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Governance of ecosystem services: how to transform the ES concept in an explicit management toolA very first draft of a blueprint protocol for ES management by Jose Lascurain (Barcelona) and to be revised by OPERAs team17 November 2016

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To engage stakeholdersBridging gaps between administrations and stakeholdersTo find better decision-making circuits.To optimize efficiency.To improve innovationTo create more efficient strategies.The ecosystem services concept as an explicit management toolUseful for decision making and management in areas like urban planning, natural park management, .

To manage ES is to manage complex environments that need visions going beyond command and control methods.

This is why there is a need of adaptive management systems

To get a good management plan there is a need of a good socio-cultural valuation, and to identify all significate stakeholders and, so to weight their relevance to include them on the decision making process.

This virtuous cycle advances with knowledge, and so, there is a need of good monitoring system. The efficiency and effectiveness of the process will set the pace of the advancement of the process

Management plans that are only conceived from the command and control concept will not work. The same when the monitoring system is ill conceived.

Lots of aspects genuinely born from the ES concept that are useful when managing complex environments

Different ways to identify stakeholders

Why not a mix from the demand side? First get the information and second classify

Social-media listening can be a very useful method

Different ways to understand their relationships

Not only to find all them, but also for early warning of troubles when competing moral orders

So map, describe and then draw the flows between them

Different ways to weight their relevance

High levels of saliency (or social media visibility) is not always the best indicator.

And the obvious need to assess the monitoring system. There are objective ways to say if it is evidence-based or not.

And not so difficult to determine when a second opinion or a validation system is needed.

And all this with transparency, and open standards!

The Barcelona metropolitan dunes case studyDifferent demand of ES between beaches

The economic price of housing properties is very high

Dunes disappeared long ago

Wind no more constructing dunes but keeping its erosive potential

This is because the seasonality of the constructor wind

So we have developed a method of dune construction mimicking natural processes

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area is responsible of providing clean sand and good services to more than 7.000.000 yearly visitors

But the most relevant factor and stakeholder is another

With an environmental assessment based on an ill conceived model

All the metropolitan beaches affected.

1/3 of them by a novel process triggered by beach slope inversion.

A very risky factor as the effect of sea level rise will be non linear.

So we conceived a model relying on the emerged sand system

With a very precise model

http://maps.croma.org.es/geoserver/www/cr004_visor-ampliat.html With a Web Map service

Where people can mix layers and understand what happens

The stakeholders

The monitoring research centre recognizes the failure of the process, involving around 1.000.000 cost each year moving 100.000m3 of sand

And with other opportunities

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