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Valuing Ecosystem Services ofa Restored River of Grass

26th Annual EvCo Conference

Our Environment & Our EconomySession

January 7, 2011

John Arthur Marshall

Presenting an ESV demonstration analysisby the

2010 Arthur R. Marshall Summer Interns(The Colorful Slides are theirs)


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Valuing EcosystemServices of a Restored

River of GrassGEER 2010: Ecosystem Services Valuation as a Methodto Guide Future Planning, Policy, and Science

WRAC Meeting: July 8, 2010

Arthur R. Marshall Foundation Summer Interns:Angelique Giraud, Ed Pritchard, Dylan Scott, Adrienne Smith, Jim Wally


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e onora e oc a g ves e2010 Summer Intern Team a thumbs

up on their ESV

How-to-do-it Demonstration Project!


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Introduction Valuing ecosystem services = ESV is an aid to

environmental decision-making

Six configurations are from ROG stakeholders

Analysis uses Costanza, et al, synthesis ofplanetary ecosystem services value withbenefits in terms of $$$ per acre per year

Benefit-to-cost (B:C) ratios are indicators ofoptimum value


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Table 1. Summary of 6 ROG configurationfeature acreages.

Features NorthernExpansion (ERNE)

Bret,Drew

EstuaryDriven

Restoration

(EDER)Ted,Pete,

Mark, etc

FloridaCrystals

(FC)Galen,

Sam

MarshallPlan

(MPE6)TomP,

Martha,

Performane (P)TomV,Paul,

Karl, etc

Restoration Plus

Employment (RPE)Joan,Bevin

STA 8,200 32,500 49,200 14,600 34,000 20,000Deep

Storage55,000 108,333 87,500 90,567 116,667 100,000

Flow Way 170,000 75,000 45,000 108,385Forested

Wetland

14,500

TotalAcres:

233,200 215,833 181,700 228,052 150,667 120,000


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Figure 1. ESV for floodplains ($ ac-1yr-1). Services providedby marsh/swamp configuration features share similarfunctions with floodplains as defined by Constanza et al.

Water supply is the greatest economic benefit value.

Values of Services forFloodplains/marsh ($ ac-1 yr-1)


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Table 2. Ecosystem services found in waterconservation features. Flow-ways provide significantecosystem services values. Values have beenadjusted to match potential functions.

EcosystemServices

STA Flow Way Deep WaterReservoir

Cultural

DisturbanceRegulation

(x0.5)

Food Production

Gas Regulation

Habitat

Raw Materials

Recreation

Pollution Control (x1.5)

Water Regulation

Water Supply (x0.5)


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Table 3.The annual economic value of featuresin $ ac-1yr-1.

Features Annual Value ac($ ac-1yr-1)

STA $8,643

Deep Water Reservoir $6,590

Flow-Way $10,499

Forested Wetland $11,470


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Figure 3. Net benefit of river of grass including benefitsto estuaries. The Everglades River of Grass NorthernExpansion (ERNE) configuration provides the estuaries

with the greatest ecosystem benefit. EDER=ERDC


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Figure 4.The benefit-to-cost ratio of configurations for the totalrestoration of affected estuaries. *Florida Crystals (FC) has thehighest B:C ratio due to the absence of a deep water reservoir,

resulting in a low capital and O&M cost. EDRC=EDER (EstuaryDriven Everglades Restoration)

Total Restoration ofEstuaries


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2010 Summer InternConclusions

Constanza et al. synthesis is an analytic tool

Sticker Benefits overcome Sticker Shocks

Florida Crystals is the best plan for totalbenefit and cost with B:C > 6:1 (=26:1?)

Everglades River of Grass Northern Expansion(ERNE) has greatest net benefit economically

Benefit is clear & the need is pressing

Th 2010 S I


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The 2010 Summer InternPoster Paper was presented at

GEER Conference to: The Honorable Rock Salt, Principle Deputy Secretary of theArmy, Civil Works

Greg May, Executive Director, Task Force

SFWMD Governing Board Chair Eric Buermann

I will use these numbers!

Jax/CERP(+) District Engineer Colonel Al Pantano

NRC Peer Review Study Director Stephanie Johnson

Ronnie Best, USGS; Co-Chair, GEER/ACES

And many other VIPs among 500+ attendees


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Whats Happened Since GEERConf?

Oct, 2010: Everglades Foundation sponsoredMather Report released: B:C ~ 4:1

Oct, 2010: SF Ecosystem Restoration Task Forceidentifies ESV as an emerging theme

Oct, 2010: Everglades Coalition presents aresolution to the Task Force to push ESV

Oct 2010: TF DRAFT Everglades ProgressReport to Congress credits Defenders of Wildlife

with ESV work


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Other ESV Considerations

This Presentation went to the 20th Annual SW FLWater Resources Conference, Ft. Myer, Nov 19, 2010

WWF, TNC has ESV studies on the street FL Ranchlands Environmental Services Project

White House Center for Environmental Quality isincorporating ESV in current Draft Programs &Guidelines on national water, land resources policy

Follow-up results from A Conference on EcosystemServices (ACES #2), Dec 6-9, 2010, Phoenix, AZ

Classic case most often cited: Catskills Watershed

restoration V. WTP for NYC water supply: B:C ~ 6:1


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Final Points

Numerous NGO studies and robust B:C ratios > 6:1 indicateviability of Ecosystem Services Valuation for better decision-support, understandable by Office of Management & Budget,Congress and the Public

When ecosystem services are not given a dollar value, the defaultvalue is zero (NRC 2005);

Does this place policy ofno net loss of wetlands at risk?

CERP(+) implementers should adopt the ESV approach and makethe Everglades restoration Total Economic Value calculation anexample to follow.

Take-Home Assignment: Pester CERPprincipals to do so!


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Final Points, Continued

NEW THOUGHTS:

Shared Adversityhas been a nice concept,lacking Actuality.

How about Shared Prosperity, long-termbased on CERP(+) ESV Analysis?

NRC 2005 ESV study recommendation for aTotal Economic Valuation (TEV) applies, i.e.,to move toward better environmentaldecision making

Shift the paradigm to CERP(+) ESV => TEV,


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Bottom Line: Environment is theEconomy

[email protected] Nov 21, 2010Lets get to workhas to include Lets get to

work on CERP(+) for BIG economic &ecologic benefits, including significant

creation of jobs, and the long-termsustainability of the Florida economy!!
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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PRIMARY REFERENCES

Costanza, et al, Report on value of the planets18 biomes; Google Nature 387, orhttp://www.uvm.edu/giee/publications/Nature_Paper.pdf

Valuing Ecosystem Services Towards BetterEnvironmental Decision-making, NRC 2005; See

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11139 For Additional information and more references:

SEE Handout on 2010 Summer Intern approach, etc.

Go to www.ArtMarshall.org

[email protected]

See:http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/letters/return-on-saving-everglades-90
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/publications/Nature_Paper.pdfhttp://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11139http://www.artmarshall.org/mailto:[email protected]://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/letters/return-on-saving-everglades-90-billion-883668.html?cxtype=ynews_rsshttp://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/letters/return-on-saving-everglades-90-billion-883668.html?cxtype=ynews_rssmailto:[email protected]://www.artmarshall.org/http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11139http://www.uvm.edu/giee/publications/Nature_Paper.pdf


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