Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt
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 assess...
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doaj-f6444615ec9e4d37ad93d32f2c8f16a32020-11-25T01:03:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452016-10-01310.3389/fmars.2016.00192215404Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learntTobias Börger0Tobias Börger1Stefanie Broszeit2Heini Ahtiainen3Jonathan P Atkins4Daryl Burdon5Tiziana Luisetti6Arantza Murillas7Soile Oinonen8Lucille Paltriguera9Louise Roberts10Maria C Uyarra11Melanie C Austen12University of St AndrewsPlymouth Marine LaboratoryPlymouth Marine LaboratoryNatural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)Hull University Business SchoolInstitute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies, University of HullCentre for Environment, Fish and Aquaculture ScienceAZTI TecnaliaFinnish Environment Institute (SYKE)Centre for Environment, Fish and Aquaculture ScienceInstitute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies, University of HullAZTI TecnaliaPlymouth Marine LaboratoryThe 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.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2016.00192/fullNorth Seaecosystem servicesBaltic SeaBay of BiscayMSFDBenefit transfer |
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Tobias Börger Tobias Börger Stefanie Broszeit Heini Ahtiainen Jonathan P Atkins Daryl Burdon Tiziana Luisetti Arantza Murillas Soile Oinonen Lucille Paltriguera Louise Roberts Maria C Uyarra Melanie C Austen |
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Tobias Börger Tobias Börger Stefanie Broszeit Heini Ahtiainen Jonathan P Atkins Daryl Burdon Tiziana Luisetti Arantza Murillas Soile Oinonen Lucille Paltriguera Louise Roberts Maria C Uyarra Melanie C Austen Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt Frontiers in Marine Science North Sea ecosystem services Baltic Sea Bay of Biscay MSFD Benefit transfer |
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Tobias Börger Tobias Börger Stefanie Broszeit Heini Ahtiainen Jonathan P Atkins Daryl Burdon Tiziana Luisetti Arantza Murillas Soile Oinonen Lucille Paltriguera Louise Roberts Maria C Uyarra Melanie C Austen |
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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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Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt |
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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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Assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve Good Environmental Status in European regional seas: Challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt |
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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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assessing costs and benefits of measures to achieve good environmental status in european regional seas: challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt |
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Frontiers Media S.A. |
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Frontiers in Marine Science |
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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. |
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North Sea ecosystem services Baltic Sea Bay of Biscay MSFD Benefit transfer |
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