Towards effective ecosystem services assessment in marine and coastal management

Charles Mahe, Rémi Mongruel, Nicola Beaumont, Tara Hooper, Harold Levrel and Linwood Pendleton ()
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Charles Mahe: AFB - Agence Française pour la Biodiversité
Rémi Mongruel: AMURE - Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UBO - Université de Brest - IUEM - Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers - UBO - Université de Brest - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Nicola Beaumont: PML - Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Tara Hooper: PML - Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Linwood Pendleton: AMURE - Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UBO - Université de Brest - IUEM - Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers - UBO - Université de Brest - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Despite facing increasing pressures and natural threats, complex marine and coastal ecosystems provide a large diversity of services which directly and indirectly contribute to our wellbeing. Assessing the socioeconomic importance of these ecosystem services has been increasingly recognised as a potential argument to support sustainable management of marine ecosystems. A diversity of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and tools has been used including monetary and non-monetary approaches. One way of scoping and simplifying assessments is to start with a clear focus on the management questions that could benefit from a better understanding of ecosystem services. Such a demand-driven approach requires an ecosystem service assessment that begins with the stakeholders. Expert scientific knowledge can be used to identify what data and types of assessment are actually needed to inform management decisions, and also what, practically, can be undertaken in terms of assessment. This chapter presents a stepwise process, called the ‘triage,' that creates a transparent and strategic process engaging practitioners to determine where best to focus the effort of both natural and social scientists involved in a marine and coastal ecosystem services assessment.

Keywords: Pressures; Natural threats; Marine ecosystems; Coastal ecosystems; Services; Wellbeing; Socioeconomic; Ecosystem services; Sustainable management; Qualitative methodologies; Quantitative methodologies; Monetary and non-monetary approaches; Ecosystem service assessment; Stakeholders; Expert scientific; Triage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Marion Potschin; Roy Haines-Young; Robert Fish; R. Kerry Turner. Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services, Routledge, pp 359--373, 2016, 9781317687047

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