METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR QUANTIFYING THE VALUE OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Giani Gradinaru
Additional contact information
Giani Gradinaru: Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

Romanian Statistical Review, 2013, vol. 61, issue 5, 29-44

Abstract: To quantify ecosystem services several methods have been developed, that succeed to address almost the entire range of ecosystems’ benefits for human. Using these methods has gained popularity in both developed and developing countries. However, most of studies focus on the U.S., UK and Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, and Finland). In addition, the economic approach to global ecosystem services is poor, the assessment proposed by Costanza et al. (1997), despite the many criticisms of methodological rigor, is still the most important point of reference. For Romania, the assessment of ecosystem services is at the beginning, but we can speak about a growing interest to conduct such studies.

Keywords: statistical tools; Ecosystem services; quantification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.revistadestatistica.ro/Articole/2013/RRS_05_2013_a2_en.pdf (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:rsr:journl:v:61:y:2013:i:5:p:29-44

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Romanian Statistical Review from Romanian Statistical Review Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Adrian Visoiu ().