Publications
The first-ever Potomac River and Watershed Report Card was released in tandem with the 2022 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card this year. Every year, the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed are graded on a variety of ecological, social, and economic indicators. For 2022, the COAST Card Project took a closer look at the Potomac Watershed, a sub-watershed of the Chesapeake, to help inform decision-making in more focused areas throughout the watershed. Like the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card, the Potomac River and Watershed Report Card was graded on ecological, social, and environmental indicators. An Environmental Justice Index was included, though not incorporated into the overall watershed health score.
This year, the Potomac Watershed scored 55%, a C+. The score is based on the four Potomac regions encompassed by the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card and social, environmental, and ecological conditions vary across those regions.
The Potomac River scored a 37%, a D+, a decrease from the previous year. Despite decreasing scores in some indicators, other indicators showed improving trends.
2022 Potomac Report Card_Final.pdfExploring Indicators for the Potomac Report Card
In 2022, Global Sustainability Scholars Nick An and Anna Calderón synthesized their research about possible indicators for the Potomac Report Card. Please find their work below.
FrameworkDoc_NickAn_4.pdfPotomacFlooding_AnnaC_1.pdfPractitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards.pdfPractitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards
The Integration and Application Network (IAN) has had a long history of generating report cards across the globe. Report cards from previous years can be found on the IAN website here.
Using Socioenvironmental Report Cards as a Tool for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
This paper details the development of a socioenvironmental report card for the Mississippi River watershed and reflects on the report card process as a transdisciplinary collaboration.
Vargas-Nguyen_et_al-2020-Integrated_Environmental_Assessment_and_Management-2.pdfLaguna de Bay Report Card.pdfOne of many IAN report cards: 2013 Laguna de Bay (Philippines) Report Card
The development of the first Ecosystem Health Report Card for Laguna de Bay was jointly implemented by the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia Resource Facility (PEMSEA) and the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA), under the UNEP/GEF Project on Global Foundations for Reducing Nutrient Enrichment and Oxygen Depletion from Land-based Pollution in Support of Global Nutrient Cycle.
COAST Card Newsletters
Each year we have an annual meeting to reflect on the progress each team has made, and this meeting is accompanied by a yearly newsletter. Our previous newsletters in English and Japanese can be found below. Please stay tuned for our 2022 newsletter!
COAST Card Newsletter 1 English FINAL.pdf2020 Reflection Newsletter
COASTCardNewsletter_Japanese_FINAL.pdf2020 Reflection Newsletter (Japanese)
COASTCard_2021AnnualMeetingNewsletter_v11_English_FINAL_Feb2022.pdf2021 Reflection Newsletter (English)
COASTCard_2021AnnualMeetingNewsletter_v11_Japan_FINAL_Feb2022.pdf2021 Reflection Newsletter (Japanese)