Facilitating implementation of landscape-scale water management: The integrated constructed wetland concept

Everard, Mark; Harrington, Rory; McInnes, Robert J.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.08.001

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“…Although the success of CTWs is frequently assessed based on the performance of pollution reduction, many constructed, restored or created wetlands are dual-or multi-purpose wetlands providing several ecosystem/landscape services (Hickman, 1994;Benyamine et al, 2004;Thiere et al, 2009;Cui and Jiang, 2011;Vymazal, 2011;Everard et al, 2012).…”

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A constructed treatment wetland as an opportunity to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services

Semeraro

Giannuzzi

Beccarisi³

et al. 2015

Ecological Engineering

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A constructed treatment wetland as an opportunity to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services

Semeraro

Giannuzzi

Beccarisi³

et al. 2015

Ecological Engineering

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“…ICWs can, therefore, contribute to good ecological status while delivering wider societal benefits. However, barriers to ICW uptake have been encountered, and Everard et al (2012) call for future research on mainstreaming ICW concepts. This slow uptake may stem from narrow disciplinary framing of legacy regulations (Everard & McInnes 2013) or a lack of vision by, and appropriate support tools for, planners and managers.…”

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“…Despite sound evidence that ICWs deliver water quality improvements and wider societal benefits (Doody et al 2009;Harrington & McInnes, 2009), and that PES schemes can be effective measures for delivering win-win environmental solutions (Farley & Costanza 2010); barriers still exist to both the implementation of ICWs (Everard et al 2012) and the development of often unavoidably complex PES schemes. Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) offers an approach that can be used to develop sustainable outcomes, align potentially differing views of stakeholders and manage the complexity inherent in both PES schemes and water management decision-making.…”

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Multicriteria decision analysis for the evaluation of water quality improvement and ecosystem service provision

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Greaves³

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Water & Environment J

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Water and land management decisions require consideration of multiple factors. Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) provides a structured, auditable and transparent tool that helps inform and add rigour to multioption decisions. MCDA was used in a payment for ecosystem services (PES) project to evaluate options for delivering good ecological status in Tortworth Brook, Gloucestershire, UK. Following a process of stakeholder engagement, final options considered were: (1) doing nothing; (2) modifying existing sewage treatment works; (3) a single integrated constructed wetland (ICW) targeting multiple ecosystem service outcomes; and (4) catchment wide multiple ICWs. The analysis concluded that the ‘do nothing’ option and modifying the existing works are both likely to provide poor utility and value for money. Both ICW options offered the greatest utility in terms of optimising the benefits to all stakeholders.

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“…However, it has also been applied to analyse the interconnectedness of different domains of human activity and their interplay with regard to meeting the goals of sustainability (Steward and Kuska, 2011). Everard et al (2012) and Everard (2013 and2015a) found STEEP-based analysis valuable for understanding the systemic relationships between constituent parameters in analyses of water, ecosystem service flows and dependent development issues in South Africa, Europe and India, particularly in relation to appropriate technology deployment and associated governance systems making water and its associated ecosystem services available for people and economic uses.…”

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“…Everard et al, 2012;Everard, 2013Everard, , 2015a. Based on the analysis of examples via the STEEP framework in the next section, we then build an explanatory, theoretical framework to guide the institutionalisation of proenvironmental values as a step towards shifting societal norms and behaviours.…”

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The ripple effect: Institutionalising pro-environmental values to shift societal norms and behaviours

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Contemporary markets and societal norms externalise many ecosystem services important for a sustainable future. A range of external legal, market, social protocol and other mechanisms, referred to as 'societal levers', constrain or otherwise influence the behaviour of resource managers, and the expectations and assumptions of the society within which they operate. These 'societal levers' have progressively institutionalised evolving societal values, influencing markets and other choices. We use the STEEP (social, technological, economic, environmental and political) framework to explore case studies of societal transitions, analysing how emergent concerns become shared and ultimately transformed into 'levers', shifting societal norms. Emerging concerns become influential only when they are shared across societal sectors, and when broader implications are realised across multiple dimensions of the STEEP framework. We propose and advocate use of a 'ripple effect' of values as a means to direct and accelerate the pace at which environmental concerns shape mainstream societal norms and structures, and become institutionalised in the form of 'societal levers'.

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Facilitating implementation of landscape-scale water management: The integrated constructed wetland concept

Cited by 44 publications

References 55 publications

A constructed treatment wetland as an opportunity to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services

A constructed treatment wetland as an opportunity to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services

Multicriteria decision analysis for the evaluation of water quality improvement and ecosystem service provision

The ripple effect: Institutionalising pro-environmental values to shift societal norms and behaviours

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