Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis and Scenario Valuation of Changes in Ecosystem Services

Bateman, Ian J.; Harwood, Amii R.; Abson, David J.; Andrews, Barnaby; Crowe, Andrew; Dugdale, Steve; Fezzi, Carlo; Foden, Jo; Hadley, David; Haines-Young, Roy; Hulme, Mark F.; Kontoleon, Andreas; Munday, Paul; Pascual, Unai; Paterson, James; Perino, Grischa; Sen, Antara; Siriwardena, G.; Termansen, Mette

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“…More recent work indicates that the incorporation of ecosystem services and their values within analyses can substantially change decisions and is highly relevant to policy-makers (Bateman et al, 2014).…”

Section: -Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Measures in the United Kingdom

Jones¹,

Silcock²,

Uetake

2015

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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Section: -Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Measures in the United Kingdom

Jones¹,

Silcock²,

Uetake

2015

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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“…It has also found expression in a reinvigoration of neoclassical economic approaches to environmental issues, ranging from the economic rationale for action on climate change (Stern 2007) to the value of ecosystem services at the global, national and regional level (Hein et al 2006;de Groot et al 2012;Bateman et al 2014;Kubiszewski et al 2013) and the value of services provided by specifi c ecosystems Lal et al 2009). A recent survey indicated that the publication of academic articles involving ecosystem services has increased exponentially since the late 1990s, these being published in over 50 diff erent journals (Crossman et al 2013).…”

Section: Economic Valuation Techniques and Valuing Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

Clifton¹,

Cullen-Unsworth²,

Unsworth³

2014

Environment and Society

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Ⅲ ABSTRACT: Th e fl ow of ecosystem services from coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests sustains the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide. Faced with the global degradation of marine and coastal ecosystems, policy makers are increasingly focusing on ecosystem service valuation techniques to encourage conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. Here we provide a review and synthesis of the available information on economic valuation techniques as applied to tropical marine habitats. Our study demonstrates the high variability and lack of consistency in outcomes from these studies. We conclude that, if the concept of ecosystem goods and services is to make a positive contribution towards managing the impacts of humans on the environment, then economic valuation approaches must refl ect the inherent limitations of economic theory whilst emphasizing the complexity and heterogeneity of the natural environment and human decision making.

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“…Enhancing important services such as biodiversity and carbon sequestration requires modifications in land-use that can lead to decline in other ecosystems services. Hence for policy and management decisions the value of these services is often most meaningfully understood in term of the trade-offs with other valuable uses of the land (Turner et al 2003;Bateman et al 2014). Decision makers are sensitive to costs of actions, particularly where this involves non-marketed ecosystem services.…”

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Opportunity Cost Estimation of Ecosystem Services

Ruijs

Kortelainen

Wossink

et al. 2015

Environ Resource Econ

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Land-use changes rank among the most significant drivers of change in ecosystem services worldwide. The enhancement of important services such as biodiversity and carbon sequestration requires modifications in land-use that can lead to the decline in other ecosystems services. Targeting the most suitable areas for particular land-uses based on comparative advantages requires opportunity cost information across large regions. This is a demanding task because the input-output relations are ill-defined and determined by spatially heterogeneous operational and environmental conditions. To address this methodological challenge, this paper presents a two-stage semiparametric technique that enables multi-dimensional production possibility frontiers to be estimated from data provided by biophysical models. Specific advantages of the proposed frontier approach are its flexibility with regard to assumptions on the convexity of the production possibility set and its freedom from any separability B Arjan Ruijs arjan.ruijs@pbl.nl M. Kortelainen mika.kortelainen@vatt.fi A. Wossink A. Ruijs et al.assumptions for the input-output space and the space of the heterogeneous background variables. The method is illustrated for a case study of 18 Central and Eastern European countries. Results show that opportunity costs of changes in ecosystem services provision differ substantially between regions. Those areas having already relatively high levels of carbon sequestration have a comparative advantage in sequestering carbon. Opportunity costs of biodiversity are generally positively related with the level of biodiversity up to a turning point after which they are negatively related. To illustrate the policy consequences of the observed economies and diseconomies of scope we compare two management regimes to illustrate the potential gains from smart land management.

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Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis and Scenario Valuation of Changes in Ecosystem Services

Cited by 58 publications

References 54 publications

Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Measures in the United Kingdom

Public Goods and Externalities: Agri-environmental Policy Measures in the United Kingdom

Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

Opportunity Cost Estimation of Ecosystem Services

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