Achieving Sustainable Valuations of Biotopes and Ecosystem Services
| Autor: | Josef Seják, Jan Pokorný, Karl Seeley |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural resource economics Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 Biodiversity lcsh:Renewable energy sources Wetland 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law life thermodynamics biotope valuation method 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Ecosystem lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Valuation (finance) lcsh:GE1-350 geography geography.geographical_feature_category Land use Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment energy-water-vegetation method lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants Nonmarket forces lcsh:TD194-195 Sustainability ecosystem services land-use changes economic value |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 11, p 4251 (2018) Sustainability Volume 10 Issue 11 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | The results of a broader notion of value for measuring ecosystem services (ESs) are presented, as recently demanded by R. Costanza, with attention to the biophysical, thermodynamic aspects of value. The unifying basis in any ecosystem is the solar energy inflow and the growing efficiency of its use with higher stages of self-organized succession processes. The authors utilize two methods of nonmarket valuation (Biotope Valuation Method, Energy-Water-Vegetation Method) which show the range of the environmental values of nature, from how costly it is for nations to restore the quality of a landscape (biotopes as specific habitats for specific species) to their real abilities to replace the core supporting and regulating services of ecosystems (climatizing service, water-retention service, oxygen production, habitats for biodiversity). The role of natural forests and wetlands as the most effective solar energy users is shown and compared with agricultural lands and other human-altered ecosystem groups. A comparison of ESs value ratios with the welfare-method results of Costanza&rsquo s team shows much higher importance of natural forests as the best climatic and water regulators in sustainable landscape decision-making. The authors show that it is not the replacement-cost method that overestimates, but rather, preferential methods that underestimate the values of ESs. |
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