"Social Change Shapes the Environment, Environmental Change Shapes Society" (Jatna Supriatna, 2021) Human use of natural resources today must consider sustainability and a great responsibility for future generations. Sustainability science, an interdisciplinary field, has become a foundation for addressing challenges arising from social change that impacts ecological, economic, and socio-cultural issues. According to Susan W. Kieffer and colleagues (2003), sustainability science is the application of knowledge by holistically integrating cultivation systems (agriculture, forestry, livestock), earth systems (geology, ecology, oceanography, etc.), and other systems coordinated with human feedback systems influenced by social and economic sciences. Askara Nusantara is a space to explore these solutions. Indonesia's rich biodiversity offers a living laboratory for sustainable practices. 🎼 Barasuara #ProtectTheEarth #SustainLives #Sustainability
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🌊 𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆: 𝑴𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏! 🌊 I'm thrilled to share the details of my first abstract publication on "𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗿𝗶 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮." The study was driven by the need to identify suitable sites for Asian seabass (𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘳) culture in southern Sri Lanka. Currently, large-scale open ocean cage culture of Asian seabass in Sri Lanka is monopolized by Oceanpick Pvt Ltd, operating solely in the Trincomalee Cod Bay area. During the commencement of their seabass farm, site selection posed a significant challenge. This research was initiated to address the gap in knowledge regarding site suitability models in Sri Lanka and to find sustainable solutions for aquaculture. Leveraging Copernicus data products from the past 20 years, I developed a model using R Studio version 4.3.1. The model successfully identified habitable sites for Asian seabass in the study area, revealing that most of the southern coast is suitable for seabass culture. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, Dr. S.S. Herath, and my co-supervisors, Dr. Kanchana Bandara and Dr. H.L.K. Sanjaya. Without their invaluable support and guidance, this achievement would not have been possible. Thank you for being a part of my journey! #Aquaculture #Research #AsianSeabass #SriLanka #SustainableAquaculture #CopernicusData #RStudio #MarineBiology #OceanFarming
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🌳🐄🐑 Do you know what #woodpastures are? ❓ 🙁 They have now almost disapperead in Europe, however, in #Romania, wood pastures are still preserved. 💪 🌳🌱 Wood pastures are very old, highly #biodiverse and unique agricultural utilisation systems that were widespread throughout Europe for hundreds of years. In the course of agricultural intensification (inter alia merging of areas to suit farming machinery, removal of woody plants from farming areas, use of fertilisers and other chemicals), these cultures disappeared. 🚜 🐐 In Romania, however, many wood-pastures have been preserved and are still traditionally cultivated. An invaluable #culturalheritage for the whole of Europe. ✨ 🤓 We can draw lessons for modern #agroforestry systems from these wood-pastures. For this reason, the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (Trier University of Applied Sciences, Environmental Campus), together with its partners in Romania, has carried out analyses and various studies since 2022. 📝 📰 In the recently published study, the intricate biocultural values of ancient wood-pastures are explored, focusing on their social-ecological interactions and Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). Using #Transylvania, Romania, as a case study, it frames wood-pastures as biocultural systems shaped by centuries of traditional management. By employing social-ecological network analysis, RLQ, and fourth corner analysis, the research reveals how management practices, biophysical context, and NCP are interlinked. 🔍 Link to the study: https://lnkd.in/eejn9gyB Project website: https://lnkd.in/ejJJVi_7 #bioculturalvalues #bioculturalsystems #naturescontributiontopeople #agriculture #traditionalagriculture
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🌱 New Insights on Non-Native Plant Species Patterns Across the U.S. Recent research from the Rocky Mountain Research Station highlights a significant link between non-native plant species richness and human population density, particularly around greenhouse and nursery locations. This study reveals that areas with higher human populations and greenhouse density tend to have a greater presence of non-native plants, with implications for forest management and ecological resilience. Forests and forest mosaics are especially vulnerable, showing higher non-native species richness compared to other vegetation types. Explore the full findings for insights on managing non-native species and protecting native ecosystems: https://lnkd.in/gqsAKaRi
