Cost-efficiency assessments of marine monitoring methods lack rigor-a systematic mapping of literature and an end-user view on optimal cost-efficiency analysis.

ABSTRACT: Global deterioration of marine ecosystems, together with increasing pressure to use them, has created a demand for new, more efficient and cost-efficient monitoring tools that enable assessing changes in the status of marine ecosystems. However, demonstrating the cost-efficiency of a monitoring method is not straightforward as there are no generally applicable guidelines. Our study provides a systematic literature mapping of methods and criteria that have been proposed or used since the year 2000 to evaluate the cost-efficiency of marine monitoring methods. We aimed to investigate these methods but discovered that examples of actual cost-efficiency assessments in literature were rare, contradicting the prevalent use of the term "cost-efficiency." We identified five different ways to compar

SUBMITTER: Hyvarinen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8187199 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature