Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/N013573/1
CoastWEB: Valuing the contribution which COASTal habitats make to human health and WEllBeing, with a focus on the alleviation of natural hazards
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor N Beaumont, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Co-Investigator:
- Prof. I Moeller, Trinity College Dublin, Sch of Natural Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr KJ Wyles, University of Plymouth, Sch of Psychology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor H Karunarathna, Swansea University, College of Engineering
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr MW Skov, Bangor University, Sch of Ocean Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor BH Day, University of Exeter, Economics
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor NF Pidgeon, Cardiff University, Sch of Psychology
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr T Borger, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Business and Economics
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr JN Griffin, Swansea University, College of Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Mr S Read, Middlesex University, Faculty of Arts & Creative Industries
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr RC Ballinger, Cardiff University, Sch of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor K Henwood, Cardiff University, Sch of Social Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Coastal & Waterway Engineering
- Coastal Defences
- Coastal Engineering
- Coastal Morphology
- Coastal Zone Management
- Estuaries
- Estuary Management
- Flood Defences
- Flood Risk Assessment
- Flooding
- Water & Coastal Structures
- Wave Impact Forces
- Wave Over-Topping
- Waves
- Risk management
- Storm risk
- Regional & Extreme Weather
- Warning systems
- Land use
- Coastal erosion
- Communication of uncertainty
- Flood modelling
- Floods
- Conservation Ecology
- Anthropogenic pressures
- Biodiversity conservation
- Community structure
- Ecosystem function
- Ecosystem services
- Habitat change
- Habitat fragmentation
- Land use change
- Species diversity
- Environmental economics
- Ecological economics
- Environmental valuations
- Pricing of environmental resources
- Sustainable development
- Social Psychology
- Attitudes
- Behavioural change
- Community Psychology
- Ecological Psychology
- Economic Psychology
- Psychology of risk
- Abstract:
- 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.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/N013573/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed (Research Programmes)
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Valuing Nature
This grant award has a total value of £1,077,208
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DI - Staff | DA - Estate Costs | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £46,817 | £356,406 | £85,063 | £382,345 | £145,265 | £61,222 | £90 |
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