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{"title":"Linking natural capital stocks with ecosystem services in the Northern Baltic Sea","authors":"Susanna Jernberg ,&nbsp;Harri Kuosa ,&nbsp;Christoffer Boström ,&nbsp;Daryl Burdon ,&nbsp;Fiia Haavisto ,&nbsp;Anna-Stiina Heiskanen ,&nbsp;Suvi Kiviluoto ,&nbsp;Sanna Kuningas ,&nbsp;Mervi Kunnasranta ,&nbsp;Laura Uusitalo ,&nbsp;Anna Villnäs ,&nbsp;Mats Westerbom ,&nbsp;Kirsi Kostamo","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101585","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101585","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Baltic Sea is a heavily used marine area in Northern Europe delivering valuable services to the inhabitants of its surrounding countries. Understanding how the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems deliver ecosystem services is still limited. However, this information is increasingly needed for ecosystem accounting, marine spatial planning and managing natural resources sustainably. In this study we reviewed ecosystem services provided by marine natural capital, i.e. the elements in the environment that are essential for providing the services. Altogether 48 habitats belonging to 8 habitat groups, and 11 mobile species (i.e. fish and pinnipeds) were assessed using literature and expert knowledge in the Northern Baltic Sea. To our knowledge, this is the first time when all habitats are included in an ecosystem services assessment in the area. The results show that of all possible service linkages, 31–56% were identified for habitats (depending on the habitat group in question) and 28–51% of linkages could not be assessed because of the limited knowledge. For mobile species, 53% of all possible services linkages were recognized and 15% of linkages could not be assessed because of limited knowledge. The results demonstrate the importance of the marine habitats for delivering regulating services, particularly those mitigating harmful effects of human activities such as carbon and nutrient storages, and their importance to services that are yet to be discovered. The results also show that mobile species are particularly important for provisioning and cultural services. The current study supports on-going policies such as the Baltic Sea Action Plan and marine spatial planning by providing knowledge on ecosystem services that can be adopted into decision-making in the areas where the distribution and location of habitats and species are known. It also acts as a starting point for a more in-depth trade-offs analysis of different ecosystem services.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101585"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000785/pdfft?md5=6a1e8493f5da1d055ec4514d05eb42c9&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000785-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138743040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland","authors":"Kate Flood ,&nbsp;Marie Mahon ,&nbsp;John McDonagh","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101582","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101582","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ecosystem services (ES) concept emerged as a metaphor to demonstrate humanity’s dependence on the natural environment and is increasingly applied to frame human-nature relationships in conservation science, policy and practice. This paper aims to enhance understanding of how the ES concept is applied for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation in the Irish context, with further applicability to international contexts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with stakeholders involved in ES research, policy and practice to understand and reflect a variety of perspectives. Three contexts of ecosystem management in Ireland are examined as focal points for the ES framing: natural capital and ES research; Agri-Environment schemes as types of Payments for ES; and collaborative forms of governance for peatland conservation. Specifically, we examine the idea of conceptual innovation as a process where concepts evolve in time and space as they are applied by different societal actors. The contexts examined demonstrate a variety of perceptions and show the scope for agency in how concepts are applied when they meet local realities. The research also demonstrates how alternative concepts and ideas are continuously emerging in societal discourse, and suggests the need to develop ‘networks of concepts’ that can work together to manage the politics, power relations and inequities inherent in the application of any concept. Fostering transparency and reflection on values, language and how knowledge is produced helps make visible power dynamics underlying the ES concept and encourages the development of ES approaches that are effective, inclusive and actionable. Developing concepts from a process perspective has implications for changing the course of a concept as its future unfolds. Following from this, we suggest the need to map an emancipatory future agenda for ES research that centres the voices of those researching, participating and acting ‘from the margins’.