• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Scaling up ecosystem services values: methodology, applicability and a case study
  • Contributor: Brander, Luke M. [Author]; Ghermandi, Andrea [Author]; Kuik, Onno [Author]; Markandya, Anil [Author]; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. [Author]; Schaafsma, Marije [Author]; Wagtendonk, Alfred [Author]
  • Published: Milano: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), 2010
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Q24 ; Meta-Analysis ; C81 ; Ecosystem Services ; Value Transfer ; Wetland Values ; Q57
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access