TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling benefits from nature
T2 - Using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning
AU - Guerry, Anne D.
AU - Ruckelshaus, Mary H.
AU - Arkema, Katie K.
AU - Bernhardt, Joey R.
AU - Guannel, Gregory
AU - Kim, Choong Ki
AU - Marsik, Matthew
AU - Papenfus, Michael
AU - Toft, Jodie E.
AU - Verutes, Gregory
AU - Wood, Spencer A.
AU - Beck, Michael
AU - Chan, Francis
AU - Chan, Kai M.A.
AU - Gelfenbaum, Guy
AU - Gold, Barry D.
AU - Halpern, Benjamin S.
AU - Labiosa, William B.
AU - Lester, Sarah E.
AU - Levin, Phil S.
AU - McField, Melanie
AU - Pinsky, Malin L.
AU - Plummer, Mark
AU - Polasky, Stephen
AU - Ruggiero, Peter
AU - Sutherland, David A.
AU - Tallis, Heather
AU - Day, Andrew
AU - Spencer, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for funding for this work.
PY - 2012/6/1
Y1 - 2012/6/1
N2 - People around the world are looking to marine ecosystems to provide additional benefits to society. As they consider expanding current uses and investing in new ones, new management approaches are needed that will sustain the delivery of the diverse benefits that people want and need. An ecosystem services framework provides metrics for assessing the quantity, quality, and value of benefits obtained from different portfolios of uses. Such a framework has been developed for assessments on land, and is now being developed for application to marine ecosystems. Here, we present marine Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), a new tool to assess (i.e., map, model, and value) multiple services provided by marine ecosystems. It allows one to estimate changes in a suite of services under different management scenarios and to investigate trade-offs among the scenarios, including implications of drivers like climate. We describe key inputs and outputs of each of the component ecosystem service models and present results from an application to the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The results demonstrate how marine InVEST can be used to help shape the dialogue and inform decision making in a marine spatial planning context.
AB - People around the world are looking to marine ecosystems to provide additional benefits to society. As they consider expanding current uses and investing in new ones, new management approaches are needed that will sustain the delivery of the diverse benefits that people want and need. An ecosystem services framework provides metrics for assessing the quantity, quality, and value of benefits obtained from different portfolios of uses. Such a framework has been developed for assessments on land, and is now being developed for application to marine ecosystems. Here, we present marine Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), a new tool to assess (i.e., map, model, and value) multiple services provided by marine ecosystems. It allows one to estimate changes in a suite of services under different management scenarios and to investigate trade-offs among the scenarios, including implications of drivers like climate. We describe key inputs and outputs of each of the component ecosystem service models and present results from an application to the West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The results demonstrate how marine InVEST can be used to help shape the dialogue and inform decision making in a marine spatial planning context.
KW - Vancouver Island
KW - coastal and marine spatial planning
KW - decision support tool
KW - ecological production function
KW - marine InVEST
KW - modeling marine ecosystem services
KW - scenario
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U2 - 10.1080/21513732.2011.647835
DO - 10.1080/21513732.2011.647835
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84861352210
SN - 2151-3732
VL - 8
SP - 107
EP - 121
JO - International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services and Management
JF - International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services and Management
IS - 1-2
ER -