Upgrading Marine Ecosystem Restoration Using Ecological‐Social Concepts

Upgrading Marine Ecosystem Restoration Using Ecological‐Social Concepts

Conservation and environmental management are principal countermeasures to the degradation of marine ecosystems and their services. However, in many cases, current practices are insufficient to reverse ecosystem declines. We suggest that restoration ecology, the science underlying the concepts and tools needed to restore ecosystems, must be recognized as an integral element for marine conservat...

Ecosystem Restoration and Management: Scientific Principles and Concepts

Strategic Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Northern British Columbia

Innovative methodology is developed for Back to the Future (BTF) restoration policy analysis to aid long-term strategic planning of ecosystem-based restoration in marine ecosystems. Massbalance and dynamic ecosystem simulation models (Ecopath with Ecosim: EwE) are developed to represent the marine system of northern British Columbia as it appeared in 1750, 1900, 1950 and 2000 AD. Time series st...

Generational Cost Benefit Analysis for Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Restoration

Conventional Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) tends to show that most ecosystem restoration programs are not worthwhile in economic terms. This is because discounting significantly reduces future net benefits from restoration, since benefits are discounted using the time perspective (i.e., the discounting clock) of the current generation only. I propose the use of what is termed Generational CBA, wh...

Microtopography recreation benefits ecosystem restoration.

Wei Wei,*,† Liding Chen,† Lei Yang,† F. Fred Samadani,‡ and Ge Sun †State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China ‡Environmental and Water Resources Management Consultant, Rockville, Maryland 20850, United States Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, ...