A standard framework for assessing the costs and benefits of restoration: introducing The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration
A standard framework for assessing the costs and benefits of restoration: introducing The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration
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DOI：
10.1111/rec.13515
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发表时间：
2021-10-28
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3.2
通讯作者：
Besacier, Christophe
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作者：
Bodin, Blaise;Garavaglia, Valentina;Besacier, Christophe
尽管生态系统恢复背后的政策动力从未如此强劲，但恢复资金仍然不足。解锁融资的一个关键信息差距是缺乏有关恢复成本和收益的可靠且一致的数据。这部分是由于恢复项目的背景、干预措施和目标多种多样，以及缺乏明确的成本和效益数据收集标准和协议。为了填补这一空白，我们制定了一个标准框架来评估恢复项目和具体恢复干预措施的成本和效益。相关的数据收集模板在试点阶段进行了可用性测试，是生态系统恢复经济学 (TEER) 的第一个成果，TEER 是联合国生态系统恢复十年支持下的一项多合作伙伴倡议。这是有史以来第一次尝试提高从全球范围内收集的生态系统恢复经济学数据的稳健性和可比性。实施或资助恢复的各种组织广泛采用该框架和相关模板，将允许将标准化数据输入共同拥有的恢复成本和效益数据库，并作为进一步研究生态系统恢复经济学的基础，包括成本效益分析。更好的成本和效益信息将有助于为恢复项目提供准确的预算和融资渠道，并使它们更有可能实现既定目标和期望的定量结果（例如恢复面积）。
While the policy momentum behind ecosystem restoration has never been stronger, restoration finance remains insufficient. A crucial information gap to unlock finance is the lack of robust and consistent data on the costs and benefits of restoration. This is due in part to the wide variety of contexts, interventions, and objectives of restoration projects, and to the absence of well-defined standards and protocols for cost and benefit data collection. To fill this gap, we developed a standard framework to assess the costs and benefits of restoration projects and specific restoration interventions. The associated template for data collection, which was tested for usability during a piloting phase, is the first output of The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration (TEER), a multi-partner initiative under the aegis of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. It is the first attempt ever to improve the robustness and comparability of data on the economics of ecosystem restoration collected from the field at a global scale. Widespread adoption of this framework and associated template by a wide range of organizations implementing or financing restoration would allow for standardized data to be fed into a jointly owned database of restoration costs and benefits and serve as a basis for the further investigation of the economics of ecosystem restoration, including cost-benefits analysis. Better information on costs and benefits will help to inform accurate budgeting access to finance for restoration projects, and make them more likely to achieve their set goals and desired quantitative outcomes (e.g. area restored).