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Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt
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dc.contributor.author | Börger, Tobias | |
dc.contributor.author | Broszeit, Stefanie | |
dc.contributor.author | Ahtiainen, Heini | |
dc.contributor.author | Atkins, Jonathan | |
dc.contributor.author | Burdon, Daryl | |
dc.contributor.author | Luisetti, Tiziana | |
dc.contributor.author | Murrillas, Arantza | |
dc.contributor.author | Oinonen, Soile | |
dc.contributor.author | Paltriguera, Lucille | |
dc.contributor.author | Roberts, Louise | |
dc.contributor.author | Uyarra, Maria C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Austen, Melanie C. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-10T11:30:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-10-10T11:30:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-10-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Börger , T , Broszeit , S , Ahtiainen , H , Atkins , J , Burdon , D , Luisetti , T , Murrillas , A , Oinonen , S , Paltriguera , L , Roberts , L , Uyarra , M C & Austen , M C 2016 , ' Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt ' , Frontiers in Marine Science , vol. 3 , 192 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00192 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2296-7745 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 246115649 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: d4f7f30e-3da2-47aa-be5e-5832bffda219 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85008608294 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000457358000189 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/9634 | |
dc.description | This manuscript is a result of DEVOTES (DEVelopment Of innovative Tools for understanding marine biodiversity and assessing good Environmental Status) project, funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme, ‘The Ocean of Tomorrow’ Theme (grant agreement no. 308392), www.devotes-project.eu. María C. Uyarra is partially funded through the Spanish programme for Talent and Employability in R + D + I “Torres Quevedo”. Melanie Austen and Stefanie Broszeit are partially funded by the Marine Ecosystems Research Programme, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (grant number NE/L003279/1). | en |
dc.description.abstract | The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires Member States to assess the costs and benefits of Programmes of Measures (PoMs) put in place to ensure that European marine waters achieve Good Environmental Status by 2020. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to carry out such an assessment whereby economic analysis is used to evaluate the outputs from ecological analysis that determines the expected effects of such management measures. This paper applies and tests an existing six-step approach to assess costs and benefits of management measures with potential to support the overall goal of the MSFD and discusses a range of ecological and economic analytical tools applicable to this task. Environmental cost-benefit analyses are considered for selected PoMs in three European case studies: Baltic Sea (Finland), East Coast Marine Plan area (UK) and the Bay of Biscay (Spain). These contrasting case studies are used to investigate the application of environmental cost-benefit analysis including the challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt from using this approach. This paper demonstrates that there are opportunities in applying the six-step environmental cost-benefit analysis framework presented to assess the impact of PoMs. However, given demonstrated limitations of knowledge and data availability, application of other economic techniques should also be considered (although not applied here) to complement the more formal environmental cost-benefit analysis approach. | |
dc.format.extent | 20 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Marine Science | en |
dc.rights | © 2016 Börger, Broszeit, Ahtiainen, Atkins, Burdon, Luisetti, Murillas, Oinonen, Paltriguera, Roberts, Uyarra and Austen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. | en |
dc.subject | MSFD | en |
dc.subject | Environmental cost-benefit analysis | en |
dc.subject | Benefit transfer | en |
dc.subject | Ecosystem services | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.title | Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00192 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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