Valuation of an Amazonian rainforest

Peters, Charles M.; Gentry, Alwyn H.; Mendelsohn, Robert

doi:10.1038/339655a0

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“…Since the 1990s, numerous researches have been conducted to investigate the value of ecosystem services (VES). These assessments cover biological resources (Pearce and Moran, 1994;Zhao et al, 2004), biodiversity conversion (Mcneely, 1993), tropical forests (Peters et al, 1989;Tobias and Mendelsohn, 1991), protected areas (Munasinghe, 1994), and endangered species' management (White et al, 1997). A notable assessment of VES by Costanza et al (1997) reported on the global biosphere, estimating 17 VES provided by 16 dominant global biomes by using a market valuation method.…”

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Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

Song

Deng

Yuan

et al. 2015

Ecological Modelling

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a b s t r a c tLand-use change is a major factor driving ecosystem service change. Measuring the ecosystem service variation in response to land-use change is an effective way to assess the environmental costs and benefits of different approaches to policy-based planning. In the present study, we examined the changes in value of the ecosystem services (VES) in the North China Plain (NCP), which is an agricultural region, producing over 35% of the total grain in China, and estimated the changes of VES resulting from land-use change. A model mainly based on net primary productivity (NPP) and soil erosion amount was developed to assess the VES. The results show that the total VES of the NCP increased by $ 21.61 billion in 2000 USD during [2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. However, the land-use change led to a net loss of VES by 0.08 billion USD. The expansion of built-up areas contributed to 84.61% of the loss of VES caused by land-use change. The increase of NPP mainly accounted for the increase of VES since it significantly improved the ecosystem service functions of gas regulation, nutrient cycling, and organic material provision. Overall, compared to other factors, land-use change only accounted for 0.35% of VES change during 2000-2008 in NCP.

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Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

Song

Deng

Yuan

et al. 2015

Ecological Modelling

171

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“…Most commonly, however, researchers begin their inquiry by estimating the value of a much more limited area, often one or more clearly defined forest plots. The most widely cited study in this genre is the valuation of a one-hectare plot of rainforest in Peruvian Amazonia by Peters et al (1989). They designed the study to inventory the plant species in the plot, measure NTFP production and determine their current market value.…”

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Commercialisation of non-timber forest products: review and analysis of research

Neumann¹,

Hirsch²

2000

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“…Since then, TCM has been further developed and become widely accepted in resource economics to estimate recreational values. Taking the forestry ecosystem for example, some studies focus on some service function and landscape value, such as the evaluation of non-timber forest products in the tropical rain forest (Peters et al, 1989), or of ecotourism value in the tropical rain forest (Tobias and Mendelsohn, 1991;Maille and Mendelsohn, 1993), etc. As to water resources, by using TCM, Ward (1987) estimates the value of water entertainment including fishing and rafting at $17/km 2 -$25/km 2 on the River Chama in Mexico.…”

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The Recreational Value of Bama in China: One of the Five World’s Longevity Townships

Liu¹,

Nie²,

Liao³

2012

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The recreational value of Bama Area in China is estimated to be 2.73 hundred millions dollars in 2009 via a revisionary travel cost method (TCM) in this paper. To make the estimation more applicable to the case of Bama, one of the five top longevity townships in the world, this paper adopts a new partition method and revises two calculation principles. Firstly, the conventional zonal travel cost method is amended to divide tourists by their travel cost instead of geographical or administrative zones. Secondly, the cost of tourists for different duration in Bama is calculated respectively. For short-term tourists, travel cost is estimated with the opportunity cost coefficient 1/3. The opportunity cost of the long-term tourists is replaced by their daily board and lodging cost in Bama. Thirdly, the total recreational value only covers special visits to Bama but excludes multi-destination visits. With the three modifications, it is plausible that the recreational value of Bama estimated in this paper reflects more objectively the resource characteristics and real value of the site.

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Valuation of an Amazonian rainforest

Cited by 640 publications

References 2 publications

Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

Impacts of land-use change on valued ecosystem service in rapidly urbanized North China Plain

Commercialisation of non-timber forest products: review and analysis of research

The Recreational Value of Bama in China: One of the Five World’s Longevity Townships

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