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Over the past few decades, efforts were addressed to the understanding of the link between ecosystems and human well-being. Gradually, humans began to perceive that changes imposed to nature by their activities provoke effects, direct or indirect, on all components of well-being. From this perception, the concepts of Ecosystem Services (ES) and...

Recreational boating is a worldwide leisure activity playing an important role in the context of coastal economy but also causing significant damage on the environment, above all in the absence of adequate management measures. Among the damages, the anchoring on sensitive habitats, with the consequent loss of structural complexity, density,...

Coastal marine ecosystems are among the most productive ecosystems worldwide, providing essential resources both for the environment itself and for human life. This is the case of the Ligurian Sea, rich in marine biodiversity that characterizes a valuable natural capital that has, however, been damaged by the development of human activities...

The evaluation of ecosystem services provided by the environment is usually realized basing on principles linked with the economic theory and then on the assumptions that 1) individuals have preferences for different market and non-market goods, 2) these goods are substitutable the one to each other. Methods for measuring these values fall into...

The INTERREG GIREPAM (Integrated Management of Ecological Networks through Marine Protected Areas and Parks) project aims, within the T3 component, at setting up an environmental accounting framework for the evaluation of natural capital and ecosystem services (ES).Building upon the outcomes from the National Environmental Accounting of Marine...