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Title: What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary?
Authors: Pascual, M.; Borja, Angel; Franco, Javier; Burdon, D.; Atkins, J. P.; Elliott, M.
Citation: WATER RESEARCH, 2012, 46, 205-217
Abstract: Biodiversity recovery measures have often been ignored when dealing with the restoration of degraded aquatic systems. Furthermore, biological valuation methods have been applied only spatially in previous studies, and not jointly on a temporal and spatial scale. The intense monitoring efforts carried out in a highly polluted estuary, in northern Spain (Nervion estuary), allowed for the economic valuation of the costs and the biological valuation of the benefits associated with a 21 years sewage scheme application. The analysis show that the total amount of money invested into the sewage scheme has contributed to the estuary's improvement of both environmental and biological features, as well as to an increase in the uses and services provided by the estuary. However, the inner and outer parts of the estuary showed different responses. An understanding of the costs and trajectories of the environmental recovery of degraded aquatic systems is increasingly necessary to allow policy makers and regulators to formulate robust, cost-efficient and feasible management decisions. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Biodiversity valuation; Water treatment investment; Recovery of aquatic systems; Nervion estuary; Basque country; MARINE BIOLOGICAL VALUATION; LONG-TERM; ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; WATER-QUALITY; N. SPAIN; RESTORATION; COASTAL; BILBAO; ECOSYSTEMS
Issue Date: 2012
Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Type: Article
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.10.053
URI: http://dspace.azti.es/handle/24689/632
ISSN: 0043-1354
Funder: Consorcio de Aguas Bilbao-Bizkaia
European Union [226273]
Technological Centres Foundation of the Basque Country
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