Ecosystem service assessment and mapping for sustainable management of wetlands in Kerala, India

Michael Sinclair, Andrea Ghermandi, Sheela A. Moses, Sabu Joseph

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Abstract

Passively crowdsourced social media act as an opportunistic source of behavioural data for ecosystem services analysis. Public geotagged photographs, for instance, represent a unique form of revealed preference data, available at wide scales and low cost. In this chapter, the authors use online geotagged photographs from Flickr to evaluate and map recreation to the wetlands of Kerala State, India. Photographs’ metadata are used to: (1) estimate the most visited wetlands; (2) uncover patterns of recreational use across different wetlands types; (3) investigate the relationship between visitation and various wetland and site-specific attributes such as area and water quality, though regression analysis; and (4) test scenarios of wetland improvement and their potential to impact visitation to five coastal wetlands presently suffering from poor water quality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEnvironmental Assessments
Subtitle of host publicationScenarios, Modelling and Policy
EditorsK. Ninan
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Pages200-214
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781788976879
ISBN (Print)9781788976862
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2020

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© K.N. Ninan 2020. All rights reserved.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Environmental Science
  • General Social Sciences

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