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PT J
TI Using Habitat Equivalency Analysis to Assess the Cost Effectiveness of Restoration Outcomes in Four Institutional Contexts
BT 
AF SCEMAMA, Pierre
   LEVREL, Harold
AS 1:1;2:1,2;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-EM;2:PDG-RBE-EM;
C1 IFREMER, UMR AMURE, Marine Econ Unit, ZI Pointe Diable, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   AgroParisTech, UMR CIRED, F-94736 Nogent Sur Marne, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   AGROPARISTECH, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-RBE-EM
UM AMURE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
IF 1.878
TC 8
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00311/42256/44230.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Wetland restoration;Equivalency tool;Ecosystem services;Cost effectiveness
AB At the national level, with a fixed amount of resources available for public investment in the restoration of biodiversity, it is difficult to prioritize alternative restoration projects. One way to do this is to assess the level of ecosystem services delivered by these projects and to compare them with their costs. The challenge is to derive a common unit of measurement for ecosystem services in order to compare projects which are carried out in different institutional contexts having different goals (application of environmental laws, management of natural reserves, etc.). This paper assesses the use of habitat equivalency analysis (HEA) as a tool to evaluate ecosystem services provided by restoration projects developed in different institutional contexts. This tool was initially developed to quantify the level of ecosystem services required to compensate for non-market impacts coming from accidental pollution in the US. In this paper, HEA is used to assess the cost effectiveness of several restoration projects in relation to different environmental policies, using case studies based in France. Four case studies were used: the creation of a market for wetlands, public acceptance of a port development project, the rehabilitation of marshes to mitigate nitrate loading to the sea, and the restoration of streams in a protected area. Our main conclusion is that HEA can provide a simple tool to clarify the objectives of restoration projects, to compare the cost and effectiveness of these projects, and to carry out trade-offs, without requiring significant amounts of human or technical resources.
PY 2016
PD JAN
SO Environmental Management
SN 0364-152X
PU Springer
VL 57
IS 1
UT 000367917900008
BP 109
EP 122
DI 10.1007/s00267-015-0598-6
ID 42256
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