Non-native plant patterns and associations | US Forest Service Research and Development
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🌎 Can you put a price on #ecosystemservices? #Mangroves, for examples, provide a range of services to us... but can we assign them a monetary value? 🐟 Fishery Products 🌳 Forestry Products 🧬 Medicinal Resources 🌿 Carbon Sequestration 🐠 Nursery Grounds for Marine Life 🌊 Coastline Storm Protection (as seen in the video below) 💧 Seawater Intrusion Prevention (protecting groundwater)
CEO at Earthly | Optimistic Keynote Speaker | Host of Wilding Earth | On a mission to Restore >1% of the Planet by 2030
Mangrove Forests Unveil a 400-Fold Return When Measured Against Their True Economic Value 🌱 Putting a monetary value to the natural world is an incredibly difficult task, primarily because the vast contributions of nature are often significantly under-appreciated in economic terms. Take mangrove trees for example, important providers of a diverse range of ecosystem services, including: 🐟 Fishery Products 🌳 Forestry Products 🧬 Medicinal Resources 🌿 Carbon Sequestration 🐠 Nursery Grounds for Marine Life 🌊 Coastline Storm Protection (as seen in the video below) 💧 Seawater Intrusion Prevention (protecting groundwater) Diving into the numbers: A comprehensive study examining the economic valuation of mangroves in Indonesia estimated the worth of their ecosystem services to be $4,000 to $8,000 per hectare (1). With an average density of 5,000 trees per hectare (2) and a lifespan of 40 to 100 years (3), and considering a 20% mortality rate (which can vary from 1% to 50%), a single mangrove tree's lifetime value, as per this study, ranges from $25.60 to $128. Using the median per hectare value of $6,000 and a median lifespan of 70 years, again accounting for a 20% mortality rate, we land at a lifetime value of $84 per tree. At Earthly our collaborations with pioneering mangrove restoration projects, from Pakistan to Madagascar, reveal a striking 400-fold difference between the cost of planting (starting at $0.21 per tree) and the tree's median lifetime economic value of $84. This highlights not only the financial feasibility of restoration initiatives but also their vast environmental and economic benefits. I guess my main point here is to really highlight the irreplaceable value of mangroves and the broader natural world, emphasising the crucial environmental wealth that sustains our planet. Now imagine this example applied globally across all natural ecosystems. While it may seem crude to assign monetary values to nature, sometimes understanding something’s worth is often key to truly appreciating its significance. What do you think? (1) Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forests 2015, 6(9), 3028-3044; (2) Mangrove Restoration Toolkit SGP UNDP (3) The World Mangrove Atlas / The Ecology of Mangrove and Related Ecosystems - Wetlands Ecology and Management (Video Credit: Deltares) #MangroveRestoration #NaturalWealth #EcosystemServices #NaturalCapital
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At Earthly our collaborations with pioneering mangrove restoration projects, from Pakistan to Madagascar, reveal a striking 400-fold difference between the cost of planting (starting at $0.21 per tree) and the tree's median lifetime economic value of $84. This highlights not only the financial feasibility of restoration initiatives but also their vast environmental and economic benefits.✔️
CEO at Earthly | Optimistic Keynote Speaker | Host of Wilding Earth | On a mission to Restore >1% of the Planet by 2030
Mangrove Forests Unveil a 400-Fold Return When Measured Against Their True Economic Value 🌱 Putting a monetary value to the natural world is an incredibly difficult task, primarily because the vast contributions of nature are often significantly under-appreciated in economic terms. Take mangrove trees for example, important providers of a diverse range of ecosystem services, including: 🐟 Fishery Products 🌳 Forestry Products 🧬 Medicinal Resources 🌿 Carbon Sequestration 🐠 Nursery Grounds for Marine Life 🌊 Coastline Storm Protection (as seen in the video below) 💧 Seawater Intrusion Prevention (protecting groundwater) Diving into the numbers: A comprehensive study examining the economic valuation of mangroves in Indonesia estimated the worth of their ecosystem services to be $4,000 to $8,000 per hectare (1). With an average density of 5,000 trees per hectare (2) and a lifespan of 40 to 100 years (3), and considering a 20% mortality