Eco System Capital Presentation

7/21/2019 Eco System Capital Presentation

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%: &co-#ystem #ervices'enets people o!tain from eco-

systems

&amples

• rovisionary services: e.g. food and *ater

•

+egulating services: regulation of oods,draughts, diseases

• #upporting services: soil formation, nutrientcycling

•ultural services: recreation and spiritual



%: &co-#ystem #ervices

#upply #ide emand #ide

/ncrease aspopulation andstandard ofliving increase

degradation inregard toprovidingservice



': &cosystem #ervices !ecomescarce

+eason: lac$ of valuation hallenge: ac$no*ledgement of this value



: hat is ecosystem servicesevaluation

1. %nthropogenic concept

2. "he *ell!eing of humanity and the *ell!eing

of earth are interdependent. &cosystem services have an economic value

'3" this is not the only focus for &#V

4. 5ature is vital for many reasons to humansurvival and *ell!eing



: hat is ecosystem servicesevaluation

1. &cosystems have intrinsic and utilitarianvalue

&amples:2. &6cient allocation



/mportant goals for themanagement of ecosystem

services.1. %ssessing and ensuring that the scale or

magnitude of human activities aresustaina!le

2. istri!uting resources and property rightsfairly.

. &6ciently allocating the resourcesconstrained and dened !y 1 7 2 a!ove inorder to maimi8e utility.



Valuation of eco system services must !eperformed

9rom multiple perspectives

3sing multiple methods

%gainst multiple goals



9rame*or$ for &#V

&co-system structures and processes areinuenced !y !iophysical drivers



ethodology for &V# +evealed preference approaches

1. ar$et methods

2. "ravel cost

. ;edonic methods

4. roduction approaches #tate preference approaches

1. ontingent valuation

2. on<oint analysis

ost-!ased approaches

1. +eplacement cost

2. %voidance cost



;istory of &#V research 1=>0?s: ommon challenges !ut separate ans*ers

1=@0?s: 'rea$ing the disciplinary !oundaries - Aeorgescu

+oger

1=B0?s oving !eyond multi-disciplinary &#V research

%ttempt to !uild a common language for ecologicaland economic systems



;istory of &#V research

1==0?s to present oving to*ards trans-disciplinary &#V

research1. on<oint analysis

2. eta analysis

. Aroup valuation

4. ultiple criterion decision analysis



&#V in ractice

&#V in natural resource damage assessments

&#V in cost-!enet analysis C cost-eDectivenessanalysis frame*or$

&#V in natural capital accounting

&#V in payment for ecosystem services



e!ate on the use of &#V

1. omparisons of natural capital to physical andhuman capital in regard to their contri!ution tohuman *elfare

2. onitor the Euantity and Euality of naturalcapital over time in regard to its contri!ution tohuman *elfare

. rovide for evaluation of pro<ects that enhance

or degrade natural capital

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