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101582"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221204162300075X/pdfft?md5=bd748b4b049d09da169425a13e8cbd1f&pid=1-s2.0-S221204162300075X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138683355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping and assessment of lake ecosystem services in Lithuania","authors":"Miguel Inácio ,&nbsp;Manob Das ,&nbsp;Benjamin Burkhard ,&nbsp;Damià Barceló ,&nbsp;Paulo Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101589","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101589","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lakes provide essential Ecosystem Services (ES) that support human well-being. However, due to anthropogenic environmental degradation, lake ecosystem conditions and related ES supply are affected. To assess these impacts and ES supply alterations, mapping and assessing lake ES is key. Spatiotemporal lake ES studies are lacking, especially at the national scale. In this study, we mapped and assessed lake ES nationally in Lithuania. In total, 1032 lakes were considered. The supply of five ES were studied in 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018: 1) fibres and other materials for construction (fibres ES); 2) water for non-drinking purposes (water ES); 3) the maintenance of nursery populations (nursery ES); 4) the maintenance of freshwater chemical conditions (nutrient regulation ES), and 5) direct and indirect cultural outputs (recreation ES). For fibres ES, an increase over time was observed, following an increase in reed areas around the lakes. The results showed that significant differences among periods were identified in all ES except for water ES supply. Generally, the supply of fibres, nutrient, nursery and recreation ES increased between 1990 and 2018. Spatially, the north-eastern, central and easternmost parts of Lithuania showed a high supply of multiple ES (e.g., fibres ES, nutrient ES), while the western parts of the country were seen as essential for nursery ES supply. Except for water ES supply, all ES showed a clustered pattern. The hot–cold spots identified followed the areas of high and low ES supply. Bundle analysis identified three clusters. Recreation ES supply was not associated with fibres, nursery, nutrient, and water ES supply. Fibres, nursery, and nutrient ES supply were not related to water ES supply. The results obtained in this work are critical for better management and help to identify lakes that supply high and low ES.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101589"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000827/pdfft?md5=6eb555a389feaef525a766f5aede4eba&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000827-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138683403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the sentiment associated with cultural ecosystem services using images and text from social media","authors":"Ilan Havinga ,&nbsp;Diego Marcos ,&nbsp;Patrick Bogaart ,&nbsp;Devis Tuia ,&nbsp;Lars Hein","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101581","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social media is increasingly being employed to develop Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) indicators. The image-sharing platform Flickr has been one of the most popular sources of data. Most large-scale studies, however, tend to only use the number of images as a proxy for CES due to the challenges associated with processing large amounts of this data but this does not fully represent the benefit generated by ecosystems in terms of the positive experiences expressed by users in the associated text. To address this gap, we apply several Computer Vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) models to link CES estimates for Great Britain based on the content of images to sentiment measures using the accompanying text, and compare our results to a national, geo-referenced survey of recreational well-being in England. We find that the aesthetic quality of the landscape and the presence of particular wildlife results in more positive sentiment. However, we also find that different physical settings correlate with this sentiment and that sentiment is sometimes more strongly related to social activities than many natural factors. Still, we find significant associations between these CES measures, sentiment and survey data. Our findings illustrate that integrating sentiment analysis with CES measurement can capture some of the positive benefits associated with CES using social media. The additional detail provided by these novel techniques can help to develop more meaningful CES indicators for recreational land use management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101581"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000748/pdfft?md5=0cfdaaf95434f3f9a734925b0354e407&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000748-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138570183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland","authors":"Tomasz Grzyb","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101584","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban green and blue spaces play a key role in strengthening human-nature bonds as they offer a variety of opportunities to directly contact nature. They are robust providers of cultural ecosystem services (CES), non-material benefits arising from the interaction between people and nature. Recreation in green and blue spaces beneficially contributes to the well-being of urban dwellers in multiple ways, and the character of these contributions depends both on spaces’ features and visitors’ characteristics. The flow of CES related to the recreational use of urban parks and forests have been widely studied; however, much less attention has been paid to urban riverscapes. This study aimed to fill this gap by assessing benefits associated with the recreational use of urban rivers, and determining drivers that affect these experiences. Using the case of Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland, a citywide PPGIS survey was conducted to map several types of recreation-related benefits. Binomial logistic regression models were built to explain positive contributions to well-being as a function of attributes of