Lucy Emerton
Valuing Ecosystems as an Economic Part of Climate-Compatible Development Infrastructure in Coastal Zones of Kenya & Sri Lanka
Emerton, Lucy; Huxham, Mark; Bournazel, Jil; Kumara, M. Priyantha
Abstract
Even though ‘green’ options for addressing the impacts of climate
change have gained in currency over recent years, they are yet to be fully mainstreamed into development policy and practice. One important reason is the lack of economic evidence as to why investing in ecosystems offers a costeffective,
equitable and sustainable means of securing climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and other development co-benefits. This chapter presents a conceptual framework for integrating ecosystem values into climate-compatible development planning. Case studies from coastal areas of Kenya and Sri Lanka illustrate
how such an approach can be applied in practice to make the economic and business case for ecosystem-based measures. It is argued that, rather than posing ‘grey’ and ‘green’ options as being necessarily in opposition to each other or as mutually
incompatible, from an economic perspective both should be seen as being part and parcel of the same basic infrastructure that is required to deliver essential development services in the face of climate change.
Citation
Emerton, L., Huxham, M., Bournazel, J., & Kumara, M. P. (2016). Valuing Ecosystems as an Economic Part of Climate-Compatible Development Infrastructure in Coastal Zones of Kenya & Sri Lanka. In Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice (23-43). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43633-3_2
Online Publication Date | Aug 20, 2016 |
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Publication Date | Aug 20, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Sep 12, 2016 |
Electronic ISSN | 2213-6959 |
Pages | 23-43 |
Series Title | Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research |
Book Title | Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice |
Chapter Number | 2 |
ISBN | 9783319436319; 9783319436333 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43633-3_2 |
Keywords | Climate-compatible development, coastal ecosystems, economic valuation, Mangroves, |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/378291 |
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