Valuing biodiversity and ecosystem services: a useful way to manage and conserve marine resources?

ABSTRACT: Valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) is widely recognized as a useful, though often controversial, approach to conservation and management. However, its use in the marine environment, hence evidence of its efficacy, lags behind that in terrestrial ecosystems. This largely reflects key challenges to marine conservation and management such as the practical difficulties in studying the ocean, complex governance issues and the historically-rooted separation of biodiversity conservation and resource management. Given these challenges together with the accelerating loss of marine biodiversity (and threats to the ES that this biodiversity supports), we ask whether valuation efforts for marine ecosystems are appropriate and effective. We compare three contrasting systems: the trop

SUBMITTER: Cavanagh RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5204147 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature