Scaling up Ecosystem Services Values: Methodology, Applicability and a Case Study

Luke Brander, Andrea Ghermandi, Onno Kuik, Anil Markandya, Paulo Nunes (), Marije Schaafsma and Alfred Wagtendonk
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Luke Brander: Institute for Environmental Studies
Andrea Ghermandi: FEEM
Marije Schaafsma: Institute for Environmental Studies
Alfred Wagtendonk: Institute for Environmental Studies

No 2010.41, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical setting, for instance to the regional, national or global scale. This paper proposes a methodology for scaling up ecosystem service values to a European level, assesses the availability of data for conducting this method, and illustrates the procedure with a case study on wetland values. The proposed methodology makes use of meta-analysis to produce a value function that is subsequently applied to individual European wetland sites. Site-specific, study-specific and context-specific variables are used to define a price vector that captures differences between sites and over time. The proposed method is shown to be practicable and to produce reasonably reliable aggregate value estimates.

Keywords: Ecosystem Services; Value Transfer; Meta-Analysis; Wetland Values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 Q24 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04
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