Development of a new framework for non-monetary accounting on ecosystem services valuation

Yang, Qing; Liu, Gengyuan; Casazza, Marco; Campbell, Elliott; Giannetti, Biagio F.; Brown, Mark T.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.09.006

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“…For this purpose, the project team will apply a variety of methods-see, for example, [5,10,47,48]. The ecosystem services will be classified and quantified by applying a non-monetary donor-side approach based on emergy accounting (see, for example, [49,50]). The emergy method, which was proposed and developed by the system ecologist H.T.…”

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Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Reduction in Small Mediterranean Catchments: The Case of Portofino Natural Regional Park, Italy

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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are usually defined as complementary or alternative solutions to “grey infrastructures” (traditionally made with cement) aimed at conserving and regenerating the functionality of natural and semi-natural ecosystems. The research to date shows a considerable potential of NBS to address the current challenges related to climate change and geo-hydrological risks. Despite significant interest in NBS by researchers and practitioners, knowledge concerning their practical implementation, monitoring, and evaluation is still lacking. This is particularly true for large-scale NBS. The present paper discusses how such solutions can be implemented in the context of hydro-meteorological risk reduction in small Mediterranean catchments with a strong tourist vocation. The work presented here is situated within the RECONECT Project (Regenerating ECOsystems with Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk rEduCTion), which aims to contribute to a European reference framework on NBS by demonstrating, upscaling, and replicating large-scale NBS in rural and natural areas. The Italian case study of RECONECT is the Portofino Natural Regional Park, which represents a unique natural landscape element with high ecologic, social, and economic (touristic) value, which is threatened by a range of geo-hydrological hazards, such as flash floods, hyper-concentrated floods, shallow landslides, rockfalls, and storm surges. This paper also presents details of NBS interventions in two pilot catchments (San Fruttuoso and Paraggi) visited by thousands of tourists throughout the year. It addresses some of the key aspects related to monitoring meteorological and hydrological processes, as well as remote sensing activities (i.e., LiDAR surveys), which are necessary for the identification of critical-instability areas along waterways and the reconstruction of dry stone walls. Lastly, a discussion of relevant mitigation and adaptation strategies that are potentially replicable at national and international levels is also provided.

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Section: Nbs Performance Indicatorsmentioning

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“…τ is emergy transformity, That is, the amount of solar energy per unit of matter or energy(sej/m ). According to Buenfil's calculations [6], the conversion rates of solar energy in mineral water and purified water are 1.43 10 sej/ and 1.56 10 / . We use the emergy/money ratio to convert emergy to money flow:…”

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“…Market price method and emergy evaluation method can not evaluate the atmospheric environmental damage very precisely. According to the above reason, we choose the virtual governance cost method [6] to evaluate it. The idea is that the cost of virtual governance is calculated by the cost method of governance, that is, the cost of governance that is used to prevent the degradation of environmental functions is equal to the assumed cost of pollution control and the harm caused by pollution emissions.…”

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The Value of a Land Use Project’s Ecosystem Services

Liu¹

2019

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The evaluation of ecosystem service value is a focus issue in the construction of ecological civilization in China. With the progress of human civilization, various types of land use projects are increasing day by day, which not only bring huge economic benefits, but also profoundly affect the regional land use pattern and ecological process, and have many influences on ecosystem services. In order to understand the real economic cost of land use projects, it is urgent to evaluate the ecosystem service cost of specific land use projects. In this paper, an ecological service evaluation model for comprehensive evaluation of land use project ecological service value is established. In this model, the emerging theory, virtual disposal cost method and market price method are applied to quantify the ecosystem service cost of land use project from four aspects of water, land, gas and biology. Using our model, we can estimate the ecological cost of a land use project more quickly and obtain the real economic cost of the project. Taking a thermal power plant as an example, the annual cost of the system service is calculated based on the ecosystem evaluation model and the existing model. By comparing the results of the two models, the feasibility and validity of the model are revealed.

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“…Factors affecting the cost of environmental degradation include: industrial structure, per capita GDP level, national environmental investment, national infrastructure investment, total energy consumption and other factors [6]. The state of the country's industrial structure will have a direct impact on the environmental degradation costs of various industries.…”

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Study on the Cost of Environmental Degradation

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Sun²,

Meng³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy, Environment and Information Engineering (SEEIE 2019

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We propose an ecosystem service assessment model, Consider the problem from both the dominant and implicit environmental degradation costs. In order to obtain the cost of environmental degradation, we first use the factor analysis method to calculate the environmental pollution index of China's "three wastes" emissions from 2008 to 2017, and then use regression analysis and marginal analysis to analyze the environmental degradation costs caused by changes in environmental pollution indices. Secondly, we use the environmental pollution index as the explanatory variable, the explicit and implicit environmental degradation cost as the explanatory variables, and the industrial structure and per capita GDP level as the control factors to establish the regression model. Regression analysis using SPSS software can obtain correlation regression coefficients, and then analyze the correlation between environmental pollution index and environmental degradation cost. Finally, the environmental degradation cost is calculated by the absolute value of the environmental pollution index difference. It can be observed that the environmental degradation cost increases with time.

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Development of a new framework for non-monetary accounting on ecosystem services valuation

Cited by 75 publications

References 54 publications

Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Reduction in Small Mediterranean Catchments: The Case of Portofino Natural Regional Park, Italy

Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Reduction in Small Mediterranean Catchments: The Case of Portofino Natural Regional Park, Italy

The Value of a Land Use Project’s Ecosystem Services

Study on the Cost of Environmental Degradation

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