Developing ecosystem accounts for the marine and coastal environment: Limitations, opportunities and lessons learned from the United Kingdom experience

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Grilli, Gaetano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-167X, Luisetti, Tiziana, Thornton, Ann and Donovan, Deanna (2021) Developing ecosystem accounts for the marine and coastal environment: Limitations, opportunities and lessons learned from the United Kingdom experience. Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, 8 (2). ISSN 2373-8456

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Abstract

The marine and coastal environment provides crucial ecosystem services to sustain human activities and wellbeing. Advancing measurement frameworks to record the contribution of marine and coastal ecosystems to national wealth and economies and assess the sustainability of their use is therefore paramount. The recently proposed Ocean Accounting Framework outlined within the System of Environmental Economic Accounting represents a decisive step in this direction and provides a foundation for developing an integrated and standardised set of ecosystem accounts to support decision making and use of the seas. However, the ecological and socio-economic complexities of marine and coastal systems pose several challenges in compiling ecosystem accounts. This paper aims to discuss lessons learned, limitations and opportunities based on experience of developing an initial set of marine and coastal accounts for the United Kingdom. The paper reviews and addresses the challenges encountered and offers potential solutions for improving the measurement of marine and coastal ecosystems within accounting frameworks.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	economics and econometrics,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... https://cbe.miis.edu/joce/vol8/iss2/4
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Jan 2022 08:30
Last Modified:	24 Jul 2023 08:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83088
DOI:	10.15351/2373-8456.1145

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