Regional Vulnerability Assessment

How can we - policy makers, resource managers, and citizens - make better use of available data and information in making decisions related to environmental issues? This basic question is at the core of the EPA's Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) Program. The ReVA Program focuses on regional scale integrated assessment with the aim of assisting decision makers in identifying and locating both environmental resources and the conditions that are stressing those resources. ReVA strengthens the decision-making process by identifying the current status and relationships between stressors and sensitive environmental resources and estimating the environmental changes that follow from specific actions.