Measuring and Monitoring the Economic Effects of Habitat Restoration: A Summary of a NOAA Blue Ribbon Panel

May 2010

Restoring degraded marine and coastal habitat is critical if America's coasts and oceans are to reach their economic and ecological potential. Because there has never been a systematic effort to collect data to measure and monitor the effects of coastal habitat restoration on economic value, in December 2009, Restore America's Estuaries, in concert with NOAA, convened a Blue Ribbon Panel of economists to consider approaches for collecting and analyzing data on the economic outcomes of selected restoration projects. This document details the results of that discussion.

 

 

Author(s): Linwood Pendleton