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Evaluating tradeoffs among ecosystem services to inform marine spatial planning

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  • A central challenge for natural resource management is developing rigorous yet practical approaches for balancing the costs and benefits of diverse human uses of ecosystems. Economic theory has a long history of evaluating tradeoffs in returns from different assets to identify optimal investment strategies. There has been recent progress applying this framework to the delivery of ecosystem services in land use planning. However, despite growing national and international interest in marine spatial planning, we lack parallel frameworks in the marine realm. This paper reviews an ecosystem service tradeoff analysis framework and provides a more comprehensive synthesis for how it can be applied to marine spatial planning and marine ecosystem-based management. A tradeoff analysis approach can reveal inferior management options, demonstrate the benefits of comprehensive planning for multiple, interacting services over managing single services, and identify ‘compatible’ services that provide win-win management options.
  • Keywords: marine spatial planning, efficiency frontier, ecosystem based management, tradeoff analysis, economics, ecosystem services
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  • Lester, S. E., Costello, C., Halpern, B. S., Gaines, S. D., White, C., & Barth, J. A. (2013). Evaluating tradeoffs among ecosystem services to inform marine spatial planning. Marine Policy, 38, 80-89. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.05.022
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  • This work stemmed from the California Current Ecosystem-Based Management (CCEBM) initiative, facilitated by the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) and the University of California, Santa Cruz and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.Additional support was provided by the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies for Coastal Oceans (PISCO; contribution number xx), the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (S.D.G., C.C., S.E.L., C.W.), NSF grants OCE-0527168 and OCE-0453071 (J.A.B.), and a grant from the Packard Foundation to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (B.S.H.).
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