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European thoughts on economics of coastal management

Posted by: Maven on February 27, 2010 at 8:18 am

From Desalination & Water Reuse:

“D&WR readers involved in environmental studies for seawater desalination plants may be interested in a series of briefings just published via the European Union’s Science for Environmental Policy website under the heading Coastal Management.

Prof Raimonds Ernsteins 
of the University of Latvia, Riga, says in a preface, “We need to better understand the ongoing processes in this complex and sensitive system of nature-human interactions and to reduce the negative impacts of coastal change. To achieve this we must draw on research expertise, not only from natural sciences and engineering, but also increasingly and pressingly from social sciences and economics, with clear and effective stakeholder engagement to develop participatory and integrated policies.”

Two studies in particular seem worth looking up, as both are concerned with economic values for environmental factors: … “

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February 27, 2010 · Filed Under Desalination

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