rate (which can vary from 1% to 50%), a single mangrove tree's lifetime value, as per this study, ranges from $25.60 to $128. Using the median per hectare value of $6,000 and a median lifespan of 70 years, again accounting for a 20% mortality rate, we land at a lifetime value of $84 per tree. At Earthly our collaborations with pioneering mangrove restoration projects, from Pakistan to Madagascar, reveal a striking 400-fold difference between the cost of planting (starting at $0.21 per tree) and the tree's median lifetime economic value of $84. This highlights not only the financial feasibility of restoration initiatives but also their vast environmental and economic benefits. I guess my main point here is to really highlight the irreplaceable value of mangroves and the broader natural world, emphasising the crucial environmental wealth that sustains our planet. Now imagine this example applied globally across all natural ecosystems. While it may seem crude to assign monetary values to nature, sometimes understanding something’s worth is often key to truly appreciating its significance. What do you think? (1) Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forests 2015, 6(9), 3028-3044; (2) Mangrove Restoration Toolkit SGP UNDP (3) The World Mangrove Atlas / The Ecology of Mangrove and Related Ecosystems - Wetlands Ecology and Management (Video Credit: Deltares) #MangroveRestoration #NaturalWealth #EcosystemServices #NaturalCapital
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Broadcaster. Journalist. Event Host. Ex-Bloomberg. Mediator. Occasional Actress/ Songwriter. #sustainablefinance #digitalfinance #ESG #SDGs #climateaction #transformation #impact
We need to talk about the true value of Nature. #impactinvesting #ESG #sustainablefinance
CEO at Earthly | Optimistic Keynote Speaker | Host of Wilding Earth | On a mission to Restore >1% of the Planet by 2030
Mangrove Forests Unveil a 400-Fold Return When Measured Against Their True Economic Value 🌱 Putting a monetary value to the natural world is an incredibly difficult task, primarily because the vast contributions of nature are often significantly under-appreciated in economic terms. Take mangrove trees for example, important providers of a diverse range of ecosystem services, including: 🐟 Fishery Products 🌳 Forestry Products 🧬 Medicinal Resources 🌿 Carbon Sequestration 🐠 Nursery Grounds for Marine Life 🌊 Coastline Storm Protection (as seen in the video below) 💧 Seawater Intrusion Prevention (protecting groundwater) Diving into the numbers: A comprehensive study examining the economic valuation of mangroves in Indonesia estimated the worth of their ecosystem services to be $4,000 to $8,000 per hectare (1). With an average density of 5,000 trees per hectare (2) and a lifespan of 40 to 100 years (3), and considering a 20% mortality rate (which can vary from 1% to 50%), a single mangrove tree's lifetime value, as per this study, ranges from $25.60 to $128. Using the median per hectare value of $6,000 and a median lifespan of 70 years, again accounting for a 20% mortality rate, we land at a lifetime value of $84 per tree. At Earthly our collaborations with pioneering mangrove restoration projects, from Pakistan to Madagascar, reveal a striking 400-fold difference between the cost of planting (starting at $0.21 per tree) and the tree's median lifetime economic value of $84. This highlights not only the financial feasibility of restoration initiatives but also their vast environmental and economic benefits. I guess my main point here is to really highlight the irreplaceable value of mangroves and the broader natural world, emphasising the crucial environmental wealth that sustains our planet. Now imagine this example applied globally across all natural ecosystems. While it may seem crude to assign monetary values to nature, sometimes understanding something’s worth is often key to truly appreciating its significance. What do you think? (1) Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forests 2015, 6(9), 3028-3044; (2) Mangrove Restoration Toolkit SGP UNDP (3) The World Mangrove Atlas / The Ecology of Mangrove and Related Ecosystems - Wetlands Ecology and Management (Video Credit: Deltares) #MangroveRestoration #NaturalWealth #EcosystemServices #NaturalCapital
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Importance of Mangrove forest
CEO at Earthly | Optimistic Keynote Speaker | Host of Wilding Earth | On a mission to Restore >1% of the Planet by 2030
