A decision framework for estimating the cost of marine plastic pollution interventions

• DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13827
• Publication Date: 2021-09-01T07:29:55Z
• Authors: Erin L. Murphy; Miranda Bernard; Gwenllian Iacona; Stephanie B. Borr...; Megan Barnes; Alexis McGivern; Jorge Emmanuel; Leah R. Gerber
• Keywords: Social cost

Marine plastic pollution has emerged as one of the most pressing environmental challenges our time. Although there been a surge in global investment for implementing interventions to mitigate pollution, little attention given cost these interventions. We developed decision support framework identify economic, social, and ecological costs benefits different sectors stakeholders. calculated net function six benefit categories with following equation: an intervention (direct, indirect, nonmonetary costs) minus recovered (monetary nonmonetary) produced by applied two quantitative case studies (a solid waste management plan trash interceptor) four comparative studies, evaluating beach cleanups waste-to-energy plants various contexts, factors that influence The socioeconomic context implementation, spatial scale time evaluation all distribution across Our provides approach estimate compare range sociopolitical economic contexts.