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Bartolini, Alice, Di Gennaro, Valentina 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8731-7112, Reas, Vittoria, Mascolo, Rosa Anna, La Notte, Alessandra, Capriolo, Alessio and Ferrini, Silvia
(2024)
Ecosystem accounting for marine-based tourism provided by Posidonia oceanica in Italy.
One Ecosystem, 9.
ISSN 2367-8194
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Abstract
This work presents the first ecosystem accounts for Marine-Based Tourism (MBT) in Italy. We develop a methodological approach to connect biophysical and economic information required to fill ecosystem accounting supply and use tables. Coherent with the System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) framework, this approach starts by estimating the extent and the condition of marine ecosystems, showing the urgency in improving the availability, organisation and accessibility of biophysical data. This work provides valuable insights into understanding MBT from an ecosystem accounting perspective. We focus on the Posidonia oceanica and its role in the MBT sector in Italy, providing a physical quantification of such contribution and converting this flow into monetary terms. Our findings show that such habitat significantly contributes to the tourism sector, resulting in exchange values of MBT of €6 million in 2019 and €3.7 million in 2021.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: Valentina di Gennaro worked on this study in the framework of the MARBEFES (MARine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning leading to Ecosystem Services) project, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme, \u201CHORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01\u201D Theme, Grant Agreement no. 101060937 [marbefes.eu]. The work of Alice Bartolini was co-founded by the European Union - FSE REACT-EU, NOP Research and Innovation 2014-2020. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ecosystem accounting,ecosystem services,posidonia oceanica,supply and use tables,tourism,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,ecology,agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous),nature and landscape conservation,earth and planetary sciences (miscellaneous),sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| 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) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2024 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2024 06:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96833 |
| DOI: | 10.3897/oneeco.9.e129751 |
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