An ecosystem services approach to assess managed realignment coastal policy in England

Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment

Volumn , Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-25

  Luisetti, Tiziana ^a   Turner, Kerry ^a   Bateman, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Cost benefit analysis; Ecosystem services; Managed realignment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOOD; MARINE POLICY; SALTMARSH;

BLACKWATER ESTUARY; ENGLAND; ESSEX [ENGLAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 59349097079     PISSN: 09678875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Andrews, J., Burgess, D., Cave, R., Coombes, E.G., Jickells, T., Park, D., and Turner, R.K. (2006) Biogechemical value of managed realignment, Humber Estuary, UK, Science of the Total Environment 371:19-30.
2. Balmford, A., Bruner, A., Cooper, P., Costanza, R., Farber, S., Green, R., Jenkins, M., Jefferiss, P., Jessamy, V., Madden, J., Munro, K., Myers, N., Naeem, S., Paavola, J., Rayment, M., Rosendo, S., Roughgarden, J., Trumper, J., and Turner, R.K. (2002) Economic reasons for conserving wild nature, Science 297: 950-953.
3. Barbier, E.B. (2000) Valuing the environment as input: review of applications to mangrove-fishery linkages, Ecological Economics 35: 47-61.
4. Barbier, E.B. (1994) Valuing Environmental Functions: Tropical Wetlands, Land Economics 70(2): 155-73.
5. Bateman, I.J., Day, B.H., Georgiou, S. and Lake, I. (2006) The aggregation of environmental benefit values: Welfare measures, distance decay and total WTP, Ecological Economics 60(2): 450-460. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/i.ecolecon.2006.04.003
6. Bockstael, N., Freeman, A. M., Kopp, R., Portney, P., and Smith, V. K. (2000) On valuing nature, Environmental Science and Technology 34:1384-1389.
7. Boyd, J. and Banzhaf, S. (2007) What are ecosystem services? The need for standardized environmental accounting units, Ecological Economics 63: 616-626.
8. Brower, R., Lngford, I.H., Bateman, I.J. and Turner, R.K. (1999) A meta-nalysis of wetland contingent valuation studies, Regional Environmental Change 1 (1): 47-57.
9. Costanza, R., dArge, R. et al. (1997) The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital, Nature 387(6630): 253-260.
10. Daily, G.C. and Ellison, K. (2002) The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, Island Press, Washington.
11. Daily, G.C. (1997) Nature's services: societal dependence on natural ecosystems, Washington, DC, Island Press.
12. Fisher, B., Turner, R.K., Costanza, R. and Morling, P. (2008) Defining and Classifying Ecosystem Services for Decision Making, Ecological Economics, forthcoming
13. French, P.W. (2006) Managed realignment - the developoing story of a comparatively new approach to soft engineering, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 76: 409-423.
14. Halcrow (2007) Blackwater and Colne estuaries flood defence strategy, Technical Report, Report to the Environment Agency, forthcoming.
15. HMT (2003) Green Book: Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government, HMSO, London.
16. Jickells, T., Andrews, J., Samways, G., Sanders, R., Malcom, S., Sivyer, D., Nedwell, D., Trimmer, M. and Ridways, J. (2000) Nutrient fluxes through the Humber estuary - past, present and future, Ambio, 29:130-135.
17. Li, H., Berrens, R.P., Bohara, A.K., Jenkins-Smith, H.C., Silva, C.L., and Weimer, D.L. (2004) Would developing country commitments affect US households support for a modified Kyoto protocol? Ecological Economics 48: 329-343.
18. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Washington, DC, Island Press.
19. Pearce, D. (2003) The social cost of carbon and its policy implications, Oxford Review Economic Policy, 19(3): 1-32.
20. Pearce, D., Cline, W.R., Achanta, A.N., Fankhauser, S., Pachauri, R.K., Toi, R.S.J, and Vellinga, P. (1996) The social cost of climate change: greenhouse damage and the benefits of control. In: Bruce, J.P., Lee, H. and Haites, E.F. (eds.) Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions - Contribution of Working Group III to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp179-224.
21. Penning-Rowsell, E. C., Jonhnson, C., Tunstall, S., Tapsell, S., Morris, J., Chatterton, J., and Green, C. (2005). The Benefits of Flood and Coastal Risk Management: A Handbook of Assessment Techniques, Middlesex University Press, London.
22. Randall, A. (2002) B-C considerations should be decisive when there is nothing more important at stake. In: Bromly, D. and Paavola, J. (eds.) Economies, ethics and environmental policy, Blackwell, Oxford.
23. Shepherd, D., Burgess, D., Jickells, T., Andrews, J., Cave, R., Turner, R.K., Aldridge, J., Parker, E. R. and Young, E. (2007) Modelling the effects and economics of managed realignment on the cycling and storage of nutrients, carbon and sediments in the Blackwater estuary UK, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 73: 355-367.
24. Tol, R.S.J. (2005) The marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions: an assessment of the uncertainties, Energy Policy 33: 2064-2074.
25. Turner, R.K. (2007) Limits to CBA in UK and European environmental policy: retrospects and future prospects, Environment and Resource Economics 37: 253-269.
26. Turner, R.K., Burgess, D., Hadley, D., Coombes, E. and Jackson, N. (2007) A cost-benefit appraisal of coastal managed realignment policy, Global Environmental Change 17: 397-407.
27. Wallace, K.J. (2007) Classification of ecosystem services: Problems and solutions, Biological Conservation 139:235-246.
28. Weitzman, M.L. (2001) Gamma discounting, American Economic Review 91: 260-271.
29. Woodward, R.T. and Wui, Y. (2001) The economic value of wetland services: a meta-analysis, Ecological Economics 37: 257-270.