Regulating Ecosystem Services: Enhancements Through Sustainable Management

Sinha, Karishma; Baten, Mohammed Abdul

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_32-1

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“…Forests are vital for providing us with a wide range of regulating, provisioning, and cultural ecosystem services (Ota et al 2021;Saha 2021;Landell-Mills and Porras 2002). Regulating and provisioning ecosystem services mainly represents material bene ts from the forest, such as biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, climate regulation, water retention, nutrient cycling (Sinha and Baten 2021;Mukul et al 2017a). Cultural ecosystem services, on the other hand, represent non-material bene ts, like recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, physical and mental health bene ts that we derive from forests (Nadiruzzaman and Rahman 2021), and are still underrepresented in literature due to the complexity of their nature (Ezebilo 2016).…”

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Visitor’s willingness to pay for cultural ecosystem services in Bangladesh: an assessment for Lawachara National Park, a biodiversity hotspot

Saha

Mukul

2021

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The valuation of natural ecosystems helps policymakers in allocate adequate resources for the provision of ecosystem services they provide. Cultural ecosystem services are the non-material benefits we obtain from nature, which include but are not limited to recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, physical and mental health benefits. They are essential for a proper sense of a place, human health, and wellbeing. We quantified the recreational and other non-material benefits of Lawachara National Park (LNP), one of the oldest and most diverse forest protected area and touristic attractions in northeast Bangladesh. A Modified Travel Cost Method (MTCM) was applied for quantifying the recreational and other non-material values of LNP. Altogether 309 respondents were interviewed, covering both peak season and slack season. In our MTCM, we considered several additional factors, unlike the commonly used Travel Cost Method (TCM). The value of cultural ecosystem services of LNP was estimated to be Taka 1 476.70 million and Taka 476.44 million per annum using MTCM and TCM, respectively. The value estimated using MTCM was marginally higher than the value estimated using TCM and was due to the additional variables we considered in our modified approach. We believe our estimates using MTCM will guide policymakers to properly value natural ecosystems and facilitate adequate resource allocation for ecotourism in LNP and elsewhere.

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