Valuing the Recreational Services Provided by Hungary’s Forest Ecosystems

Valuing publicly - provided services

Decisions about expenditure on health, education and other publicly-provided services require choices regarding how much of our collective income we should allocate to these services and which services should be given priority. The attempt to answer this question has stimulated many developments in economic theory and practice, from human capital theory to systems of extended national accounts....

Valuing Novel Ecosystems

Learning to appreciate novel ecosystems will take practice and, as we argue in this chapter, perhaps some new approaches to valuing them. The challenge is not in learning to value novel ecosystems for the first time. After all, as Jackson (Chapter 7) notes, novel ecosystems are nothing new. Significant new ecological assemblies have arisen throughout the past. What is different now is the pace ...

Valuing Ecosystem Services Provided by Lakes: Insights from a Meta-Analysis∗

The values of ecosystem services provided by lakes and reservoirs are examined through a meta-analysis on an expanded worldwide database. The study assesses the socio-economic values attributable to the hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological functions provided by lakes and reservoirs (either natural or artificial). Based on the most extensive global database of non-market and market valuat...

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Ecosystem services provided by waterbirds.

Ecosystem services are ecosystem processes that directly or indirectly benefit human well-being. There has been much recent literature identifying different services and the communities and species that provide them. This is a vital first step towards management and maintenance of these services. In this review, we specifically address the waterbirds, which play key functional roles in many aqu...