Economic Value of Cultural Landscape, Non-Production Services of a Territory, and Non-Market Valuation Methods. A Survey Focused on Determining which Landscape Functions are Valuated Most Frequently and which Methods are Used

Ekonomická hodnota kulturní krajiny, neprodukční služby území a netržní metody oceňování. Jaké funkce krajiny se nejčastěji hodnotí a které metody se k tomu používají

Hana Švejdarová and Eva Cudlínová

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2013, vol. 2013, issue 5, 64-81

Abstract: Almost every landscape fulfils various important functions for human society. Nevertheless, planning does not always allocate individual functions the significance that they ought to receive in comparison with others. A typical example is undervaluing landscape services that cannot be expressed in market terms. However, there are means to correct this imbalance. A landscape's non-market services can be expressed using non-market evaluation methods. As a basis for assessing the importance of multi-functional land use, a systematic overview of the various functions of a landscape is presented here. Furthermore, there is a brief description of the non-market evaluation methods that are suitable for evaluating important non-production landscape functions. The core of this work is a search in three flagship periodicals in the field of environmental economics. There is a review of papers applying non-market valuation methods to landscape services, which gives a firmly based picture of the possibilities for evaluating the non-market services of a landscape, the means most commonly used for this evaluation, the intensity of the work that went into developing them, and the increasing importance and prestige of these methods.

Keywords: non-market valuation; landscape services; environmental economics; non-production value; function of an area; value of an ecosystem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q51 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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