Environmental Services of Beaches and Coastal Sand Dunes as a Tool for Their Conservation

Rodríguez-Revelo, Natalia; Espejel, Ileana; García, Concepción Arredondo; Ojeda-Revah, Lina; Vázquez, María Alejandra Sánchez

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58304-4_5

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“…It is important, through environmental education, to strengthen the knowledge of the stakeholders regarding supporting services. By providing a literature review, Rodriguez-Revelo et al [22] documented that the services of refuge from supporting and cognitive development from cultural services are the most important in the Baja California Peninsula. These findings contrast with our study because the perception of stakeholders seems supporting services as the less important.…”

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“…For example, these habitats constitute a natural protective barrier against hurricanes and high tides [19] because the sedimentation processes that occur within them act to prevent erosion [20]. Coastal dunes provide 28 ESs grouped into four categories, as proposed by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment [21]-1. provisioning (e.g., medicinal resources), 2. regulating (e.g., erosion prevention and control), 3. cultural (e.g., recreation), and 4. supporting (e.g., soil formation) services [17,22]. In addition to their importance at the ecosystem level, coastal dune systems are of socio-economic value given the tourism and urbanization observed around this environment [23].…”

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Perceptions and Social Values Regarding the Ecosystem Services of Beaches and Coastal Dunes in Yucatán, Mexico

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The ecosystem services (ESs) approach has been used as a powerful tool for the analysis of socio-ecological systems to investigate the relationship between society and the environment. The aim of this article is to analyze the social perceptions of stakeholders, forms of use (sociocultural and economic), and the conservation of beaches and coastal dunes in Yucatán, Mexico. Interviews were held with focus groups to analyze the forms of use, social perceptions of stakeholders, and the conservation of beaches and coastal dunes in Yucatán, Mexico. The results indicate that these ecosystems are important to different types of activities related to regulating, provisioning, and cultural services. However, degradation is identified as a consequence of contamination and land-use change. The main identified threats are natural phenomena, followed by the presence of garbage, human presence in natural environments, infrastructure construction, and privatization of beaches. The opinions (e.g., conservation, ecosystem services provision, drivers of change), emotions (e.g., joy, fear, sadness), and knowledge of the local community and tourists with respect to these ecosystems were evidenced. In general, there is an absence of conservation and sustainable management projects. However, community perceptions provide an opportunity to outline public conservation strategies in which the community, as a component of these socio-ecosystems, can be fully involved in their implementation.

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Perceptions and Social Values Regarding the Ecosystem Services of Beaches and Coastal Dunes in Yucatán, Mexico

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“…Beaches and the adjacent habitats to which they are connected by physical and biological processes supply a broad range of ecosystem services (Defeo et al 2009, Everard et al 2010, Culhane et al 2018, Rodr ıguez-Revelo et al 2018. Unfortunately, the existence and values of these services are frequently not appreciated by the lay public, managers, and policymakers (Liquete et al 2013, Martin et al 2016, Littles et al 2018.…”

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Estimates of losses and recovery of ecosystem services for oiled beaches lack clarity and ecological realism

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“…Most studies focused on cultural services, mainly directed towards tourist and recreational activities, which are the most commonly evaluated in beach studies worldwide (Rodríguez-Revelo et al, 2018). This is understandable, given the importance of tourist beaches to the national economy and the fact that such cultural services are more prone to a market-based valuation in contrast with other non-marketable cultural services (e.g., sense of well-being, traditional and historical value, a place for religious practices), which tend to be neglected in ecosystem services assessments in general (Milcu et al, 2013), including for sandy beaches (Torres and Hanley, 2016).…”

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Beach market: what have we been computing in Brazil?

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In recent years, the identification and economic valuation of ecosystem services have been identified as an important tool to recognize and translate nature's contribution to people's well-being. It is understood that assessing the economic value of ecosystem services contributes to better decision-making process regarding ecosystems, since it helps evaluation of trade-offs in alternative scenarios. Sandy beaches are among the most valuable coastal ecosystems, especially in regards to cultural services; however, they are still commonly subjected to several impacts that compromise the ecosystem integrity and capacity to provide multiple services, especially in the Global South. For this reason, management policies are crucial to reduce negative impacts. Assessing ecosystem services should be seen as a strategic approach to provide empirical support to these policies. We reviewed studies assessing and valuing sandy beach services in Brazil to identify strengths and gaps that could guide future studies. Our analysis showed that, despite Brazil being one of the leading countries in the published literature on sandy beach science, the number of studies assessing and valuing ecosystem services are small. Most of those studies are published in the native language, Portuguese, limiting the possibility of discussion and experience exchange at the international level. The services related to the use of beaches for tourism and leisure are the main category evaluated, and studies seem to focus on tourist beaches, especially those providing monetary evaluation, which follows the global trend. An increase in the number of published studies in recent years suggests a growing interest in the research subject. Based on the literature review, we discuss the results and make recommendations to guide and foster studies assessing beach services in the context of the Ocean Science Decade.

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Environmental Services of Beaches and Coastal Sand Dunes as a Tool for Their Conservation

Cited by 9 publications

References 73 publications

Perceptions and Social Values Regarding the Ecosystem Services of Beaches and Coastal Dunes in Yucatán, Mexico

Perceptions and Social Values Regarding the Ecosystem Services of Beaches and Coastal Dunes in Yucatán, Mexico

Estimates of losses and recovery of ecosystem services for oiled beaches lack clarity and ecological realism

Beach market: what have we been computing in Brazil?

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