Increasing demand for ecological restoration in the pursuit of long-term persistence of resource benefits has resulted in the development of a “restoration economy” in the United States, which has provided opportunity for business growth associated with ecological sustainability. Nearly all the restoration monitoring and evaluation efforts focus on the ecological outcomes of restoration, although the social and economic outcomes have received far less attention. One type of economic outcome that is often overlooked includes short-term economic impacts, which measure the market activity associated with the implementation of an ecological restoration project. This paper will provide an overview of how input–output analysis can be used as a method to quantify the short-term economic impacts of ecological restoration projects. Using the Lone Cabbage Reef restoration project in Florida as a case study and IMPLAN regional economic modeling software, we found that the implementation phase of the project supported 44 full-time and part-time jobs earning $1.01 million in labor income and generated $5.08 million in total industry output, including $3.02 million in total value added within the regional economy. These findings support the notion that short-term economic impacts are an important component when evaluating ecological restoration projects and can provide stakeholders with immediate and tangible, albeit short-term results.

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河口和沿海环境生态恢复的短期经济影响：以孤甘蓝礁为例

为了追求资源效益的长期持续性，对生态恢复的需求不断增加，导致美国发展了“恢复经济”，这为与生态可持续性相关的业务增长提供了机会。几乎所有的恢复监测和评估工作都集中在恢复的生态成果上，尽管社会和经济成果受到的关注要少得多。一种经常被忽视的经济成果包括短期经济影响，它衡量与实施生态恢复项目相关的市场活动。本文将概述如何使用投入产出分析作为量化生态恢复项目短期经济影响的方法。-全日制和非全日制工作带来 101 万美元的劳动收入，并产生 508 万美元的工业总产值，其中包括 302 万美元的区域经济总增加值。这些发现支持这样一种观点，即短期经济影响是评估生态恢复项目时的重要组成部分，并且可以为利益相关者提供即时和切实的结果，尽管是短期的结果。