Ecosystem service provision by marine habitats in Southeast Asia

GCRF Blue Communities is developing interdisciplinary research capability and lasting collaborations that can facilitate innovative application of integrated planning in the marine environment and respond to the UN Sustainable Development Goals of “no poverty’, “zero hunger’, “good health and well-being’ for coastal communities as well as “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development’ through the sustainable use of marine resources. It aims to provide a research base that supports planning in the marine environment (marine planning) through a novel integration of ecosystem services, ecosystem valuation (monetary and non-monetary), ecological public health, and governance approaches.

Project 3 contributes to this overall aim by spatially defining what ecosystem services are delivered by each case study site, their uses and the pressures upon them. This report focuses specifically on ecosystem service delivery of marine habitats in SE Asia to ensure it can be applied to the case study sites.

Figure 1: Case study sites in the study area. The map was created with shapefiles publically available from www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/support/downloads/shapefiles.html using QGIS (www.qgis.org).

This report has been prepared as part of a research programme, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), via the delivery partner Research and Innovation (UKRI), under grant agreement reference NE/P021107/1 to the Blue Communities research programme.