Developing a sustainability framework for eco-engineering of blue infrastructure

IF 4.1 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY Ecological Engineering Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107604

Joseph W. Parkinson , Ciaran McLaverty , Pernille Nielsen , Jon C. Svendsen , Ana T. Lima , Martin Macnaughton , Wolfgang Kunther

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Abstract

Coastal hardening, via marine infrastructure construction (MIC), is contributing to the urbanisation of coastal environments, adding challenges for the resilience of marine ecosystems. Concrete is the preferred material for MIC due to desirable construction properties. Ecological-engineering efforts aim to increase the ecological value of concrete use in MIC via artificial material modifications, promoting ecological functions of MIC and creating new artificial marine habitats. Generally, ecological-engineering efforts include a wide array of stakeholders with variations for any singular project dependent on a myriad of environmental, resource and societal factors which affect the scale, scope and budget of projects. This can potentially lead to missing elements for obtaining an encompassing sustainability assessment of these types of projects on a societal, environmental and economic level. This perspective communication identifies and discusses experiences from recent ecological-engineering projects with concrete. Development of a collaborative, interdisciplinary framework will hope to guide current and future projects to achieve sustainability for ecological engineering practices for MIC.

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开发蓝色基础设施生态工程的可持续性框架

通过海洋基础设施建设（MIC），海岸硬化正在促进沿海环境的城市化，增加了对海洋生态系统恢复能力的挑战。由于理想的施工性能，混凝土是MIC的首选材料。生态工程的努力旨在通过人工材料改性，促进MIC的生态功能和创造新的人工海洋栖息地来增加MIC中混凝土使用的生态价值。一般来说，生态工程的努力包括广泛的利益相关者，任何单一项目的变化都取决于影响项目规模、范围和预算的无数环境、资源和社会因素。这可能会导致在社会、环境和经济层面上对这些类型的项目进行全面的可持续性评估时缺少要素。这一视角的交流识别并讨论了最近的混凝土生态工程项目的经验。开发一个协作的跨学科框架将有望指导当前和未来的项目，以实现MIC生态工程实践的可持续性。

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Ecological Engineering 环境科学-工程：环境

CiteScore

8.00

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5.30%

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293

审稿时长

57 days

期刊介绍： Ecological engineering has been defined as the design of ecosystems for the mutual benefit of humans and nature. The journal is meant for ecologists who, because of their research interests or occupation, are involved in designing, monitoring, or restoring ecosystems, and can serve as a bridge between ecologists and engineers. Specific topics covered in the journal include: habitat reconstruction; ecotechnology; synthetic ecology; bioengineering; restoration ecology; ecology conservation; ecosystem rehabilitation; stream and river restoration; reclamation ecology; non-renewable resource conservation. Descriptions of specific applications of ecological engineering are acceptable only when situated within context of adding novelty to current research and emphasizing ecosystem restoration. We do not accept purely descriptive reports on ecosystem structures (such as vegetation surveys), purely physical assessment of materials that can be used for ecological restoration, small-model studies carried out in the laboratory or greenhouse with artificial (waste)water or crop studies, or case studies on conventional wastewater treatment and eutrophication that do not offer an ecosystem restoration approach within the paper.