcome to dependency hell though… #tradeoffs
(haven’t seen the talk, is it available somewhere?)

Vertical and horizontal gene transfer #tradeoffs direct #plasmid fitness | Molecular Systems Biology
#hgt
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/msb.202211300

@CarlG1VIF #JT65 was responsible for my best distance/power ratio to date. Despite being such close cousins, and knowing the approximate #tradeoffs between the two modes, I somehow find #FT8 to be less compelling. Technically impressive, nonetheless. It’s never fun to discover the #bandwagon (#pun at your discretion) has moved out from under you.

@auran That's a good point — the improvements in communication (speed, coverage, and range (can send audio and video as easily as text) has indeed picked up the pack over the 1930's/40's, when cultured information seeped slowly across the country and there were isolated backwaters that worked out their own styles and systems.

Now things happen quickly and are sort of mashed together — fewer isolated backwaters exploring something on their own.

#change #tradeoffs #culture #evolution #memes

Huge congrats to Thijs Van den Einde who was invited to give a talk (1 of 40) at the Netherlands Entomological Soc.'s Entomologendag on his project on #metabolism and #lifehistory #tradeoffs in #stressfulenvironments in #cinxia. V proud supervisors!🎉🦋

Languages do influence design, tools do help. But there are no #SilverBullets, only #tradeoffs, and you will always need specialists who can navigate those tradeoffs and people who understand the technology stack you are using, its quirks, and how to think clearly in a given architecture.

Key concepts for informed health choices. 3.1: Evidence should be relevant - AD Oxman, I Chalmers, A Dahlgren, 2022 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01410768221140768?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

#ExternalValidity #SurrogateOutcomes #EBM

3.2 Expected advantages should outweigh expected disadvantages
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01410768221140786?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

#TradeOffs #DecisionMaking #bias

#COVID: If vaccinated older, sicker & poorer people die disproportionately, what are #tradeoffs in pursuit of normalcy—and at whose expense? What is an "acceptable loss"? Esp. when #masks have a major impact on transmission but a minimal one on daily life: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/28/covid-who-is-dying/

Building planet-scale services necessitate solving complex #scalability challenges and making numerous #tradeoffs across various product components.

🗣️ @mei Chin Tsai, Partner Director of Software Eng Manager @microsoft & Vinod Sridharan, Principal Software Engineering Architect @microsoft share experiences and lessons learned in building #AzureCosmos DB: https://bit.ly/3OOCzYq

#QConPlus #SoftwareConference #SoftwareDevelopment #EmergingTrends #Tech #SoftwareArchitecture

There’s less giggling on mastodon but also less screaming. #tradeoffs