Are we missing out in evaluating ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction measures? A review and way forward considering cascading benefits

IF 7 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Ecological Indicators Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113203

S. Janzen , J. Balzer , Y. Walz , Z. Sebesvari

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Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) are nature-based solutions increasingly taken up to contribute to reducing disaster risks. The implementation of Eco-DRR improves an ecosystem and its ecosystem services provision so as to reduce all or select components of disaster risk. Since ecosystems are interconnected, the benefits of an Eco-DRR measure may go well beyond the actual implementation site. Yet, Eco-DRR is generally evaluated at the level of the measure itself, missing out to capture the full range of risk-reducing ecosystem services and benefits, which may cascade across the landscape. This paper coins the term “cascading benefits” emerging from Eco-DRR and conceptualises the holistic evaluation of Eco-DRR considering cascading benefits to advance evaluation of Eco-DRR at the landscape level. First, the paper presents the results of a literature review designed to understand how Eco-DRR is evaluated to date and whether and how their cascading benefits are considered in the evaluation. The review identified 51 relevant papers, that allowed extracting 93 Eco-DRR evaluation criteria; none of which capture cascading benefits of Eco-DRR. Next, these 93 criteria were assessed for their potential applicability to evaluate cascading benefits, based on an additional, targeted literature review and 7 expert interviews. As a result, 23 criteria were identified for evaluating cascading benefits, providing an entry point for more holistic Eco-DRR evaluation in the future.

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Ecological Indicators 环境科学-环境科学

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11.80

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8.70%

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1163

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78 days

期刊介绍： The ultimate aim of Ecological Indicators is to integrate the monitoring and assessment of ecological and environmental indicators with management practices. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the applied scientific development and review of traditional indicator approaches as well as for theoretical, modelling and quantitative applications such as index development. Research into the following areas will be published. • All aspects of ecological and environmental indicators and indices. • New indicators, and new approaches and methods for indicator development, testing and use. • Development and modelling of indices, e.g. application of indicator suites across multiple scales and resources. • Analysis and research of resource, system- and scale-specific indicators. • Methods for integration of social and other valuation metrics for the production of scientifically rigorous and politically-relevant assessments using indicator-based monitoring and assessment programs. • How research indicators can be transformed into direct application for management purposes. • Broader assessment objectives and methods, e.g. biodiversity, biological integrity, and sustainability, through the use of indicators. • Resource-specific indicators such as landscape, agroecosystems, forests, wetlands, etc.