International valuation databases: Overview, methods and operational issues

McComb, Greg; Lantz, Van; Nash, Katrina; Rittmaster, Robyn

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.05.009

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“…Although emissions and consumption patterns are not uniform within each income group, our analysis highlights the ecological harm poor countries bear to indirectly enable the living standards of wealthier nations. Given current data availability and the difficulty of addressing interactions between drivers, our estimates are provisional but can be reevaluated as researchers continue to document ecosystem change and its drivers, value human impacts to ecosystem service f lows, and extend techniques to transfer valuations made in different contexts (40).…”

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confidence: 99%

The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities

Srinivasan¹,

Carey²,

Hallstein³

et al. 2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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As human impacts to the environment accelerate, disparities in the distribution of damages between rich and poor nations mount. Globally, environmental change is dramatically affecting the flow of ecosystem services, but the distribution of ecological damages and their driving forces has not been estimated. Here, we conservatively estimate the environmental costs of human activities over 1961-2000 in six major categories (climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, agricultural intensification and expansion, deforestation, overfishing, and mangrove conversion), quantitatively connecting costs borne by poor, middle-income, and rich nations to specific activities by each of these groups. Adjusting impact valuations for different standards of living across the groups as commonly practiced, we find striking imbalances. Climate change and ozone depletion impacts predicted for low-income nations have been overwhelmingly driven by emissions from the other two groups, a pattern also observed for overfishing damages indirectly driven by the consumption of fishery products. Indeed, through disproportionate emissions of greenhouse gases alone, the rich group may have imposed climate damages on the poor group greater than the latter's current foreign debt. Our analysis provides prima facie evidence for an uneven distribution pattern of damages across income groups. Moreover, our estimates of each group's share in various damaging activities are independent from controversies in environmental valuation methods. In a world increasingly connected ecologically and economically, our analysis is thus an early step toward reframing issues of environmental responsibility, development, and globalization in accordance with ecological costs. ecological degradation ͉ ecosystem change ͉ ecosystem services ͉ external cost

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities

Srinivasan¹,

Carey²,

Hallstein³

et al. 2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

176

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“…Some examples using benefit transfer for applied benefit-cost analysis include Bateman et al [23], Brisson and Pearce [24], Brouwer [25], Ruijrok [26], Smith et al [20], Griffiths and Wheeler [7], Iovanna and Griffiths [8], McComb et al [9], and Columbo and Hanley [6].…”

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“…Although a meta-regression analysis has been mainly used as a method for transferring the benefit from the existing sites (study site) to new sites (policy site), this method is also applicable to our study since the objective of our study is to present credible evidence all relevant stakeholders can agree with based on involving not only all previous studies independently conducted along the Han River Basin but also other similar studies related to water management in South Korea. The number of benefit transfer case studies using a meta-regression analysis has been conducted in other countries ( [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] among many others) but has not been used in South Korea. To the best of our knowledge, this study may be the first attempt to apply meta-analysis to strive for more efficient allocation of benefits when the economic problems associated with water resource use between stakeholders exist.…”

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Benefit Transfer for Water Management along the Han River in South Korea Using Meta-Regression Analysis

Shin

Kim²,

Jeon³

et al. 2016

Water

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This study estimates the magnitude of economic benefits that are justified in transfer from downstream users to upstream users for the use of the Han River in South Korea in terms of foregone economic benefits by regulations. Based on the existing non-market valuation studies associated with water management issues in South Korea from 1997 to 2014, a meta-regression analysis was performed to provide alternatives for regional benefit sharing of water resource use. The benefits from the use of water resource along the Han River are estimated on average to be KRW 7,728 (US $7.7) per household per month. The total net benefits are estimated to be about KRW 449 billion (US $449 million) per year. Following the principle regarding equal distribution of benefits, the stakeholders who received more net benefits than others should return their extra net benefits to other stakeholders through a policy tool such as tradable development rights. The results of our study provide economic indicators useful for the establishment of common resource policy and to consider stakeholders' rights within the framework of regional benefits. This study also provides practical solutions that could be used as a valid policy instrument to mediate the conflicts and disputes associated with water resource use.

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“…For instance, a number of organizations such as the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM), the Canadian Model Forest Network, and forest certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council have established sustainable forest management criteria and indicator frameworks where the full range of socio-economic values is identified. Others have identified the full range of forest values for use in full cost-benefit analysis of policies, natural capital valuation, genuine progress indicators, and green national accounting (McComb et al 2006). More than often, however, many of the socio-economic forest outputs are omitted from the analysis at the evaluation stage owing to a lack of available and reliable value data (Adamowicz and Veeman 1998, CCFM 2003, Bull et al 2007.…”

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“…It turns out that the cause is based on a lack of collection efforts. This lack of effort has arisen from a number of sources that range from limited resources (Turner 2007), to methodological concerns (Adamowicz 2003(Adamowicz , 2004McComb et al 2006;Bull et al 2007), to a simple lack of political will (van Kooten 1995, OECD 2007. The CCFM has stated that, unless increased collection efforts are made at many organizational levels, the lack of forest value data will continue (CCFM 2003).…”

Section: Mots-clésmentioning

confidence: 99%

Valuing multiple forest outputs

Lantz¹

2008

The Forestry Chronicle

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In today's society, there is increasing pressure placed on forests to provide multiple forest outputs. Forestry organizations have responded by promoting identification and valuation of these outputs for trade-off, criteria and indicators, or other analyses. However, in the process of conducting such analyses, many forest outputs are dropped at the evaluation stage owing to a stated lack of available and reliable data. In an effort to help increase our understanding of the value of multiple forest outputs and trade-offs, I have been refining and applying a number of socio-economic measurement tools. In this article, I provide an overview of my (and my students') research activities and contributions to this growing area of research. Key words: non-market valuation, market valuation, forest value trade-offs, criteria and indicators

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International valuation databases: Overview, methods and operational issues

Cited by 50 publications

References 7 publications

The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities

The debt of nations and the distribution of ecological impacts from human activities

Benefit Transfer for Water Management along the Han River in South Korea Using Meta-Regression Analysis

Valuing multiple forest outputs

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