Natural capital and ecosystem services for sustainable livelihoods in Costa Vicentina, Portugal

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Event Abstract Back to Event Natural capital and ecosystem services for sustainable livelihoods in Costa Vicentina, Portugal Rui Santos1*, Paula Antunes1*, Pedro Clemente1 and Marta Calvache1 1 CENSE – Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal The OpenNESS project, funded by EC FP7, aims to translate the concepts of Natural Capital (NC) and Ecosystem Services (ES) into operational frameworks that provide tested, practical and tailored solutions for integrating ES into land, water and urban management and decision-making, while promoting local stakeholders well-being. Central to the project is a multi-scale case study approach, designed to ground concepts and theories on real world observations and analysis. This paper presents one of the project case studies, located in the Portuguese southwest coast – Costa Vicentina. This case study is focused on the use of NC and ES concepts to design instruments for sustainable management of living resources (algae, shellfish and fish) and to promote a sustainable nature-based tourism. The research aims to (1) identify the linkages between marine natural capital stocks (e.g. bottom algae, shellfish populations,...) with ES provision; (2) explore the perceptions and importance of ES to local stakeholders’ wellbeing and their economic value; and (3) evaluate the use of ES in land-use planning and conservation, and the potential of different policy instruments and governance arrangements to ensure the delivery of ES and to promote local stakeholders well-being. The combination of methods such as ES mapping, monetary and non-monetary valuation of ES, and system dynamics modelling, will ultimately be used to inform and support decision makers and policy instruments design. The research is rooted on a participatory process involving the main stakeholder groups, thus fostering dialogue and social learning. Keywords: natural capital, ecosystem services, governance, system dynamics modelling, Conservation of Natural Resources Conference: IMMR | International Meeting on Marine Research 2014, Peniche, Portugal, 10 Jul - 11 Jul, 2014. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT Citation: Santos R, Antunes P, Clemente P and Calvache M (2014). Natural capital and ecosystem services for sustainable livelihoods in Costa Vicentina, Portugal. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: IMMR | International Meeting on Marine Research 2014. doi: 10.3389/conf.fmars.2014.02.00097 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 21 May 2014; Published Online: 18 Jul 2014. * Correspondence: Dr. Rui Santos, CENSE – Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, rfs@fct.unl.pt Dr. Paula Antunes, CENSE – Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, mpa@fct.unl.pt Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Rui Santos Paula Antunes Pedro Clemente Marta Calvache Google Rui Santos Paula Antunes Pedro Clemente Marta Calvache Google Scholar Rui Santos Paula Antunes Pedro Clemente Marta Calvache PubMed Rui Santos Paula Antunes Pedro Clemente Marta Calvache Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.