SARA VENTURINI

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,...

The main aims of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are the conservation of natural habitats and their biological resources, together with the promotion of an eco-compatible economic fruition. In Mediterranean MPAs, the main threats for hard bottom benthic communities come from fishing and mass tourism, in terms of boating and SCUBA diving. The...

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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...