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Jobs & Dollars: Big Returns from Coastal Habitat Restoration |
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A landmark report released September 14, 2011, shows that coasts and estuaries are not only essential to the nation's economy, but that investments in coastal habitat restoration produce jobs in a cash-strapped, job-starved economy at a higher rate than many other sectors, including oil and gas, road infrastructure, and green building retrofit projects.
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Coastal Restoration Corps Workshop Reports 2011 |
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Restore America's Estuaries and NOAA convened workshops in February and October 2011 to discuss and develop ideas designed to create a Coastal Restoration Corps dedicated to restoring coastal and estuarine habitats. This Corps would be unique in its approach but use elements of successful service models to bring together existing groups and volunteers on behalf of coastal habitat restoration. The three documents below capture the outcomes from the daylong workshops. One is a short “two-pager” and the others provide more detailed workshop overviews, along with the facilitator’s reports. As we move forward with this initiative, we invite wide and diverse involvement, so please contact Suzanne Simon [
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Coastal Restoration Corps February 2011 Workshop Full Summary Report Coastal_Restoration_Corps_workshop_summary.pdf |
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Measuring and Monitoring the Economic Effects of Habitat Restoration: A Summary of a NOAA Blue Ribbon Panel |
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Restoring degraded marine and coastal habitat is critical if America's coasts and oceans are to reach their economic and ecological potential. Because the focus of NOAA's restoration efforts has been on restoring the ecosystem functions of degraded and damaged habitats, the agency has used biological and ecological metrics to measure the succcess of restoration efforts. Now, there is new interest at NOAA and other restoration agencies to demonstrate how restoration projects affect local economies and the overall economic well-being of the country. The following is a report prepared in May 2010 that sets out ways and means of determining those economic impacts.Read more...NOAA_RAE_BRP_Estuary_Economics.pdf |
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Hope for Coastal Habitats: People, Partnerships & Projects Making a Difference |
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Hope for Coastal Habitats |
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This report from Restore America's Estuaries sheds a new light on the need for Americans to get personally involved in restoration efforts along their coasts and waterways.
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Linking Coastal Habitat Restoration & People: Measuring the Effects of Restoration and Mitigation on Coastal Uses |
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A National Strategy provides a framework for restoring function to coastal and estuarine habitat. It seeks to ensure that restoration priorities are established, diverse programs are coordinated to maximize benefits, and public expectations are both established and met. It also supports the goal of restoring one million acres of estuarine habitat by 2010 as set forth in the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000, and it can be applied to improve the effectiveness of restoration efforts conducted under any program.
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Linking Coastal Habitat Restoration and People: Using Onsite and Internet Surveys to Assess the Social Impacts of Coastal Restoration |
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The Economic Value of Coasts & Estuaries |
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From the Executive Summary of The Economic and Market Value of Coasts and Estuaries: What's At Stake? by Linwood Pendleton
Our nation was built from the coast. Americans, like people around the world, are drawn to the coast because of its beauty, productivity, and because our coasts are gateways to the world. The coast nurtures our frontier spirit, our need for outdoor recreation, and the constant American appetite for sweeping ocean views and quiet bayfront vistas. Coasts, coastal oceans, and estuaries are essential to ocean fisheries and aquaculture. Coasts and their waters also generate oxygen, sequester carbon dioxide, and provide habitat to plants and animals both marine and terrestrial.
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In February, 2006 Restore America's Estuaries (RAE) and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) commissioned a pilot study with volunteers from three Restore America's Estuaries member organizations, Tampa Bay Watch (FL), Save San Francisco Bay Association (CA), and Galveston Bay Foundation (TX). The goal of the study was to begin to explore if or how volunteering in an environmental context relates to conservation behaviors when not engaged in volunteering.
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Principles of Estuarine Habitat Restoration |
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The report is a collaboration and celebration - collaboration of scientists and field practitioners working together to define the best practices, and celebration of the contributors of so many people striving to restore health to our nation's estuaries. Many scientists and practitioners have invested enormous time, talent and resources to advance the state-of-the-art of estuarine habitat restoration.
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The Federal Funding Guide is a repository of information about federal programs that provide restoration project funding throughout the country and for a wide array of habitat, activity and recipient types. The funding guide provides a quick, comprehensive and accessible review of the often hidden federal funds that may be used to implement on-the-ground habitat restoration projects. Its design and layout provide users with easy access to critical information about funding and eligibility. In the Federal Funding Documents opportunities are listed in alphabetical order by Department.
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