Despite the popularity of coastal recreational ecosystem services, and their linked synergies and tradeoffs with regulating and provisioning ecosystem services, there is uncertainty over integration into decision-making. There are few empirical analyses of decision-making, and “governance is largely ignored” (Primmer et al., 2015, pg. 158). This case study details decision-making following a major coastal hazard, Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States (U.S.). It illustrates how collaborative adaptive governance of recreational ecosystem services enhances coastal resilience, or the ability to recover after a hazard. Evidence of resilience centered policy is surprising in the U.S. state of Texas, a conservative subnational area where the denial of climate change science is popular in the epicenter of the U.S. oil and gas industry. This research suggests the devastating hurricane and the popularity of recreational ecosystem services provided a window of opportunity for policy makers to address resilience, which would have been otherwise impossible for political reasons. As part of this process, decision-makers and stakeholders 1) sought out new and innovative funding sources for rapid recreational infrastructure repairs focused on resilience, 2) prevented the loss of public waterfronts and small businesses in the nature based recreational economy that constitute major parts of local identity, and 3) enhanced decision maker capacity to include local ecological knowledge in novel and potentially transformative ways. Recreational ecosystem services, due to their obvious economic importance and popularity, may act as unifying symbols to decision-makers, allowing them enact policy to respond to climate impacts and to conserve ecosystem services in places where this is otherwise politically unpopular.

尽管沿海休闲生态系统服务很受欢迎，并且它们与调节和提供生态系统服务之间存在协同作用和权衡，但在融入决策方面存在不确定性。对决策制定的实证分析很少，“治理在很大程度上被忽视”（Primmer 等，2015，第 158 页）。本案例研究详细介绍了美国 (US) 墨西哥湾发生重大沿海灾害哈维飓风后的决策。它说明了休闲生态系统服务的协作适应性治理如何增强沿海复原力或灾害后恢复的能力。在美国德克萨斯州，以韧性为中心的政策的证据令人惊讶，这是一个保守的次国家地区，在美国的震中，人们普遍否认气候变化科学 石油和天然气工业。这项研究表明，毁灭性的飓风和休闲生态系统服务的普及为政策制定者提供了一个机会之窗来解决弹性问题，否则由于政治原因是不可能做到的。作为此过程的一部分，决策者和利益相关者 1) 为专注于恢复力的快速娱乐基础设施修复寻找新的和创新的资金来源，2) 防止构成主要部分的基于自然的娱乐经济中的公共滨水区和小企业的损失当地身份，以及 3) 增强决策者的能力，以新颖和潜在的变革方式纳入当地生态知识。休闲生态系统服务，由于其明显的经济重要性和受欢迎程度，可以作为决策者的统一标志，