Socio-Economics
Recent Submissions
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Communicating and Understanding Ecosystem Services Assessment With Coastal Stakeholders: Obstacles and Opportunities
(Frontiers in Communication, 2021-05-12)This paper reports on insights and lessons learned from stakeholder engagement, particularly focus groups, conducted during a multi-year, NOAA-sponsored transdisciplinary project. A major project goal was to demonstrate ... -
Pricing Options on Water in Texas
(Texas Water Journal, 2021-08-10)Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern in Texas and the issues that surround it are expected to grow in the coming years. As climate change impacts the variability of precipitation patterns, some of the most useful tools ... -
Focused Flows to Maintain Natural Nursery Habitats
(Texas Water Journal, 2021-09-27)Regulatory standards for environmental flows to estuaries are not common, but they are required in Texas. This has led to adoption of complex freshwater inflow regimes that reflect seasonal and yearly fluctuations that ... -
Future Flood Risk Exacerbated by the Dynamic Impacts of Sea Level Rise Along the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(Earth's Future, 2022-03-30)A growing concern of coastal communities is increased flood risk and non-monetary consequences due to climate-induced impacts such as sea level rise (SLR). Previous efforts have discussed the importance of future flood ... -
Role and Value of Nitrogen Regulation Provided by Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the Mission-Aransas Estuary, Texas, USA
(PLoS ONE, 2013-06-06)Suspension-feeding activities of oysters impart a potentially significant benefit to estuarine ecosystems via reduction of water column nutrients, plankton and seston biomass, and primary productivity which can have a ... -
Economic Impact of Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Goods and Services and Integration Into Restoration Decision-Making
(Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium of Alabama, 2013)Sustainability of natural resources requires balancing exploitation and conservation, enabled by management based on the best available scientific and economic information. Valuation of ecosystem goods and services is an ... -
Gulf of Mexico offshore ecosystem services: Relative valuation by stakeholders
(Science Direct, 2015-07-26)While efforts to integrate ecosystem services into the management of coastal and terrestrial systems continue to advance, similar efforts for deepwater environments are still in the early stages of deliberation. To begin ... -
Evolving academic culture to meet societal needs
(Springer Nature, 2017-11-21)Given today’s complex societal challenges, academia should work better with government, industry and others in offering innovative solutions that benefit our society, economy and environment. Researchers across disciplines ... -
Transnational research for coastal wetlands conservation in a Cuba–US setting
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07-15)Sharing information between different countries is key for developing sustainable solutions to environmental change. Coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico are suffering significant environmental and human-related threats. ... -
Valuing Nature Waste Removal in the Offshore Environment Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018-12-10)The offshore and deep-sea marine environment provides many ecosystem services (i.e., benefits to humans), for example: climate regulation, exploitable resources, processes that enable life on Earth, and waste removal. ... -
Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region: Preparing for Future Disasters
(Frontiers in Public Health, 2020-10-15)The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) region is prone to disasters, including recurrent oil spills, hurricanes, floods, industrial accidents, harmful algal blooms, and the current COVID-19 pandemic. The GoM and other regions of the ...