Protecting a Posidonia meadow only lasts if it funds itself. This is the whole model in one place: three maps that turn one loop, and where they are heading. The capacity to protect, the demand that pulls funding toward it, and the economics that let the money circulate, all converging on a year-by-year outlook that shows a town move from reacting to damage toward preventing it. Every piece is anchored to a real place where it has already worked.
Four frames, one legitimacy loop solved to equilibrium. Turn each frame on and off, switch the horizon, and watch the loop settle: legitimacy, demand, funding, and returns finding their balance.
Open the system model →Every program across three engines, capacity, mindset, and funding, each anchored to a real reference of economic traction, with the cheap, proven first steps flagged.
Open the program board →Supply is a stock you count; demand is a funnel you convert. Six stages from reach down to willingness to pay, gated by legitimacy and deepened by the durable programs.
Open the demand funnel →Who acts on what. The actors, from community to mayor, the actions each can take, and which map output feeds which of their decisions.
Open the stakeholder map →The three maps drawn forward over ten years: money in split reactive versus proactive, people involved, revenue, demand, and hectares protected, the whole arc from responding to preventing.
Open the outlook →The interactive buffet: pick investments across infrastructure, marketing, technology, and operations, stack them on one cost, return, and break-even chart, then tune the assumptions. Descriptive, not prescriptive: the mayor's move, and what it pays back.
Open the planner →None of this is hypothetical. The model is built on 21 real reference programs, every figure traced to a source: the Balearic tourism tax that has raised on the order of 780 million euro and funds Posidonia protection, the Medes Islands reserve earning about 5.26 million euro a year from diving with far more fish inside it, fisher co-management at Torre Guaceto that lifted catch, and EU LIFE seagrass budgets in the millions.
It is also honest about its edges. Willingness to pay is anchored to published valuation studies (about 10 euro per household per year for protection), and blue carbon is treated as a distant maybe, because no seagrass carbon credit has been sold anywhere in the world yet. The model shows the mechanism and the relationships; the exact euros are calibrated as the real Pollica numbers land.