Multiple Benefits of Landscape Transformation Cut Sheet: Human Health & Well Being

The Human Health and Well Being Cut Sheet is part of a series that offers a short and comprehensive summary of environmental and social benefits attributed to sustainable landscapes.

Findings from CalWEP’s comprehensive literature review focused on the multi-benefits of sustainable landscapes have been synthesized into downloadable cut sheets, as part of CalWEP’s landscape tool series. Each represents a specific benefit theme provided by the Pacific Institute’s multi-benefit framework:  1) Water, 2) Energy, 3) Risk & Resilience, 4) Land & Environment, and 5) People & Communities. They have been designed to highlight the following information:

• Summary narrative of findings from academic literature and other studies
• Quantitative benefit
• Qualitative benefits (where applicable)
• Comprehensive bibliography

Information contained within the Human Health and Well Being Cut Sheet can be utilized by water agency staff to achieve any of the following:

• Develop an appreciation for the breadth of multi-benefits, both environmental and social, associated with landscape transformations;
• Integrate benefits into water management multi-benefit decision making frameworks;
• Improve landscape transformation program pitches to increase uptake by hard-to-reach customers, including the CII sector;
• Improve the business case for landscape transformation using return on investment calculators; and
• Source benefits for use in community-based social marketing campaigns.

This work was made possible with funding from the California Department of Water Resources.