Coastal Zones Ecosystem Services From Science to Values and Decision Making /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Turner, R. Kerry (Editor), Schaafsma, Marije (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Ecological Economics, 9
• Subjects: Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Management.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.

This book applies the ‘ecosystem services’ framework to coastal environments, showing how it could facilitate an adaptive management strategy. The contributors describe a decision support system (DSS) based on the 3 Ps – pluralism, pragmatism and precaution – that leads to a more flexible, ‘learn by...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Conceptual framework
• 3. Natural sciences modelling in coastal and shelf sciences
• 4. Valuation of ecosystem services
• 5. Identification of a practicable set of ecosystem indicators for coastal and marine ecosystem services
• 6. Valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem services: a literature review
• 7. Scenarios explored with Delphi
• 8. A review of marine and coastal ecosystem services data and tools to incorporate this in to decision-making
• 9. Linking ecosystem services of Marine Protected Areas to benefits in human wellbeing?
• 10. Why valuing ‘blue carbon’?
• 11. What future for the English coastline? Managed realignment benefits and their value estimate transferability
• 12. Jelly fish blooms and their impacts on welfare benefits: recreation in the UK and fisheries in Italy.