Sea the Value: Marine Biodiversity Benefits for a Sustainable Society
Sea the Value: Marine Biodiversity Benefits for a Sustainable Society
Sea the Value is a UKRI Economics of Biodiversity funded project, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory, that seeks to support nature recovery by advancing natural capital practices and developing essential finance mechanisms.
Vision
To determine novel and policy relevant pluralistic values for marine biodiversity and apply these values to co-develop green investment options, leading to a transformative shift in our understanding and utilisation of the economics of biodiversity.
Objectives
- Quantify the interlinkages between marine biodiversity, natural capital, and ecosystem services, taking quantity (extent), quality (condition), and resilience into consideration.
- Determine the economic and social values associated with carbon sequestration and bioremediation of waste and apply these values to support natural capital accounting frameworks and engage real world communities in mapping social values and trade-offs.
Connect the ecological, economic, and social values of biodiversity to decision-making through co-design and implementation of green investment to maintain and enhance biodiversity.
Training Materials
The Coastal Partnerships Network partnered on the project to help create a series of webinars that can be used as an ongoing training resource for Coastal, Estuary and Marine Partnerships, as well as other organisations in the coastal space.
You are welcome to download and use the training materials for your own purposes: Sea The Value: Training materials
For more information about the project, please visit the webpage.
The project ran from October 2022 - October 2025.