FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Of sets of offsets: Cumulative impacts and strategies for compensatory restoration
BT 
AF THEBAUD, Olivier
   BOSCHETTI, Fabio
   JENNINGS, Sarah
   SMITH, Anthony D.M.
   PASCOE, Sean
AS 1:1,6;2:2,3;3:4;4:5;5:1,6;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-EM;2:;3:;4:;5:;
C1 CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Flagship, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
   IFREMER, UMR M101, AMURE, Unite Econ Maritime, Brest, France.
   Univ Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.
   Univ Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, Australia.
   CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Flagship, Hobart, Tas, Australia.
   Queensland Univ Technol, Sch Econ & Finance, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia.
C2 CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
   UNIV TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA
   CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
   UNIV QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
SI BREST
SE PDG-RBE-EM
UM AMURE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.275
TC 13
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00270/38156/36312.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Biodiversity offsets;Compensatory restoration;Cumulative impacts;Habitat-resource interactions;Bio-economic modelling;Social acceptability
AB Biodiversity offsets are increasingly advocated as a flexible approach to managing the ecological costs of economic development. Arguably, however, this remains an area where policy-making has run ahead of science. A growing number of studies identify limitations of offsets in achieving ecologically sustainable outcomes, pointing to ethical and implementation issues that may undermine their effectiveness. We develop a novel system dynamic modelling framework to analyze the no net loss objective of development and biodiversity offsets. The modelling framework considers a marine-based example, where resource abundance depends on a habitat that is affected by a sequence of development projects, and biodiversity offsets are understood as habitat restoration actions. The model is used to explore the implications of four alternative offset management strategies for a regulator, which differ in how net loss is measured, and whether and how the cumulative impacts of development are considered. Our results confirm that, when it comes to offsets as a conservation tool, the devil lies in the details. Approaches to determining the magnitude of offsets required, as well as their timing and allocation among multiple developers, can result in potentially complex and undesired sets of economic incentives, with direct impacts on the ability to meet the overall objective of ecologically sustainable development. The approach and insights are of direct interest to conservation policy design in a broad range of marine and coastal contexts.
PY 2015
PD SEP
SO Ecological Modelling
SN 0304-3800
PU Elsevier Science Bv
VL 312
UT 000358469200011
BP 114
EP 124
DI 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.04.022
ID 38156
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