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

尽管人们日益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。有真实的需要制定方法论的办法，以充分阐明健康和福祉的自然环境。为了满足这一需求，该项目旨在全面评估沿海生境对人类健康和福祉的贡献，重点是减轻沿海自然灾害和极端事件。该研究在其跨学科范围内雄心勃勃，包括艺术，社会和环境心理学，环境经济学，治理，政策，一套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网站到英国国家的一系列规模。我们提出了一个循环的4步过程：1。拟议的研究开始于一套“真实的世界”的威尔士盐沼生态系统的未来干预措施的定义，特别侧重于海岸防御，并在更广泛的国家政策背景下设置。至关重要的是，这项研究的成果对最终用户有用，而不仅仅是学术上的，因此这些选项的定义将与广泛的利益相关者密切合作。2.这些干预措施对盐沼海岸防御能力的影响将利用自然科学和建模技术进行探讨，提高我们对影响这种能力的关键生态系统过程和属性的理解。对其他生态系统服务的影响也将利用现有文献加以记录。这一步骤的一个关键产出将是绘制威尔士全境的盐沼海岸防卫服务变化图，这些变化是在不同的干预措施下进行的。3.这些变化对海岸防御和更广泛的生态系统服务提供的影响将与当地社区和国家范围内人类健康和福祉的变化相关联。将通过应用基于定性对话的技术探讨对当地福祉的影响，而将通过定量（货币和非货币）调查技术探讨对全国范围的影响。4.通过绘图和研讨会，使用互动艺术方法（当地）和既定的建模平台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的管理，因为它们将在步骤1中提出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。所提出的混合方法方法将以不同的方式提供对健康和福祉的更好理解，使我们能够处理对价值的不同理解和解释。然而，其目的不是要用不同的学科相互转化，或将结果联合收割机合并为一个衡量标准，而是要包容方法和产出的差异，并探讨它们如何能够相互补充。使用这些互补的方法和规模是有益的，为管理者提供了一个多样化的信息，以作出决策。

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.