An approach for assessing U.S. Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration : a Gulf Research Program environmental monitoring report / National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, author.

Contributor:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Gulf Research Program

Committee on Long-Term Environmental Trends in the Gulf of Mexico

Medicine National Academies of Sciences, contribution by.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global warming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2022]

Summary:

Valued for its ecological richness and economic value, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is under substantial pressure from human activities. The Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and oil spill significantly damaged Gulf ecosystems and led to the largest ecological restoration investment in history. The unprecedented number and diversity of restoration activities provide valuable information for future restoration efforts, but assessment efforts are hampered by many factors, including the need to evaluate the interaction of multiple stressors and consider long-term environmental trends such as sea level rise, increasing hurricane intensity, and rising water temperatures.This report offers a comprehensive approach to assess restoration activities beyond the project scale in the face of a changing environment. A main component of this approach is using different types of scientific evidence to develop "multiple lines of evidence" to evaluate restoration efforts at regional scales and beyond, especially for projects that may be mutually reinforcing (synergistic) or in conflict (antagonistic). Because Gulf of Mexico ecosystems cross political boundaries, increased coordination and collaboration is needed, especially to develop standardized data collection, analysis, synthesis, and reporting. With these improvements, program-level adaptive management approaches can be used more effectively to assess restoration strategies against the backdrop of long-term environmental trends.

Contents:

Intro

FrontMatter

Reviewers

Preface

Contents

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Environmental Trends and Indicators

3 Assessing Cumulative Effects of Restoration: Current and Emerging Approaches

4 Applications of Synthesis and Cumulative Effects Assessment in the Gulf of Mexico

5 Moving Forward

References

Appendix A: Distribution and Status of Funds Derived from Deepwater Horizon-Related Settlements

Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies

Appendix C: People Who Provided Input to the Committee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine An Approach for Assessing U. S. Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration

ISBN:

9780309263429

0309263425

9780309263405

0309263409

OCLC:

1356009308