Economic valuation of ecosystem services in Mexico: Current status and trends

Pérez-Verdín, Gustavo; Rivera, Enrique Sanjurjo; Galicia, Leopoldo; Hernández-Díaz, José Ciro; Hernández-Trejo, Víctor; Linares, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.07.003

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“…CVM has been widely used to evaluate environmental amenities and damage [27][28][29]; however, it has several biases. For example, respondents may deliberately conceal their true preferences for non-market goods favoring their personal interests, possibly resulting in strategic biases such as the overestimation or underestimation of value.…”

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Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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The evaluation of ecological security and ecosystem services is now a core issue in the field of natural and environmental resources. Quantifying the economic value of island ecosystem services can inform policy decisions that affect the island and help justify expenditures on ecosystem service improvements. This study investigates the preferences of residents and tourists regarding Green Island and estimates willingness-to-pay (WTP) values for island ecosystem services using a choice experiment. The results indicate significant differences between the preferences of residents and tourists regarding island environmental resources. Therefore, based on the multiple attributes and ecosystem services, this study formulated three assessment schemes: “environmental protection”, “recreational development”, and “integrated operation and management”. Based on our analysis of the problems reflected in the aforementioned valuation models, we recommend that policy makers refer to environmental attribute preferences to create statements or advertisements targeting relevant audiences when planning island development. This paper contributes to the literature by demonstrating how the economic valuation of island ecosystem services can help design and target island conservation policies in order to maximize welfare.

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Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Chen

2019

Sustainability

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“…Although in Mexico, studies on the measurement of wetland ecosystem service value variations as a consequence of land use changes have been carried out, most of them have focused on coastal wetlands (Mendoza-González et al, 2012;Camacho-Valdez et al, 2014) or some ecosystem services derived from them (Perez-Verdin et al, 2016). The main finding of these studies has been the significant loss of the ecosystem service values in mangroves ecosystems mainly caused by an increase in urban areas.…”

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Land Use Change and Urban Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Urban Wetlands in a Rapidly Sprawling City in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

Camacho-Valdez¹,

Tello-Alcaide²,

Wootton³

et al. 2019

JMS

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Urban wetlands provide a wide range of ecosystem services that are important for human-well-being. Despite their social and environmental importance, the degradation of urban wetlands continues mainly due to land use changes induced by rapid urbanization. Estimating the impact of these changes on ecosystem services is crucial to support the decision-making process of city planners at different levels. In this study, the spatial extents of the urban wetlands of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico were determined for the years 2001 and 2018 in order to relate the spatial changes between these years with the provision and economic value of ecosystem services. Google Earth and SPOT imagery were used to evaluate land use/land cover changes while international coefficients were used to assess the value of the ecosystem services by category. Findings reveal a 7.3% decrease in the urban wetland area and a 12.5% increase of urban areas during the study period. The ecosystem service valuation shows that the total value flow decreased around $5 million (2007 USD) during the 17-year period, mainly due to decreases in the potential for regulating and cultural services. The use of freely available land use/land cover data together with global ecosystem service estimates reduce the cost of ground data collection and provides quick and reliable information that could help decision makers with land use planning in the context of data-scarce regions.

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“…Localizado en Michoacán, México, el Bosque Santuario de la Mariposa Monarca (BSMM) es un bosque urbano que ofrece el espectáculo único de observar a esta palomilla en su hábitat natural -al igual que, como se indicó anteriormente, el Desierto brinda la oportunidad excepcional de recorrer un antiguo monasterio, y el Parque Nacional Los Dinamos, la de pasear al lado del lugar donde fluye la corriente de agua perenne más destacada de la llamada Cuenca de México-. Un viaje por persona al BSMM fluctúa entre 14.6 dólares y 16.4 dólares -según se ha estimado empleando a la vez datos sobre el costo del viaje y el comportamiento contingente (Kido y Seidl, 2008;Kido, Seidl y Loomis, 2005;Pérez-Verdín et al, 2016)-. El valor estimado del viaje al BSMM es considerablemente más elevado que el de Los Dinamos, pero es virtualmente el mismo que el emprendido por uno de los tipos de visitantes del Desierto, así como suma que se aproxima a la mitad del valor del que lleva a cabo otro tipo de visitante de este último sitio.…”

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El valor de dos espacios recreativos periurbanos en la Ciudad de México

Martínez-Cruz

Sainz-Santamaria

2017

El Trimestre

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Background: Despite that urban ecosystems are exceptionally important in providing services with direct impact on people's health, security, and recreation, policy makers had largely overlooked their relevance. Non-market valuation of urban ecosystems is useful to inform cost-benefit analyses -which is particularly pressing in developing world cities, where peri-urban forests are deteriorated. We estimate the recreational value of Desierto de los Leones National Park and Dinamos Park -two peri-urban recreational sites near Mexico City. Methods: We implement the Travel Cost Method which estimates the use value of a recreational site by inferring the annual demand for trips to such site. Demand estimation is carried out via latent class count models (LCCM) to control for the heterogeneity in preferences suggested by the presence of large number of visits from a subgroup of visitors.

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Economic valuation of ecosystem services in Mexico: Current status and trends

Cited by 61 publications

References 80 publications

Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Economic Valuation of Green Island, Taiwan: A Choice Experiment Method

Land Use Change and Urban Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Urban Wetlands in a Rapidly Sprawling City in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

El valor de dos espacios recreativos periurbanos en la Ciudad de México

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