Operationalising marine and coastal ecosystem services

Rodrigues, João Garcia; Villasante, Sebastián; Drakou, Evangelia G.; Kermagoret, Charlène

doi:10.1080/21513732.2018.1433765

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“…Ecosystem valuation is currently mainly used to increase public awareness of the importance of preserving these ecosystems. An important next step in ecosystem valuation is to operationalize an integrated valuation framework that endorses value pluralism to better support global policy initiatives in ecosystem-based management (Garcia- Rodrigues et al, 2018 3. What parts of the marine social-ecological system are concerned by these policy issues?…”

Section: An Example Of a Marine Ecosystem Service Conservation Trust mentioning

confidence: 99%

Valuing Marine Ecosystems - Taking into account the value of ecosystem benefits in the Blue Economy

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Andersen²,

Armstrong³

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The main aim of this publication is to highlight the current thinking in ecosystem service valuation for the marine environment. Valuation of the benefits stemming from marine ecosystem services, including often unnoticed benefits to society, can help to assess the long-term sustainability of blue growth, support policy development and marine management decisions, and raise awareness of the importance of the marine environment to society and in the economy. Recommendations are made on how to incorporate outputs from valuation studies into the traditional analyses used in resource and environmental economics and into the European marine policy landscape and related management and decision making choices. The publication is primarily aimed at stakeholders interested in valuation of marine ecosystem services and natural capital accounting, spanning diverse roles from commissioning, managing, funding and coordinating, to developing, implementing, or advising on, marine ecosystem service and natural capital programmes. Such programmes will have strategic and policy drivers but their main purpose may vary from predominantly research driven science to provision of valuation data and reporting to legally-binding regulations or directives. The main focus is on European capabilities but set in a global context with the various actors spanning a variety of geographical scales from national to regional and European. Key stakeholder organizations include environmental or other agencies; marine research institutions, their researchers and operators; international and regional initiatives and programmes; national, regional and European policy makers and their advisors. It will also be of interest to the wider marine and maritime research and policy community. The publication recommends:1.Marine ecosystem valuation should be used to support policy making, regulation and management and decision making;2.The quality and availability of monetary and non-monetary valuation data should be improved and increased through research, development and implementation actions;3.The spatial and temporal dimensions of ecosystem valuation need to be mapped and their implications for policy and management decisions assessed;4.In order to strengthen the use and derivation of ecosystem service values to support policy, regulation and management, underpinning research and development actions should be undertaken:a.To improve understanding of the role of marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes in providing services and benefits;b.To improve modelling approaches to support ecosystem valuation and decision making;5.Systems to enable and use marine natural capital accounting and enhance the experimental ecosystem accounts should be further developed and implemented including:a. A natural capital portfolio approach utilising existing marine data sets and assessment results and addressing scale and aggregation as well as ecosystem degradation;b.Valuation methods for both ecosystem services and assets that can be standardised and are compatible with National Accounting;c.Payment for marine ecosystem services and other financing mechanisms to restore marine natural capital and improve its sustainable use.

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Section: An Example Of a Marine Ecosystem Service Conservation Trust mentioning

confidence: 99%

Valuing Marine Ecosystems - Taking into account the value of ecosystem benefits in the Blue Economy

Austen¹,

Andersen²,

Armstrong³

et al. 2019

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“…LWD is produced by terrestrial and oceanic dynamics that lead to wood accumulation on beaches particularly as a result of high-energy events (such as storms) and flooding, and spreads along most marine shores; treefall due to riverbank erosion or landslides are significant causes of LWD, and anthropogenic causes are minor LWD sources [63]. In general, woody debris consists of a substantial number of branches and trunks, root boles, and whole trees [64].…”

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Large Wood Debris Contributes to Beach Ecosystems but Colombian Beachgoer’s Do Not Recognize It

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Large Woody Debris (LWD) accumulation serves essential ecological functions and benefits society’s coastal ecosystems (e.g., beaches). Thus far, the ecosystem services perspective has paid little attention to LWD. Therefore, we aim to contrast social perceptions on LWD and its ecological significance in Puerto Velero beach, Caribbean, Colombia. In consequence, the contribution of LWD to the conformation and creation of Puerto Velero beach was analyzed, as well as how beachgoers perceive the importance of LWD and if they were willing to pay to remove LWD in this beach. To achieve this, a quantitative convergent approach was then proposed using GIS analysis and remote sensing to understand the contributions of LWD to the Puerto Velero beach ecosystem; and in addition, a survey was performed to determine how beachgoers perceived LWD and how they valued the phenomenon. Results indicate that LWD contributed to beach maintenance; nevertheless, most people neglected LWD values because of its lack of visual attractiveness. As such, ecosystem services targets become conflicted because people positively perceived ecosystem services provided by beaches, but they did not assign importance to the beach dynamics they deemed unattractive, regardless of their vast importance.

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“…Undoubtedly, the most important next step in ES valuation is to operationalize an integrated valuation framework that endorses 'value pluralism' to better support global policy initiatives in EBM of marine and coastal ecosystems, where aquaculture is increasingly becoming an important driver of change. In this way, a greater portion of society will be involved in assessing the value of ES and both 'natural capital' and 'social capital' will be further integrated within national and global accounts of economic development Garcia-Rodrigues et al 2018).…”

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Valuation of Ecosystem Services to promote sustainable aquaculture practices

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Calado

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Conceptual frameworks to assess and valuate Ecosystem Services (ES) are rapidly becoming important tools for ecosystem‐based management, as they support transdisciplinary approaches to ecological economics and expand current asset boundaries to include natural and social capital. An important area where such ES assessment frameworks could become relevant management tools is aquaculture. Aquaculture activities are an interconnected part of the ecosystem in which they exist and, under certain circumstances, can support many of the same fundamental ES provided by nature. But, in most cases, aquaculture typically increases provisioning services at the expense of the other services (regulation & maintenance and cultural services). To understand the capacity of ES valuation methods to expose existing ES trade‐offs in areas under aquaculture development, this study provides a literature review of publications that assessed and valuated ES delivered and/or impacted by aquaculture. In general, it seems that certain types of aquaculture do negatively impact overall ES delivery (e.g. intensive mangrove shrimp farming in Asia), yet certain modes of production (e.g. integrated multi‐trophic aquaculture) and cultured species (e.g. algae and certain bivalves) can have a positive impact on ES, not only improving provisioning services but also regulation and maintenance services and, potentially, cultural services. ES valuation methods provide important data that facilitate discussion among stakeholders and policymakers and should be included in marine and coastal management planning processes to foster a more sustainable aquaculture.

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Operationalising marine and coastal ecosystem services

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Valuing Marine Ecosystems - Taking into account the value of ecosystem benefits in the Blue Economy

Valuing Marine Ecosystems - Taking into account the value of ecosystem benefits in the Blue Economy

Large Wood Debris Contributes to Beach Ecosystems but Colombian Beachgoer’s Do Not Recognize It

Valuation of Ecosystem Services to promote sustainable aquaculture practices

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