A Framework for Estimating Economic Impacts of Ecological Restoration

IF 2.7 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Management Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI:10.1007/s00267-024-02040-x

Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Christopher Huber, Kristin E. Skrabis, Timothy B. Hoelzle

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Abstract

Ecological restoration projects are designed to improve natural and cultural resources. Spending on restoration also stimulates economic impacts to the restoration economy through the creation or support of jobs and business activity. This paper presents accessible methods for quantifying the economic impacts supported by restoration spending and is written to be a guide and toolbox for an interdisciplinary audience of restoration practitioners and economists. Measuring the economic impacts of restoration can be challenging due to lacking or limited data. The complex, collaborative, and heterogeneous nature of restoration projects can make it difficult to clearly track costs, contributing to limited availability and inconsistency in restoration cost data. And business classification systems, such as the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS), do not include restoration-sectors that consistently describe the patterns of restoration spending. The aims of this paper are to (1) provide restoration practitioners and program managers with a clear understanding of the application of economic impact analyses to restoration, (2) provide a framework for collecting project cost data for economic impact analyses, and (3) provide modeling best practices and an example application of the framework.

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估算生态恢复经济影响的框架。

生态恢复项目旨在改善自然和文化资源。通过创造或支持工作岗位和商业活动，修复支出也会对修复经济产生经济影响。本文介绍了量化恢复支出所支持的经济影响的简便方法，旨在为恢复实践者和经济学家等跨学科受众提供指南和工具箱。由于缺乏数据或数据有限，衡量恢复的经济影响可能具有挑战性。由于恢复项目具有复杂性、协作性和异质性，因此很难对成本进行明确跟踪，导致恢复成本数据的可用性有限且不一致。而商业分类系统，如北美工业分类系统（NAICS），并不包括能一致描述修复支出模式的修复行业。本文的目的是：（1）让修复从业人员和项目管理人员清楚地了解经济影响分析在修复中的应用；（2）提供一个为经济影响分析收集项目成本数据的框架；（3）提供建模的最佳实践和该框架的应用实例。

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Environmental Management 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

2.90%

发文量

178

审稿时长

12 months

期刊介绍： Environmental Management offers research and opinions on use and conservation of natural resources, protection of habitats and control of hazards, spanning the field of environmental management without regard to traditional disciplinary boundaries. The journal aims to improve communication, making ideas and results from any field available to practitioners from other backgrounds. Contributions are drawn from biology, botany, chemistry, climatology, ecology, ecological economics, environmental engineering, fisheries, environmental law, forest sciences, geosciences, information science, public affairs, public health, toxicology, zoology and more. As the principal user of nature, humanity is responsible for ensuring that its environmental impacts are benign rather than catastrophic. Environmental Management presents the work of academic researchers and professionals outside universities, including those in business, government, research establishments, and public interest groups, presenting a wide spectrum of viewpoints and approaches.