Integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services in an Ecosystem Satellite Account: A Case Study in the Gulf of Saint-Malo (France)

Jean-Christophe Martin, Rémi Mongruel and Harold Levrel

Ecological Economics, 2018, vol. 143, issue C, 141-152

Abstract: This paper develops an accounting approach for estimating cultural ecosystem services. Ecosystem satellite accounts should be able to include cultural ecosystem services, which raise numerous assessment difficulties. A new assessment method is proposed, which uses the production for own use of households who carry out recreational activities depending on cultural ecosystem services. An application is carried out in the Gulf of Saint-Malo (France). A survey was implemented in order to collect the accounting data. Six recreational activities mixing the consumption of pure leisure (mainly sport) and marine cultural ecosystem services (mainly fishing and seascape watching) were considered: onshore fishing and shellfish gathering; hiking; recreational boating and offshore fishing; canoeing and kayaking; light sailing; scuba-diving and underwater fishing.

Keywords: Ecosystem satellite account; Household production function; Cultural ecosystem services; Recreational activities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.07.005

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