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Vogl, Adrian

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Ecosystem services, Watershed management
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Last updated: June 11, 2025
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Adrian Vogl (she/her) is a Lead Scientist for Stanford University’s Natural Capital Project and a Consultant with The World Bank. Adrian’s work engages researchers, policymakers, and civil society groups worldwide, advancing the science and practice of nature-based solutions for water security. Her focus is on how land management impacts water and other ecosystem service co-benefits, particularly in the face of changing and uncertain climate conditions. At The World Bank, Adrian co-leads the Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Landscape Assessment (BELA) initiative. engaging with policymakers, technical staff, and consultants to produce analytical tools and build capacity for integrated landscape management, with the goal of enhancing the durability of investments in infrastructure, agriculture, and environment. Adrian holds a Ph.D. in Aquatic Resources from Texas State University-San Marcos, where she developed decision support tools for development and conservation planning in Texas (USA), and a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona.
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    Nature's Frontiers: Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2023-06-27) Damania, Richard; Polasky, Stephen; Ruckelshaus, Mary; Russ, Jason; Amann, Markus; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Gerber, James; Hawthorne, Peter; Heger, Martin Philipp; Mamun, Saleh; Ruta, Giovanni; Schmitt, Rafael; Smith, Jeffrey; Vogl, Adrian; Wagner, Fabian; Zaveri, Esha
    The great expansion of economic activity since the end of World War II has caused an unprecedented rise in living standards, but it has also caused rapid changes in earth systems. Nearly all types of natural capital—the world’s stock of resources and services provided by nature—are in decline. Clean air, abundant and clean water, fertile soils, productive fisheries, dense forests, and healthy oceans are critical for healthy lives and healthy economies. Mounting pressures, however, suggest that the trend of declining natural capital may cast a long shadow into the future. "Nature’s Frontiers: Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital" presents a novel approach to address these foundational challenges of sustainability. A methodology combining innovative science, new data sources, and cutting-edge biophysical and economic models builds sustainable resource efficiency frontiers to assess how countries can sustainably use their natural capital more efficiently. The analysis provides recommendations on how countries can better use their natural capital to achieve their economic and environ mental goals. The report indicates that significant efficiency gaps exist in nearly every country. Closing these gaps can address many of the world’s pressing economic and environmental problems—economic productivity, health, food and water security, and climate change. Although the approach outlined in this report will entail demanding policy reforms, the costs of inaction will be far higher.
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    Managing Forest Ecosystem Services for Hydropower Production
    (Elsevier, 2016-07) Vogl, Adrian L.; Dennedy-Frank, P. James; Wolny, Stacie; Johnson, Justin A.; Hamel, Perrine; Narain, Urvashi; Vaidya, Anil; Vogl, Adrian
    In many countries, hydropower development is rapidly becoming a focus of green growth policies. This represents a significant opportunity for ecosystem services-based land management that integrates environmental and development goals to benefit the hydropower sector and support economic growth. In this study, we present an approach for targeting ecosystem-provision investment in hydropower catchments coupled with hydrologic modeling to quantify the benefits of soil and water conservation activities. We demonstrate the application of this approach in five hydropower facility catchments in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. The results show that there is a high potential for targeted soil and water conservation to increase sediment retention services that benefit hydropower facilities (up to a 44% reduction in sediment transported from uplands into streams), although this benefit is distributed non-uniformly across catchments and levels of investment. The extent to which services can be improved is strongly driven by current land use and management practices that impact how and where conservation activities can be located. Iterative use of the method described here, in a process of stakeholder engagement and capacity-building, enables policy makers to determine the optimal mix of land management strategies and budget allocation to maximize service improvements that support hydropower production.