CoastWEB: Valuing the contribution which COASTal habitats make to human health and WEllBeing, with a focus on the alleviation of natural hazards

尽管人们越来越多地认识到自然环境与人类健康和福祉之间的联系，但人们对这些联系仍然知之甚少。确实需要制定方法论的办法，充分阐明有利于健康和福祉的自然环境。为满足这一需要，海岸网项目旨在综合评价沿海生境对人类健康和福祉的贡献，重点放在减轻沿海自然灾害和极端事件上。这项研究的跨学科范围是雄心勃勃的，包括艺术、社会和环境心理学、环境经济学、治理、政策、一系列自然科学和非学术利益相关者。它还涵盖了从威尔士当地案例研究站点到英国全国范围内的一系列规模。1.拟议的研究首先对威尔士盐沼生态系统的一套“现实世界”未来干预措施进行定义，特别侧重于沿海防御，并在更广泛的国家政策背景下确定。至关重要的是，这项研究的成果对最终用户是有用的，而不仅仅是学术上的，因为这些备选方案的定义将与广泛的利益攸关方密切合作。2.随后将利用自然科学和建模技术探讨这些干预措施对盐沼沿岸防御能力的影响，从而增进我们对影响这一能力的关键生态系统过程和属性的了解。对其他生态系统服务的影响也将使用现有文献进行记录。这一步骤的一个关键成果将是在不同的干预措施下，制作威尔士范围内盐沼海岸防御服务变化的地图。3.沿海防御和更广泛的生态系统服务提供方面的这些变化的影响，将与地方社区和国家范围内人类健康和福祉的变化联系在一起。将通过应用基于定性对话的技术来探讨地方福祉的影响，而将通过定量(货币和非货币)调查技术来探讨全国范围的影响。4.通过绘图和讲习班，使用互动艺术方法(地方)和已建立的建模平台TIM(国家)，健康和福祉结果将直接反馈给利益攸关方基础和盐沼管理，因为它们将在步骤1建议的未来干预措施下提供对盐沼更广泛的健康和福祉方面的独特见解。提议的混合方法将使我们更好地了解以不同方式检查健康和福祉，使我们有能力处理对价值的不同理解和解释。然而，目的不是使用不同的学科相互转换，或将结果合并为一个衡量标准，而是接受方法和产出的差异，并探索它们如何相互补充。使用这些相辅相成的方法和规模有利于为管理人员提供用于决策的各种信息。

Despite increasing recognition of connections between natural environment and human health and wellbeing, these links are still poorly understood. There is a real need to develop methodological approaches to fully elucidate natural environments for health and wellbeing. To address this need the CoastWEB project aims to holistically value the contribution which coastal habitats make to human health and wellbeing, with a focus on the alleviation of coastal natural hazards and extreme events. The research is ambitious in its interdisciplinary scope, including art, social and environmental psychology, environmental economics, governance, policy, a suite of natural sciences, and non-academic stakeholders. It also covers a range of scales from local Welsh case study sites to UK national. We are proposing a circular 4 step process: 1. The proposed research begins with the definition of a set of "real world" future interventions for Welsh salt marsh ecosystems, with a particular focus on coastal defence, and set within a broader national policy context. It is critical that the outputs of this research are useful to end users, and not just academic, as such the definition of these options will be made in close collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders. 2. The impact of these interventions on saltmarsh coastal defence capacity will then be explored using natural science and modelling techniques, improving our understanding of the key ecosystem processes and attributes which influence this capacity. The impact on other ecosystem services will also be documented using existing literature. A key output of this step will be the production of Wales-wide maps of changes in salt marsh coastal defence services, under differing interventions. 3. The impact of these changes in coastal defence, and broader ecosystem service delivery, will be linked to changes in human health and wellbeing at both a local community and national scale. The local wellbeing impacts will be explored through the application of qualitative dialogue based techniques, whereas the national scale impacts will be explored through quantitative (monetary and non-monetary) survey techniques. 4. Through mapping and workshops, using both an interactive artistic approach (local) and the established modelling platform, TIM (national), the health and wellbeing results will then feed directly back into the stakeholder base and the management of the salt marsh, as they will provide a unique insight into the broader health and wellbeing aspects of salt marshes, under the future interventions proposed in step 1. The mixed methods approach proposed will provide a greater understanding examining health and wellbeing in different ways, enabling our ability to handle different understandings and interpretations of value. However, the aim is not to use different disciplines to translate for each other, or to combine results into one metric, but rather to embrace the differences in the approaches and outputs and to explore how they can complement each other. Using these complementary approaches and scales is beneficial in providing managers with a diverse array of information for making decisions.