Mangrove Forests Unveil a 400-Fold Return When Measured Against Their True Economic Value 🌱 Putting a monetary value to the natural world is an incredibly difficult task, primarily because the vast contributions of nature are often significantly under-appreciated in economic terms. Take mangrove trees for example, important providers of a diverse range of ecosystem services, including: 🐟 Fishery Products 🌳 Forestry Products 🧬 Medicinal Resources 🌿 Carbon Sequestration 🐠 Nursery Grounds for Marine Life 🌊 Coastline Storm Protection (as seen in the video below) 💧 Seawater Intrusion Prevention (protecting groundwater) Diving into the numbers: A comprehensive study examining the economic valuation of mangroves in Indonesia estimated the worth of their ecosystem services to be $4,000 to $8,000 per hectare (1). With an average density of 5,000 trees per hectare (2) and a lifespan of 40 to 100 years (3), and considering a 20% mortality rate (which can vary from 1% to 50%), a single mangrove tree's lifetime value, as per this study, ranges from $25.60 to $128. Using the median per hectare value of $6,000 and a median lifespan of 70 years, again accounting for a 20% mortality rate, we land at a lifetime value of $84 per tree. At Earthly our collaborations with pioneering mangrove restoration projects, from Pakistan to Madagascar, reveal a striking 400-fold difference between the cost of planting (starting at $0.21 per tree) and the tree's median lifetime economic value of $84. This highlights not only the financial feasibility of restoration initiatives but also their vast environmental and economic benefits. I guess my main point here is to really highlight the irreplaceable value of mangroves and the broader natural world, emphasising the crucial environmental wealth that sustains our planet. Now imagine this example applied globally across all natural ecosystems. While it may seem crude to assign monetary values to nature, sometimes understanding something’s worth is often key to truly appreciating its significance. What do you think? (1) Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forests 2015, 6(9), 3028-3044; (2) Mangrove Restoration Toolkit SGP UNDP (3) The World Mangrove Atlas / The Ecology of Mangrove and Related Ecosystems - Wetlands Ecology and Management (Video Credit: Deltares) #MangroveRestoration #NaturalWealth #EcosystemServices #NaturalCapital
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I love that Natural Solutions are coming to the fore.
CEO at Earthly | Optimistic Keynote Speaker | Host of Wilding Earth | On a mission to Restore >1% of the Planet by 2030
Mangrove Forests Unveil a 400-Fold Return When Measured Against Their True Economic Value 🌱 Putting a monetary value to the natural world is an incredibly difficult task, primarily because the vast contributions of nature are often significantly under-appreciated in economic terms. Take mangrove trees for example, important providers of a diverse range of ecosystem services, including: 🐟 Fishery Products 🌳 Forestry Products 🧬 Medicinal Resources 🌿 Carbon Sequestration 🐠 Nursery Grounds for Marine Life 🌊 Coastline Storm Protection (as seen in the video below) 💧 Seawater Intrusion Prevention (protecting groundwater) Diving into the numbers: A comprehensive study examining the economic valuation of mangroves in Indonesia estimated the worth of their ecosystem services to be $4,000 to $8,000 per hectare (1). With an average density of 5,000 trees per hectare (2) and a lifespan of 40 to 100 years (3), and considering a 20% mortality rate (which can vary from 1% to 50%), a single mangrove tree's lifetime value, as per this study, ranges from $25.60 to $128. Using the median per hectare value of $6,000 and a median lifespan of 70 years, again accounting for a 20% mortality rate, we land at a lifetime value of $84 per tree. At Earthly our collaborations with pioneering mangrove restoration projects, from Pakistan to Madagascar, reveal a striking 400-fold difference between the cost of planting (starting at $0.21 per tree) and the tree's median lifetime economic value of $84. This highlights not only the financial feasibility of restoration initiatives but also their vast environmental and economic benefits. I guess my main point here is to really highlight the irreplaceable value of mangroves and the broader natural world, emphasising the crucial environmental wealth that sustains our planet. Now imagine this example applied globally across all natural ecosystems. While it may seem crude to assign monetary values to nature, sometimes understanding something’s worth is often key to truly appreciating its significance. What do you think? (1) Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forests 2015, 6(9), 3028-3044; (2) Mangrove Restoration Toolkit SGP UNDP (3) The World Mangrove Atlas / The Ecology of Mangrove and Related Ecosystems - Wetlands Ecology and Management (Video Credit: Deltares) #MangroveRestoration #NaturalWealth #EcosystemServices #NaturalCapital
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Consultant ecologist. Eco content creator. Project Management.Continuous Improvement Green Belt.
