1. Mike.Elliott@hull.ac.uk With all of the WP2 team
Ecological Functioning - Its Role in Harmonising Ecological and Economic Goods & Services
With all of the WP2 team

2. Ecological & economic goods & services
Functioning, legislative drivers, & in-situ & ex-situ pressures
Ecosystem Approach
Hey, YOU the ecology-manager -
how many invertebrates do you want in the estuary?
how many fishes do you want in the estuary?
how many birds do you want in the estuary?
how much saltmarsh do you want around the estuary?

3. Ecological & economic goods & services
Functioning, legislative drivers, & in-situ & ex-situ pressures
Ecosystem Approach
Hey, YOU the Lord Mayor -
how much protection do you want around the estuary?
how many fishermen do you want in the estuary?
how much land claim do you want from the estuary?
how much pollution do you want in the estuary?
how many ships do you want in the estuary?
how many people do you want around the estuary?

4. Ecological & economic goods & services
Functioning, legislative drivers, & in-situ & ex-situ pressures
Ecosystem Approach
Hey, YOU -
how much science do you want for the estuary?
how much ecological carrying capacity do you want in the estuary?
how much socio-economic carrying capacity do you want in the estuary?

5. 700 pages of sheer brilliance!
WP2 Integrated Report - Table of Contents
Chapter 1: In Introduction to Estuarine Ecosystem Functioning, Restoration and Health
Chapter 2: The Links between Hydromorphology, Ecology and Management
Chapter 3: Habitat Status
Chapter 4: Habitat Use
Chapter 5: Pressures on Habitats and Transitional Waters
Chapter 6: Tools for Management: Conservation Goals, Habitat Needs and Indices of Ecological Quality
Chapter 7: Habitat Loss
Chapter 8: Habitat Restoration
Chapter 9: Habitat Gain
Chapter 10: Management Plans for Transitional Waters
Chapter 11: Discussion and Recommendations
700 pages of sheer brilliance!

6. Ecological & economic goods & services Functioning Ecosystem Approach
What should there be (status)?
& why (habitat needs)?
Regain carrying capacity
What is lost (reduced carrying capacity)?
Produce Management Plan!
Measure functioning (need indices of change)
Permanent habitat loss
Temporary habitat loss
Can it be recovered?
Recreate habitats
Restore habitat
Yes No
Water quality barrier
Report to EU
HMWB (hydromorphology)
Compensate the system
Economic justification (xGEcS)
Remedial action - pollution control

7. Ecological & economic goods & services Legislative Drivers
Ecosystem Approach
Decide conservation goals
Decide quantitative standards
Decide SMART objectives
Report to EU/OSPAR
Surveillance monitoring
Remedial work
Agree licences/permits/consents
Create/agree methods
Pass
Check AQC/QA
Investigative monitoring
Produce Management Plan!
Perform compliance monitoring
Fail
Check compliance with standards

8. Ecological & economic goods & services Response to In-situ pressures
Ecosystem Approach
Materials taken out
What does society want?
Materials put in
Reported to EU/OSPAR
Loss of ecological carrying capacity
Maintenance of socio-economic carrying capacity
Breach legislative driver
Quantify EII 1 (hydromorphology)
Quantify EII 2 (pressures)
Spatial & temporal change
Remediation/mitigation/ compensation
Lead to (quantify) EII 3 (environmental quality)
Produce Management Plan!

9. Ecological & economic goods & services Response to Ex-situ pressures
Ecosystem Approach
Unmanaged exogenic pressures
Flooding/ storminess
Relative sea-level rise
Coastal squeeze
erosion
Options: Hold the line / retreat the line / advance the line / do nothing
Mitigation/ compensation/ acceptance
Soft/hard engineering
Wins for safety, economy, ecology
Produce Flood Risk, Shoreline Management, Habitat etc Management Plans
Best practice in habitat creation
Need for single management plan?!

10. Ecological & economic goods & services
Functioning, legislative drivers, & in-situ & ex-situ pressures
Ecosystem Approach
So what’s wrong and why do we need harmonised management! (not all bleak!):
Sectors cooperating (e.g.)
Disciplines cooperating (e.g.)
Agencies cooperating (e.g.)
Countries cooperating (e.g.)
Governance harmonised (e.g.?)