This study represents a progress of results obtained in the context of EAMPA (Environmental Accounting in Marine Protected Areas) Italian project. EAMPA project, launched by Italian environmental Ministry in 2014 and ended in 2018, aimed at providing to Marine Protected Areas (MPA) managers an operational tool for environmental accounting. At this purpose a specific framework to assess natural capital values and to obtain a budget considering ecosystem services has been applied in several national MPAs. Here, an upgraded version of the framework, developed in the context of GIREPAM EU Interreg Project, is proposed. The formulated approach implements some additional and key feature, that can represent a significant improvement to the model. First, two budgets are proposed and then compared, the environmental and the economic ones, aiming at achieving sustainability of both domains. Moreover, as far as the ecological part is considered: 1) the final result, initially represented by modified the budget, is replaced with a strong sustainability assessment; 2) impacts directly exerted on MPA natural capital, and associated with ecosystem services fruition by MPA's customers, are taken into account and included in the budget; 3) sustainability maps are generated; 4) a Spatial Decision Support System for MPA managers is obtained. The upgraded framework represents a practical tool to operationalise the sustainability assessment and to monitor sustainability level. Moreover, the framework puts in practice the so-called “ecosystem services cascade”,

Towards strong sustainability: a framework for economic and ecological management of Marine Protected Areas.

Paoli C.;Vassallo P.;Pozzi M.;Massa F.;Rigo I.;Vannini M.;Povero P.;Dapueto G.
2020-01-01

Abstract

This study represents a progress of results obtained in the context of EAMPA (Environmental Accounting in Marine Protected Areas) Italian project. EAMPA project, launched by Italian environmental Ministry in 2014 and ended in 2018, aimed at providing to Marine Protected Areas (MPA) managers an operational tool for environmental accounting. At this purpose a specific framework to assess natural capital values and to obtain a budget considering ecosystem services has been applied in several national MPAs. Here, an upgraded version of the framework, developed in the context of GIREPAM EU Interreg Project, is proposed. The formulated approach implements some additional and key feature, that can represent a significant improvement to the model. First, two budgets are proposed and then compared, the environmental and the economic ones, aiming at achieving sustainability of both domains. Moreover, as far as the ecological part is considered: 1) the final result, initially represented by modified the budget, is replaced with a strong sustainability assessment; 2) impacts directly exerted on MPA natural capital, and associated with ecosystem services fruition by MPA's customers, are taken into account and included in the budget; 3) sustainability maps are generated; 4) a Spatial Decision Support System for MPA managers is obtained. The upgraded framework represents a practical tool to operationalise the sustainability assessment and to monitor sustainability level. Moreover, the framework puts in practice the so-called “ecosystem services cascade”,
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