Assessing the economic value of Posidonia oceanica (L.) at Tremiti Islands (Mediterranean Sea): An ecosystem condition-based approach.

Autor: Pisani D; Department of Economics, Management and Territory, University of Foggia, Via Alberto da Zara, 11, Foggia, Italy. Electronic address: domenico.pisani@unifg.it., De Lucia C; Department of Economics, Management and Territory, University of Foggia, Via Alberto da Zara, 11, Foggia, Italy., Pazienza P; Department of Economics, Management and Territory, University of Foggia, Via Alberto da Zara, 11, Foggia, Italy., Mastrototaro F; Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy; CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio, 9, 00196 Rome, Italy., Tursi A; Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125 Bari, Italy; CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio, 9, 00196 Rome, Italy., Chimienti G; CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio, 9, 00196 Rome, Italy; Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Marine pollution bulletin [Mar Pollut Bull] 2024 May; Vol. 202, pp. 116274. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116274
Abstrakt: In the context of limiting global warming, the seagrass Posidonia oceanica (L.) gained the centrality of several international climate change mitigation projects being the most effective carbon storage sink among Mediterranean seagrasses. To assess and monitor the change of environmental conditions and economic values of natural resources, the present study moves from the insights of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting to assess the economic value of the carbon sequestration and storage capacity of the Mediterranean-endemic seagrass P. oceanica at the Tremiti Islands Marine Protected Area. The economic value is compared across: i. the reference study by Pergent-Martini et al.; ii. the ecological condition-based approach; and iii. the unit value transfer. Based on the obtained outcomes, an ecosystem-based approach would prevent biases in the accounting of the ecosystem-service provision capacity of P. oceanica and help the policy maker to implement adequate public investment policies to mitigate its overall degradation.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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