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  • Ecosystem Services Assessment
  • Land Use Change

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  • Built development significantly alters land and ecosystems, impacting human well-being and socioecological resilience.
  • There is a need for robust methods to assess ecosystem services pre- and post-development, shifting towards regenerative approaches.
  • The Rapid Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Services (RAWES) is an established methodology for systemic ecosystem service evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To outline innovations in RAWES methods for assessing ecosystem service changes due to development scenarios.
  • To adapt RAWES for evaluating post-development options and supporting a regenerative development paradigm.
  • To apply these adapted methods to a case study site in eastern England.

Main Methods:

  • Innovations include revised analysis of ecosystem service beneficiaries across multiple spatial scales.
  • A common baseline was established for comparing ecosystem service outcomes under various development scenarios.
  • A standardized method was developed for accounting for supporting services within the RAWES framework.

Main Results:

  • The adapted RAWES approach provides a systemic assessment of ecosystem services and their beneficiaries.
  • It allows for the evaluation of ecosystem service changes under different development scenarios.
  • Ecosystem Service Index scores can be derived from constituent service assessments.

Conclusions:

  • The enhanced RAWES methodology offers a robust tool for assessing development impacts on ecosystem services.
  • It supports a transition from "do less harm" to regenerative development practices.
  • The approach is applicable for evaluating land use change and informing sustainable development decisions.