FN Archimer Export Format PT C TI Assessing the maintenance costs of marine ecosystems in the context of the MSFD: the French experience BT AF MONGRUEL, Remi LEVREL, Harold BAILLY, Denis AS 1:1;2:2;3:3; FF 1:PDG-RBE-EM;2:;3:; C1 Ifremer, UMR Amure, Marine Economics Unit, France AgroParisTech, UMR CIRED, France Brest University, UMR Amure, France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE AGROPARISTECH, FRANCE UEB, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-RBE-EM UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00412/52338/53125.pdf LA English DT Proceedings paper AB This short paper presents the approach which has been implemented in France for estimating the costs of ecosystem degradation in the context of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Among the possible approaches, forgone benefits assessment or maintenance costs assessment, France decided to use the latter. The paper contains an introduction, a section which explains how to choose an economic approach coherent with the MSFD rationale, a section which exposes the methodology developed for implementing the approach, and a section on the main results. PY 2016 CT 4th International Conference on Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe 2015. Proceedings of the Conference Stralsund, Germany, 14 - 18 September 2015. Editors Henning von Nordheim Katrin Wollny Goerke. 2016. ISBN 978-3-89624-188-7. BfN-Skripten 451. pp.172-178 ID 52338 ER EF