Towards improved socio-economic assessments of ocean acidification’s impacts

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Hilmi, Nathalie, Allemand, Denis, Dupont, Sam, Safa, Alain, Haraldsson, Gunnar, Nunes, Paulo, Moore, Chris, Hattam, Caroline, Reynaud, Stéphanie, Hall-Spencer, Jason, Fine, Maoz, Turley, Carol, Jeffree, Ross, Orr, James, Munday, Philip, Cooley, Sarah
• Other Authors: Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM), International Atomic Energy Agency - Environment Laboratories Monaco (IAEA-EL), Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences Gothenburg, University of Gothenburg (GU), OECD, Environment Directorate, The Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth University, Bar-Ilan University Israël, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Modelling the Earth Response to Multiple Anthropogenic Interactions and Dynamics (MERMAID), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reefs Studies Townsville, Australie (ARC), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2013
• Subjects: scipo; geo; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-012-2031-5; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03208182/file/hilmi.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03208182

International audience Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a component of global change that could have a wide range of impacts on marine organisms, the ecosystems they live in, and the goods and services they provide humankind. Assessment of these potential socio-economic impacts requires integrated efforts between biologists, chemists, oceanographers, economists and social scientists. But because ocean acidification is a new research area, significant knowledge gaps are preventing economists from estimating its welfare impacts. For instance, economic data on the impact of ocean acidification on significant markets such as fisheries, aquaculture and tourism are very limited (if not non-existent), and non-market valuation studies on this topic are not yet available. Our paper summarizes the current understanding of future OA impacts and sets out what further information is required for economists to assess socio-economic impacts of ocean acidification. Our aim is to provide clear directions for multidisciplinary collaborative research.