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EU project: Coral reefs in a changing world - ecosystemic services from coral reefs: public policy tools for decision making in New Caledonia and French Polynesia (BEST-CORAL)
Project
Project code: vTI-SF-08-78
Contract period: 01.09.2012
- 31.08.2015
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
In a context of global change (demographic and climate change), its aims is to provide a set of methods to evaluate ecosystem services from coral reefs for public policy decision-making for the present and the future. The action's goal is to understand today the relationships between four ecosystem services (Protection and habitat, Production services, Cultural services, Regulating services) in order to anticipate future decisions through scenarios of governance. For each ecosystem services, the program will be able to propose a referred method to compare and evaluate the advantages and the limits (both biological, economic, anthropological and political) of the method used. The theories and methods proposed will be tested on two case studies in the European OCTs of the Pacific. Thanks to the results from case studies, the program will produce a set of valuation methods useful for decision-making. Stakeholders (public and private) will be engaged to discuss modeling and scenarios proposed to manage present and future marine areas for sustainable development. It is a major contribution to the science policy interface and for evaluating implemented or planned public policies in a context of global change.
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Subjects
- Marine fisheries
- Agroecology
- Agricultural Policy
- Climate Change
