Can biodiversity maintenance and restoration support a just transition? An assessment of the link between the socioeconomic distribution of marine and

我拟议的研究旨在补充现有关于气候-自然-社会关系中“社会”因素的经济学研究，并调查自然资本提供的海洋和沿海生物多样性和生态系统服务的当前和未来供需的分配和公平问题，以及这些问题如何影响生物多样性干预措施的有效性。也就是说，谁从生态系统服务(即自然的供应)中受益和损失，扭转生物多样性丧失(即对自然的需求)所需的承诺和未来的公共和私人投资水平是多少，以及受益者的分布可能如何影响生物多样性干预措施的有效性，反之亦然，重点放在公平问题上。分析将侧重于英国沿海和海洋生境，最低限度将包括被确定为对人类福祉最有价值的生态系统服务，如娱乐，这项研究将解决现有证据基础中的四个关键差距：1)对海洋和沿海生态系统服务受益者分布的有限评估；2)现有分布分析缺乏复杂性；3)(海洋)生物多样性仍然处于经济系统的边缘；4)不充分考虑生物多样性在经济研究中的社会价值。最后，我预计这项研究将评估造成海洋和沿海生态系统效益的经济因素的类型，并改进未来对海洋生态系统服务和生物多样性效益重新分配的考虑，从而导致进一步的纳入和公正的自然过渡。

My proposed research aims to supplement existing sparse economics researchon the "social" element of the climate-nature-social nexus and investigate thedistributional and equity issues of current and future supply and demand formarine and coastal biodiversity and ecosystem servicesprovided by natural capital and how they affect the effectiveness of biodiversityinterventions. That is, who benefits and loses from ecosystem services (i.e.nature's supply), what is the level of committed and future public and privateinvestment in nature required to reverse biodiversity loss(i.e. demand for nature), and how the distribution of beneficiaries might affectthe effectiveness of biodiversity interventions and vice versa, with a strongemphasis put on equity issues.The analysis will focus on the coastal and marine UK habitats and, as aminimum, will include ecosystem services identified as most valuable to humanwellbeing, such as recreation, food provisioning and carbon sequestration.Thestudy will address four key gaps in the existing evidence base: 1) limitedassessment of distribution of beneficiaries of marine and coastal ecosystemservices 2) lack of complexity of existing distributional analyses 3) (marine)biodiversity remaining peripheral to economic systemsand 4) insufficient account of biodiversity's societal value in economicsresearch.Tentatively, I expect that the research will assess the types of economic agentsincurring marine and coastal ecosystem benefits in their full complexity andimprove future considerations of redistribution of marine ecosystem servicesand biodiversity benefits leading to a further inclusion and just nature transition.