The Economic and Employment Impacts of Forest and Watershed Restoration

Nielsen-Pincus, Max; Moseley, Cassandra

doi:10.1111/j.1526-100x.2012.00885.x

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“…The American Petroleum Institute estimates that the oil and gas industry has an employment multiplier of approximately 3.0 at the national level (PricewaterhouseCoopers ), which falls within the range of employment multipliers found for all forest and watershed restoration projects at the state level, in Oregon (Nielsen‐Pincus & Moseley ). Crop agriculture has a national employment multiplier of 2.33, while livestock has an employment multiplier of 3.34 (derived from Garrett‐Peltier & Pollin ).…”

Section: Challenges To Scaling Up Restoration Economy Studiesmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…As we will demonstrate, restoration is largely driven by legal requirements and public sector investment arrangements, which can be quite complex. Many restoration projects result from interagency collaborations and public–private partnerships, so that tracking investments requires cross‐referencing contracts and budgets from multiple sources (Nielsen‐Pincus & Moseley ; see more information in Supp. Information 3 in Appendix S1, under public procurement).…”

Section: Originating Demand For Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This study was followed in 2010 by an assessment of Oregon's restoration industry (Nielsen‐Pincus & Moseley ), which has grown in parallel to an extensive timber industry, which supplies similar equipment and labor skill. The authors used a stratified sample of 99 Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board grants to create input–output models for a variety of restoration project types, including in‐stream, riparian, wetland, upland, and fish passage restoration as well as for four different types of contracts.…”

Section: Case Studies: Direct Indirect and Induced Economic Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Defining and evaluating the ecological restoration economy

BenDor

Livengood

Lester

et al. 2015

Restoration Ecology

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For decades, industry groups and many media outlets have propagated the notion that environmental protection is bad for business. However, missing from this public debate has been a detailed accounting of the U.S. economic output and employment that are created through conservation, restoration, and mitigation actions, which we call the “Restoration Economy.” In this paper, we review related literature, including 14 local and state‐level case studies of privately funded environmental restoration projects. We also review federal and state government programs that fund restoration throughout the United States, revealing the complex nature of this sector. We find growing evidence that the restoration industry not only protects public environmental goods but also contributes to national economic growth and employment, supporting as many as 33 jobs per $1 million invested, with an employment multiplier of between 1.48 and 3.8 (the number of jobs supported by every restoration job) and an output multiplier of between 1.6 and 2.59 (multiplier for total economic output from investments). The existing literature also shows that restoration investments lead to significant positive economic and employment impacts and appear to have particularly localized benefits, which can be attributed to the tendency for projects to employ local labor and materials. While these initial figures are promising, the extent of environmental restoration activities and benefits at a national level is not yet well understood. Our findings reveal the need for a methodological framework for more accurately and broadly estimating the size of the U.S. restoration sector and its impact on the U.S. economy.

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Section: Challenges To Scaling Up Restoration Economy Studiesmentioning

confidence: 70%

Section: Originating Demand For Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Case Studies: Direct Indirect and Induced Economic Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Defining and evaluating the ecological restoration economy

BenDor

Livengood

Lester

et al. 2015

Restoration Ecology

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“…We also found that a typical watershed council is responsible for $268,072 in local economic activity each year. In a more recent study, Nielsen-Pincus and Moseley (2010) found that each $1 million invested in forest or watershed restoration generates between 15.7 and 23.8 jobs, and between $2.1 and $2.4 million dollars for the local economy.…”

Section: The New Natural Resource Economymentioning

confidence: 98%

Creating socio-economic measures for community-based natural resource management: a case from watershed stewardship organisations

Hibbard

Lurie

2012

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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One consequence of the transition of rural communities from industrialised agriculture and natural resource extraction to sustainable development principles has been the rise of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). CBNRM entails collaborative efforts, typically involving local, state and federal agencies, private firms and landowners, non-governmental organisations such as environmental and economic development groups, and watershed councils. There are no agreed-upon metrics or even broadly accepted approaches for assessing the effectiveness of these new institutions. A good deal of work has been done on evaluating collaborative processes and some on environmental outcomes, but almost none on the socio-economic effects of their activities. To help fill the gap we have been conducting a long-term action research project in Oregon, an analysis of the most effective approaches to the design and implementation of measures of the socio-economic health of communities in which watershed stewardship organisations are active. In this paper we present one case, a participatory process developing socio-economic measures for monitoring CBNRM. We describe the process and the resulting measures. It is expected that the measures will be systematically updated and tracked by the community over the next decade or more. The case study illustrates the necessity and challenges of developing measures for CBNRM that are locally meaningful.

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“…As synergies in environmental restoration result in measurable economic gains that follow restoration-induced improvements of ecosystems' statuses [5][6][7], one may suspect that the scientific and political implementation consortia that are restoring various ecosystems worldwide are finally able to provide comprehensive ecosystem restoration and to positively stimulate local economies and societies.…”

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Status of and Perspectives on River Restoration in Europe: 310,000 Euros per Hectare of Restored River

2018

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Abstract:The purpose of the present research was to analyze the available data on river restoration projects in Europe. As the framework of our study, we conducted a structured international survey. We asked selected entities and experts from among those responsible for river restoration in European countries about the details and costs of European Union river restoration projects. We examined 119 river restoration projects that were implemented in Europe between 1989 and 2016; during the collection of data, some of the projects were still ongoing. Based upon the collected data we observed that the number of river restoration projects has been increasing since 1989, which expresses society's growing interest in improving the quality of aquatic environments. We revealed that 56% of these European river restoration projects have been implemented by dedicated entities and stakeholders, not as part of any structured, larger-scale river restoration policy. This indicates that most European countries do not have integrated plans for river restoration. Our analysis showed that 52% of the projects analyzed have been designed and implemented without the participation of local stakeholders. It also showed that the budgets for river restoration projects did not differ significantly across various time horizons from 1989 to 2016. In our study, the average cost of restoring 1 ha of an European river was 310,000 euros (EUR). Considering these projects' permanent assets and including their amortization, we calculated the average unit price of a river restoration's value in terms of ecosystem meta-service to be 7757 EUR·ha −1 ·year −1 .

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The Economic and Employment Impacts of Forest and Watershed Restoration

Cited by 61 publications

References 20 publications

Defining and evaluating the ecological restoration economy

Defining and evaluating the ecological restoration economy

Creating socio-economic measures for community-based natural resource management: a case from watershed stewardship organisations

Status of and Perspectives on River Restoration in Europe: 310,000 Euros per Hectare of Restored River

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