Interesting post about monetary value of the natural world , worth reading and putting into local perspective especialy as our #biodiversitynetgain is already rolling for small and large developments.
CEO at Earthly | Optimistic Keynote Speaker | Host of Wilding Earth | On a mission to Restore >1% of the Planet by 2030
Mangrove Forests Unveil a 400-Fold Return When Measured Against Their True Economic Value 🌱 Putting a monetary value to the natural world is an incredibly difficult task, primarily because the vast contributions of nature are often significantly under-appreciated in economic terms. Take mangrove trees for example, important providers of a diverse range of ecosystem services, including: 🐟 Fishery Products 🌳 Forestry Products 🧬 Medicinal Resources 🌿 Carbon Sequestration 🐠 Nursery Grounds for Marine Life 🌊 Coastline Storm Protection (as seen in the video below) 💧 Seawater Intrusion Prevention (protecting groundwater) Diving into the numbers: A comprehensive study examining the economic valuation of mangroves in Indonesia estimated the worth of their ecosystem services to be $4,000 to $8,000 per hectare (1). With an average density of 5,000 trees per hectare (2) and a lifespan of 40 to 100 years (3), and considering a 20% mortality rate (which can vary from 1% to 50%), a single mangrove tree's lifetime value, as per this study, ranges from $25.60 to $128. Using the median per hectare value of $6,000 and a median lifespan of 70 years, again accounting for a 20% mortality rate, we land at a lifetime value of $84 per tree. At Earthly our collaborations with pioneering mangrove restoration projects, from Pakistan to Madagascar, reveal a striking 400-fold difference between the cost of planting (starting at $0.21 per tree) and the tree's median lifetime economic value of $84. This highlights not only the financial feasibility of restoration initiatives but also their vast environmental and economic benefits. I guess my main point here is to really highlight the irreplaceable value of mangroves and the broader natural world, emphasising the crucial environmental wealth that sustains our planet. Now imagine this example applied globally across all natural ecosystems. While it may seem crude to assign monetary values to nature, sometimes understanding something’s worth is often key to truly appreciating its significance. What do you think? (1) Economic Valuation of Mangroves for Comparison with Commercial Aquaculture in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forests 2015, 6(9), 3028-3044; (2) Mangrove Restoration Toolkit SGP UNDP (3) The World Mangrove Atlas / The Ecology of Mangrove and Related Ecosystems - Wetlands Ecology and Management (Video Credit: Deltares) #MangroveRestoration #NaturalWealth #EcosystemServices #NaturalCapital
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Sustainable blue-ocean development meetings and social media exchanges have proliferated during the past decade even as seafolk remain among the “poorest of the poor” where we live in the central Philippines. Micro-small-medium enterprises (MSME) comprise 95% of businesses globally and contribute more than half of total employment according to WTO. Seafolk in family-owned MSME predominate in tropical seaweed farming but many have failed and seek paths to recovery. Enterprise ecology engages seafolk in seaweed farm enterprises through adaptive phyconomy that applies arts, sciences and technologies to influence, manage and control marine ecosystem services valorized through fair ecoeconomic market systems. At SeaKITShub we are striving to build collaborations that engage with seafolk to restore tropical seashores one enterprise at a time through practical, real world enterprise ecology. Please join us by collaborating in this mission. See www.seakitshub.com #EnterpriseEcology #agroecology #blueocean #biodiversity #EcosystemServices #phyconomy #seaweedfarming #MSME #seakits #seashores
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