OCEAN CITIZEN: Marine forest coastal restoration: an underwater gardening socio-ecological plan

海洋公民：海洋森林海岸恢复：水下园艺社会生态计划

• 批准号: 10043621
• 金额: $ 26.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10043621
• 关键词: OCEAN; CITIZEN; Marine; forest; coastal

Following the non-achievement of the AICHI targets and most of the Good Environmental Status objectives for 2020, active restoration has been emerged (also envisaged by the EU) as one of the preferred tools that may boost sequels of marine protected areas and other conservation measures. Restoration acts promote biodiversity, enhance carbon sequestration and accelerate coastal and offshore resilience. Yet, we still lack a program that combines conservation and restoration under a unified setting, as the involvement of local citizen, embracing socio-economic parameters into opportunities. Thus, an advanced restoration program must conjoin ecological perspectives together with societal commitment and clear economic benefits for local communities. Above all, it must be designed with continuity beyond the lifespan of a project. Responding to the above, OCEAN CITIZEN proposal represent a novel restoration approach in which (1) restoration is depicted as a toolbox holding ubiquitous properties and as such it is experienced in 3 sites, representing different marine ecosystems (in one of the sites all tools are used in concert) and different environments: subtropical, tropical and cold temperate; (2) a profession of “gardeners of the sea” is created and endorsed, including detailed curriculum; (3) the project targets the restoration of the most neglected marine biome, encompassing the various types of Marine Forest (MF) organisms (seagrasses, seaweeds, sponges, corals, gorgonians, etc.);(4) new ecoengineering aspects are applied, including Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture and Smart Enhanced Reefs (SER); the SERs act as substrates for massive recruitment and transplantation of MF organisms (5) the is performed on land, and in situ, from shallow, mesophotic to continental shelf areas (to 90-100 meters depth); (6) a novel approach for C sequestering and sink (7) the full involvement of citizens and local stakeholders with a complete business plan.no project summary.

在未实现爱知目标和2020年大部分良好环境状况目标之后，积极恢复已成为(欧盟也设想的)首选工具之一，可促进海洋保护区的续建和其他养护措施。恢复法促进生物多样性，加强碳封存，并加快沿海和近海的复原力。然而，我们仍然缺乏一个在统一环境下将保护和恢复结合起来的计划，因为当地公民的参与，将社会经济参数纳入机会。因此，一个先进的恢复计划必须将生态观点与社会承诺和当地社区的明确经济效益结合起来。最重要的是，它的设计必须具有超越项目生命周期的连续性。作为对上述问题的回应，海洋公民提案代表了一种新的恢复方法，其中(1)恢复被描述为一个拥有无处不在的属性的工具箱，因此在3个地点体验了恢复，代表不同的海洋生态系统(在一个地点所有工具都同时使用)和不同的环境：亚热带、热带和寒温带；(2)创建并认可了“海洋园丁”专业，包括详细的课程；(3)该项目的目标是恢复最被忽视的海洋生物群，包括各种类型的海洋森林生物(海草、海藻、海绵、珊瑚、柳珊瑚等)；(4)应用了新的生态工程方面，包括综合多营养水产养殖和智能增强型珊瑚礁(SER)；SERS作为大规模招募和移植MF生物的基质(5)在陆地上进行，从浅海、中层到大陆架地区(深达90-100米)就地进行；(6)碳固存和碳汇的新方法；(7)公民和当地利益攸关方的全面参与，具有完整的商业计划。