Identifying Major Stressors: The Essential Precursor to Restoring Cultural Ecosystem Services in a Degraded Estuary

Marine and Coastal Cultural Ecosystem Services: knowledge gaps and research priorities

“…One publication denoted the importance of natural/environmental flow regimes in an estuary for the provisioning of recreation and leisure and aesthetic amenities (Davis and Kidd 2012). On the other hand, one publication reported the negative effect of ctenophore and jellyfish blooms on the supply of recreation and leisure and aesthetic services (Baulcomb et al 2015).…”

A scenario-based approach to evaluating potential environmental impacts following a tidal barrage installation

“…Dredging commenced in the 1880s to provide adequate depths . The upper reaches of the estuary have undergone considerable in-filling, river realignment, and canalisation (Davis and Kidd, 2012) resulting in a~30% loss of tidal prism since settlement. This combined with the cessation of dredging has resulted in silt accretion as the estuary establishes a new equilibrium between the tidal flows and cross-sectional areas.…”

Indicators of Cultural Ecosystem Services for urban planning: A review

“…We evaluated the relevance of the urban context using a qualitative scale of three grades A-C: (A) null or low relevance -in this case the study did not contain urban areas or they were insignificant such as the case of Grand County Colorado which has a population of only 11,000 inhabitants (Brown et al, 2012); (B) medium relevance: urban areas were more prevalent but not predominant, like in the case of Flanders in Belgium which is an area with significant levels of urbanisation but also has vast rural areas ; (C) high relevance: urban areas were predominant within the study area, like in the case of specific case study of cities like Tamar river estuary (Davis and Kidd, 2012) or the four cities in Florida (Escobedo et al, 2014). Table 2 Combination of values of criteria of "communicability" and "relevance to urban context".…”