This paper investigates the role of the production function approach in capturing the value of hydrological services of wetland ecosystems. Hydrological research in the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands in northern Nigeria suggests that the major role of the wet season inundation of the wetlands is in recharging the underlying aquifers. This paper shows that the hydrological services extend beyond direct ...

The ecosystem service concept is becoming more and more acknowledged in science and decision-making. Taking an economic valuation approach, we quantified the economic value change of ecosystem services for different land use types in the middle basin of Heihe River, Northwest China. Eight ecosystem services indicators were selected: raw materials production, crop production, gas regulation, hyd...

For decades, the Earth Science (ES) community has launched missions to monitor vital phenomena of our planet and, through measurements, obtain data for improving their models. Indeed the proper characterisation of phenomena, such as desertification, Arctic sea ice melting, volcanic activities or earthquakes effects, requires the analysis of data acquired in a long period and the validation of c...

this paper is concerned with the economic valuation of the coral reef within kish island in persian gulf of iran. for calculating this value, all components of use and non-use values are estimated and then according to each of them, suitable method has applied. many different evaluation tools such as contingent valuation method, zonal travel cost method, replacement cost, avoided cost method, ...