visitors, spatiotemporal preferences of visits, and preferred activities. Survey participants highly assessed urban riverscape benefits, with the general tendency of highest scores to be clustered in the city core. Benefits vary in terms of drivers they are affected, with three main insights: (1) intellectual and emotional attachment to the riverscape is built through the long-term process of repetitive visits; (2) the devotion to nature is based on direct experiences, and strongly associated with sports; (3) on-water recreation underpins both emotional attachment to the river and social interactions. The results bring spatially explicit information on people’s attitudes towards the urban river, and underscore the complexity of links between people and the riverscape. The knowledge on spatiotemporal patterns and drivers affecting riverscape-related benefits may support the sustainable planning and management of nature-based recreation in cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101584"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000773/pdfft?md5=9a8b5d31db6b139b995d30d731d18deb&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000773-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138570181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science","authors":"Kate Thompson ,&nbsp;Kate Sherren ,&nbsp;Peter N. Duinker ,&nbsp;Mikiko Terashima ,&nbsp;Anders Hayden","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101579","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ecosystem services (ES) researchers have recognized the important role of urban planning decisions in influencing the quantity and distribution of ES in cities. However, knowledge about ES among planners is still modest, and more research is needed about planners’ experiences with ES. For this qualitative study, interviews and focus groups were conducted with actors with roles in urban planning in three Canadian cities. The aim was to understand participants’ knowledge of ES and how they use it. These early adopters were creative, practical, and politically astute in using ES ideas, rhetoric, and tools to build the case for natural urban ecosystems. ES was used in multiple and intersecting ways for awareness-raising, to justify the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems, to provide direction to plans, and to support and supplement existing planning approaches. The strategic use of ES was notable. As a boundary object, ES helped to bridge perspectives and to integrate policies. The ability of ES to facilitate policy coordination is promising. Further research on the effectiveness of ES to improve urban policy is needed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101579"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000724/pdfft?md5=47c5fa1d77cb66c4ff7e218cafef9fa1&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000724-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138557867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants","authors":"Mary Kathryn Rodgman ,&nbsp;Isabelle Anguelovski ,&nbsp;Carmen Pérez-del-Pulgar ,&nbsp;Galia Shokry ,&nbsp;Melissa Garcia-Lamarca ,&nbsp;James J.T. Connolly ,&nbsp;Francesc Baró ,&nbsp;Margarita Triguero-Mas","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As assessing urban ecosystem services and disservices is of rapidly growing interest in a context of increasingly urbanized environments, greater scholarly attention needs to be placed on how different informants perceive these services and disservices. Previous research in urban geography and planning has already pointed at the challenges of building inclusive natural outdoor environments such as green and blue spaces in gentrifying neighborhoods, particularly those undergoing green gentrification. In response, we analyze the ecosystem services and disservices identified by community and state respondents in seven cities with gentrifying neighborhoods, pronounced social inequalities, and where natural outdoor environments were created or improved: Amsterdam, Bristol, Cleveland, Lyon, Montreal, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. We found that in cities experiencing green gentrification, interviewees – particularly community informants – reported a wide array of ecosystem services and disservices, and identified some disservices previously under-studied (i.e. physical tiredness, low attractiveness and forced displacement). Our study illustrates how differences in decision making positions can impact perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices. Our study has implications for urban environmental planning decisions that will help maximize the ecosystem services provided by urban natural outdoor environments. Only if all perceived ecosystem services and disservices are considered, will it be possible to design green just cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101571"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000645/pdfft?md5=bb88977488f1c3f3c705f53f38a446f8&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000645-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138554170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces","authors":"Laura Costadone,&nbsp;Tin-Yu Lai,&nbsp;Pekka Hurskainen,&nbsp;Leena Kopperoinen","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101576","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban ecosystem accounting can provide the structure for systematically integrating the value of urban green spaces into management and decision making to support urban resilience and sustainability. However, there are very few instructive examples of urban ecosystem accounting, particularly those created collaboratively with a municipality. