mapping ecosystem services to human well-being - mesh tool demo
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MESH: A new model for Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human wellbeing for the Sustainable
Development Goals
Justin Andrew JohnsonCo-authors: Sylvia L.R. Wood; Sarah Jones; Fabrice DeClerck
We’ve become decent at modeling ecosystem service supply…
We’re not yet good at connecting to policy or human well-being.
Coastal Vulnerability
Coastal Protection
Overlap Analysis
Wave Energy
Habitat Quality/Risk Assessment
Water Yield
Carbon sequestratio
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Managed Timber
Production
Crop Pollination
Nutrient Retention
(Water quality)
AestheticQuality
Recreation
Crop Production
Flood Risk Mitigation
Sediment Retention (Water
quality, Avoided dredging)
Fisheries (including
recreational)
AquacultureMarine Water
Quality
Non-Timber Forest
ProductsBlue Carbon
e.g. 20 InVEST models
MESH originated from SNAP Working Group: Making Ecosystem Services Count
in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
MESH Model:Open Source (python)
Free
Beta version available at www.naturalcapitalproject.org/mesh
(still has some bugs but is useful)
1.0 release planned for early 2016.
Simple input
FRONT END:Define scenarios,
get data
INTERNAL ES MODELS:
Sediment retention
Pollination
Water yield
many others
BACK END:Distill results,
compare decisions
Simple output
Necessary complexity
Major stakeholder challenge:
front-end and back-end
difficulties
Resembles a diamond shaped
process in terms of
complexity
Software demo time!
1: Create new project and set area of interest (AOI) shapefile.
2: Select which models to run
3: Create your scenarios, place input data in the created folders
4: Link input data to scenarios
5: Run “Setup Run” for each model.
6: Ensure that each selected model is ready for the full MESH run
Yay!
Yay!
7: Click run. This runs each selected model through each selected scenario (potentially 1000s of combinations)
8: Check to see if your run has worked. Run other scenario-model pairs if desired.
9: Create raw-data spatial outputs
10: Create “nice,” formatted maps from the spatial output
11: Save formatted maps to the correct scenario’s output folder
12: Create report for desired run from report templates
13: Review dynamically created report
14: Edit in the program or in (for example) Microsoft’s WORD.
Thank youJustin Andrew Johnson
Questions? [email protected]
@jandrewjohnsJustinandrewjohnson.com
www.naturalcapitalproject.org/mesh
Co-authors: Sylvia L.R. Wood; Sarah Jones; Fabrice DeClerck
Appendix
How are the SDGs related to Ecosystem Services?
SDG 2. End hunger, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
SDG 3. Attain healthy lives for all
SDG 6. Ensure availability and sustainable use of water and sanitation
SDG 7. Ensure sustainable energy
SDG13. Tackle climate change
SDG14. Conserve and promote sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources
SDG15. Protect and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, halt desertification, land degradation and biodiversity loss
Strategic Grants
Private Sector
$$
Civil Society $$
Govt
$$
Why do countries care about SDGs?
• Global funds unlock large $$• Intl. funding will be channeled along
SDGs • Pooled financing mechanisms
• The Global Fund• Catalytic Fund for Nutrition • the Global Financing Facility• The GEF
*A significant portion of SDG investment will also come from private companies – key partners in large infrastructure partnerships
Engagement with stakeholders throughout
Engagement with stakeholders throughout
(1) Incentives
(2) Actions
Ecological production functions
(6) Valuation
(3) Non-anthropocentric approaches
Other considerations
Benefitsand costs
Decisions by firms and individuals
Policy decisions
Ecosystems
Ecosystem services
(7) Economicefficiency
(5) Biophysical tradeoffs
(4)
Polasky & Segerson Annual Review of Resource Economics 1: 409-434.