Estimating value of the ecosystem services in the urban and peri-urban green of a town Florina-Greece, using the CVM

Kalfas, Dimitrios; Zagkas, D. T.; Dragozi, E. I.; Zagkas, T. D.

doi:10.1080/13504509.2020.1714786

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“…Since the research of Costanza [6] and Daily [7], the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment launched by the UN in 2001 and Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (EEA) (an account of the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA)) released in 2012 divided global ecosystem services into three service systems (provisioning services, regulating services, and cultural services) for valuation with 19 indicators [8]. Most of the following studies focused on indicator design from various perspectives, inspired by this system [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The methods selected by scholars have also been continuously evolving [17][18][19], ranging from subjective and objective evaluation methods, including the WTP method and market value method [3,20], to material conversion-based evaluation methods, including the energy conversion method and equivalent factor method [21,22].…”

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Assessment of Ecosystem Service Value and Its Differences in the Yellow River Basin and Yangtze River Basin

Yang

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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The Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin are the two most important watersheds in China, which consist of several key ecological function areas and are crucial in terms of economic contributions. The evaluation of the ecosystem service value and the quantitative acquisition of the regional ecological quality status are necessary for supporting the ecological protection and high-quality development of the two basins. By considering basic data and adopting different ecological function models, this study was carried out to evaluate the value of ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin from 2015 to 2018 in terms of provisioning services, regulating services, and cultural services. Additionally, analysis was conducted in combination with economic indicators. The results showed that there were great differences in the ecosystem patterns between the Yellow River Basin, where grassland accounted for 45% of land use, and the Yangtze River Basin, where forest accounted for 39% of land use. The values of the ecosystem services of the two basins had similar spatial distributions, with higher values upstream (west) followed by downstream (east) and lower values in the middle (central China). The total annual ecosystem value of the Yangtze River Basin was more than three times that of the Yellow River Basin. In addition, the ecosystem services value of most counties in both basins was higher than their GDP, and there was a positive trend of transforming ecological benefits into economic benefits in the Yangtze River Basin. This research provides a methodology for evaluating ecosystem valuation. The results are helpful for formulating and implementing eco-compensation and payments for ecosystem service policies among different regions in the basins, and the results lay a foundation for the spatial planning and high-quality development paths of key basin areas in China.

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Assessment of Ecosystem Service Value and Its Differences in the Yellow River Basin and Yangtze River Basin

Yang

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…This structure reflects the characteristics of members in German sport clubs (e.g., [15,63]). These sample characteristics are also typical in sport and environmental research [33,64].…”

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“…CVM was originally developed in environmental research where it gained popularity after assessing the monetary value of the natural resource damages resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 [28]. Since then, CVM was applied to examine individuals' WTP for several environmental resources, including marine [29] and national park conservation [30], urban wetlands [31], coastline protection [32], urban green spaces [33], environmental quality improvement [34], and general environmental improvements [35]. Within Europe, Huhtala [36] estimated the WTP for national parks and state-owned recreation areas in Finland using CVM.…”

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Willingness-to-Pay for Environmental Measures in Non-Profit Sport Clubs

Thormann

Wicker

2021

Sustainability

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To reduce global warming and climate change, the German government plans to implement a carbon tax, which will also affect sport organizations. This study investigates how much sport club members are willing to pay for environmental measures and how sport-specific, club-specific, environmental, and socio-demographic factors are associated with their willingness-to-pay. In 2019 and 2020, active adult sport club members in five team/racket sports were sampled using an online survey in Germany (n = 3036). The contingent valuation method was applied to estimate sport club members’ willingness-to-pay for environmental measures. Regression analyses were employed to investigate a set of factors that are associated with club members’ decision to pay at all and the amount of willingness-to-pay. The results show that 64.3% of respondents reported a positive willingness-to-pay. The average willingness-to-pay for environmental measures amounts to EUR 14.53 per year and to EUR 22.59 for those reporting a positive willingness-to-pay. The results of t-tests show that club members stating a positive WTP differ significantly from members who are not willing to pay anything in terms of sport-specific, club-specific, environmental, and socio-demographic factors. The logistic regression results indicate that the likelihood of reporting a positive willingness-to-pay increases with increasing environmental consciousness, educational level, weekly practice hours, identification and satisfaction with the club, and subjective well-being, while age has a U-shaped effect. The results of a Tobit model show that the amount of willingness-to-pay is positively determined by environmental consciousness, educational level, and satisfaction with the club. The findings suggest that the majority of club members are willing to pay higher membership fees for the implementation of environmental measures in sport clubs. Increasing members’ level of environmental consciousness through educational initiatives represents a way for sport policy and sport managers to help increase financial support for environmental measures among club members.

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“…Haase et al (2014) noted that of 217 papers they reviewed, 156 (72%) employed exclusively non-monetary indicators in urban ecosystem service assessments, while 77 (35%) used both monetary and non-monetary methods. In quantifying ecosystem services for green infrastructure, the Travel Cost Method (TCM), contingent valuation (CV) (i.e., willingness-topay), and hedonic pricing approaches have been used (Tapsuwan et al, 2009;Mekala et al, 2015;Lupp et al, 2016;Park et al, 2017;Polyakov et al, 2017;Kalfas et al, 2020), but there is a need to strengthen the empirical evidence of benefits provided by WSUD design and also explore possible differences in valuation characteristics. As such, the objective of our study was to empirically examine the value of WSUD features under the ecosystem services framework using a hedonic pricing approach in two communities, Geelong, Australia and Singapore.…”

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Hedonic Pricing to Monetize Ecosystem Services Provided by Water Sensitive Urban Design: A Comparison of Geelong, Australia and Singapore

Irvine¹,

Choy

Chua

et al. 2020

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Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) features increasingly are used for urban water management, green urban design, and improved community liveability, but relatively less data are available on the ecosystem services that WSUD provides. We used hedonic pricing, supported by qualitative surveys, in Geelong, Australia and Singapore, to evaluate benefits related to large WSUD features. For both locations there was a significant (α=0.05) inverse relationship between sale price of a residence and distance to the WSUD features. Qualitative surveys corroborated the hedonic pricing analysis, as a majority of people appreciated benefits accrued from living near WSUD features.

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Estimating value of the ecosystem services in the urban and peri-urban green of a town Florina-Greece, using the CVM

Cited by 40 publications

References 67 publications

Assessment of Ecosystem Service Value and Its Differences in the Yellow River Basin and Yangtze River Basin

Assessment of Ecosystem Service Value and Its Differences in the Yellow River Basin and Yangtze River Basin

Willingness-to-Pay for Environmental Measures in Non-Profit Sport Clubs

Hedonic Pricing to Monetize Ecosystem Services Provided by Water Sensitive Urban Design: A Comparison of Geelong, Australia and Singapore

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