Ecosystem services value: a literature review

Bartolomeo Toffano () and M. Bruna Zolin ()
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Bartolomeo Toffano: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
M. Bruna Zolin: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

No 2021:07, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"

Abstract: The paper aims to analyse the literature on ecosystem services and on payments for ecological services focusing on the pollination case study by highlighting the economic approaches most used in the evaluation of tangible and intangible environmental services. Agriculture guarantees food security and, to some extent, energy security, often at the expense of other ecosystem services. Remedying the negative consequences of intensive agriculture requires the identification of products and services deriving from eco-sustainable land management and their financial value (the so-called Payments for ecological systems). The literature agrees in recognizing a value to ecological services produced by sustainable agricultural management systems; however, different methods are applied.

Keywords: Ecosystem services; payments; agriculture; pollinators; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 Q24 Q57 Q58 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2021
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