The valuation of ecosystem services

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Authors

  • Edward B. Barbier
  • Stefan Baumgärtner
  • Kanchan Chopra
  • Christopher Costello
  • Anantha Duraiappah
  • Rashid Hassan
  • Anna P. Kinzig
  • Markus Lehman
  • Unai Pascual
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Charles Perrings
By harnessing recent results on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning to an assessment of the valued services that people obtain from the natural environment, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) has brought the analysis of ecosystems into the domain of economics. Ecosystem services are defined by the MA as the benefits that people obtain from ecosystems. Since the value of any asset is simply the discounted stream of benefits that are obtained from that asset, the benefit streams associated with ecosystem services may be used to estimate the value of the underlying ecological assets. Those assets are not the traditional stocks of resource economics - minerals, water, timber and so on - but the systems that yield flows of such things. This chapter discusses the value of ecosystems and ecosystem services. It identifies the main methods for valuing different types of ecosystem service, and the role of valuation in developing sustainability indicators. The sustainability of economic development requires that the value of the assets or capital stocks supporting development be maintained over time, and since capital includes produced, human and natural capital, it is important to understand how the value of ecosystems may be changing relative to the value of other capital stocks.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelBiodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing : An Ecological and Economic Perspective
HerausgeberShahid Naeem, Daniel E. Bunker, Andy Hector, Michel Loreau, Charles Perrings
Anzahl der Seiten15
ErscheinungsortOxford [u.a.]
VerlagOxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum30.07.2009
Seiten248-262
ISBN (Print)978-019954795-1
ISBN (elektronisch)978-019172034-5
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 30.07.2009

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