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Table 2 Project scale core Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models & Socio-Economic Indicators Project metrics

From: Advancing consistent socio-economic monitoring of coastal ecosystem restoration through collaborative metric development

Outcome	Metric	Tier	Habitat restoration (7 project types)	Oyster restoration (6 project types)	Recreational enhancement (3 project types)	Water quality improvement (7 project types)
Core metrics common across all categories and project types
Economic activity: restoration/intervention	Number of restoration jobs supported by project	1	7^a	6^a	3^a	7^a
Economic activity: restoration/intervention	Restoration expenditures by project	1	7^a	6^a	3^a	7^a
Core metrics common across all project categories
Economic activity: recreation and tourism	Change in recreational activity expenditures associated with project site visitation	2	5^a	3^a	2^a	4^a
Human health: Mental health & psychological well-being	Change in cognitive function	2	5^a	3^a	3^a	4^a
Human health: Mental health & psychological well-being	Change in subjective well-being	2	5^a	3^a	3^a	4^a
Additional core metrics for specific project categories
Cultural values: knowledge	Education-related knowledge: Number of people with additional knowledge of habitat effects and other project outcomes	2	6^a	3^a	2^a	3
Cultural values: knowledge	Awareness: Number of people with additional knowledge of habitat effects and other project outcomes based on project site	2	6^a	3^a	2^a	3
Cultural values: other	Project identified cultural value	2	5^a	6^a	3^a	2
Economic activity: recreation and tourism	Number of jobs supported through recreational fishing at project site	2	5^a	3^a	2^a	2
Economic activity: recreation and tourism	Change in recreational fishing expenditures associated with project site visitation	2	5^a	3^a	2^a	2
Human health: food security for communities	Proportion of surveyed harvesters who say that food caught/harvested at the site is important for feeding their household	2	4^a	4^a	3^a	1
Property protection	Amount of property adjacent to shoreline with reduced erosion after project	2	5^a	3^a	0	0
Property value	Change in property value across affected properties	2	3	0	3^a	3

The four right-hand columns (one for each project category) indicate the number of individual project types within that category that are strongly linked to the metric, meaning that the project type is expected to meaningfully influence the metric.
^athe metric is strongly linked to at least half of the project types within the project category and is considered a core metric for that category.

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