Conservación de la naturaleza: una reflexión desde la economía

José Maria Usategui
Additional contact information
José Maria Usategui: Catedrático Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales UPV/EHU

EKONOMIAZ. Revista vasca de Economía, 1990, vol. 17, issue 02, 40-51

Abstract: This article applies some economic principles to reflect on the problem of nature conservancy. After pointing out that nature conservancy is not only a problem of landscape or of the use of land but also corresponds to an environmental option, there is a discussion of the concept of Natural Space and its economic aspects, the set of services envisaged for a conserved Natural Space, the criteria which must guide its use and the difficulties for applying those criteria in practice, and some management problems relating to a protected Natural Space. In order to illustrase the possibilities for assessing the benefits and costs of the different altematives, the article concludes with an example of the application of the travelling costs method to assess the recreational services planned in a conserved Natural Space.

Keywords: Espacio natural; medio ambiente; política medioambiental (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q2 Q26 Q57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ogasun.ejgv.euskadi.eus/r51-k86aekon/es ... publ=13&registro=170 complete text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ekz:ekonoz:1990203

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
Dpto. de Hacienda y Finanzas, Gobierno Vasco, C/Donostia-San Sebastián, 1, 01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in EKONOMIAZ. Revista vasca de Economía from Gobierno Vasco / Eusko Jaurlaritza / Basque Government Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Iñaki Treviño ().