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop co-created urban ecosystem accounts using Tampere, Finland, as a case study. By discussing concrete political and planning-related needs, priorities, and data availability, this study identified urban flooding and the role of green spaces in alleviating this challenge as critical issues. An ecosystem extent account was compiled for accounting years 2012 and 2018 to quantify changes in the extent of ecosystem types. Additionally, an ecosystem service account (physical and monetary), for runoff retention, was compiled for the same years. The runoff retention service was quantified using the InVEST Urban Flood Risk Mitigation model, considering two precipitation events representative of rainstorms that trigger urban flooding. The runoff retention service was translated into service providing areas, which were used in conjunction with service demanding areas to estimate the physical terms of actual flows of retention service for accounting. The monetary value of the service was estimated using the avoided damage cost method. Between 2012 and 2018, the value of runoff mitigation service provided by green spaces increased by 7 % under the 24 mm scenario and by more than 40 % under the 50 mm scenario. The accounts showed concretely how important urban green spaces are in the City of Tampere, and provide an argument to preserve and even increase them in the urban structure. Our experiential ecosystem accounts for urban runoff retention service by green spaces also offer insights to other municipalities, encouraging them to take steps forward in ecosystem accounting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101576"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000694/pdfft?md5=20499f0b0449beaa1166e94c30efbc58&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000694-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138500943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changes in the value of ecosystem services due to watershed development in India’s Eastern Ghats and incentives for better stewardship","authors":"Suresh Kumar ,&nbsp;M Madhu ,&nbsp;Ranjay K Singh ,&nbsp;Rajesh Kaushal ,&nbsp;Ch. Jyotiprava Dash ,&nbsp;Hombe H.C. Gowda ,&nbsp;GW Barla","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101580"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000736/pdfft?md5=5d73fef7fb13f632102610c663b56153&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000736-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138472683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration","authors":"Micheli D. P. Costa ,&nbsp;Melissa Wartman ,&nbsp;Peter I. Macreadie ,&nbsp;Lawrance W. Ferns ,&nbsp;Rhiannon L. Holden ,&nbsp;Daniel Ierodiaconou ,&nbsp;Kimberley J. MacDonald ,&nbsp;Tessa K. Mazor ,&nbsp;Rebecca Morris ,&nbsp;Emily Nicholson ,&nbsp;Andrew Pomeroy ,&nbsp;Elisa A. Zavadil ,&nbsp;Mary Young ,&nbsp;Rohan Snartt ,&nbsp;Paul Carnell","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101574","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Coastal wetlands (i.e., mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses) have been recognised as an efficient natural climate solution to help mitigate and adapt to climate change. These ecosystems are also known to provide additional ecosystem services to coastal communities (e.g., fisheries and biodiversity enhancement, nutrient removal). Despite their importance to coasts and coastal communities, we lack spatially explicit information on the values of these ecosystems and the estimated return on investment from coastal management activities to rehabilitate them. Here, we aligned an environmental economic accounting framework combined with a scenario analysis to develop a set of accounts for mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses across the state of Victoria (Australia) as a case study, including the following ecosystem services: commercial and recreational fisheries, carbon and nitrogen sequestration, and coastal hazard mitigation. Importantly, we assessed the current extent, condition, and ecosystem services (physical and monetary) from these coastal ecosystems and examined how they could be improved through management actions. Overall, we found that the combined benefit (i.e., nitrogen and carbon sequestration, fisheries, and coastal hazard mitigation) provided by existing mangroves, saltmarshes, and seagrasses in Victoria is approximately AUD120.9 billion per year. Considering the management scenarios included in this study, our analysis showed that levee removal plus managed retreat had the highest cost at AUD7.6 billion; however, it also provided the highest net benefit of AUD134.8 trillion after 50 years, with a 5 % discount rate. In contrast, fencing was the cheapest management action to restore mangroves and saltmarshes, delivering more than AUD140 billion after 50 years. While our results demonstrate a large return on investment if coastal wetlands are restored at large scale, the implementation of small-scale projects is still a major challenge. However, this study demonstrates that an environmental economic accounting framework combined with a scenario analysis is a powerful approach to guide the decision-making process, providing critical information on the estimated return-on-investment from restoration of mangroves and saltmarshes, with encouraging implications of the impacts of actions at local scales.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"65 ","pages":"Article 101574"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041623000670/pdfft?md5=a9fb29e516a4cb5e29270f1ebe27907a&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041623000670-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138467888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}