The economics of valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity

Unai Pascual; Roldan Muradian; Luke Brander; Erik Gómez-Baggethun; Berta Martín-López; Madhu Verma; Paul Armsworth; Michael Christie; Hans Cornelissen; Florian Eppink; Joshua Farley; John Loomis; Leonie Pearson; Charles Perrings; Stephen Polasky; Jeffrey A. McNeely; Richard Norgaard; Rehana Siddiqui; R. David Simpson; R. Kerry Turner; R. David Simpson

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The economics of valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity

Unai Pascual, Roldan Muradian, Luke Brander, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Berta Martín-López, Madhu Verma, Paul Armsworth, Michael Christie, Hans Cornelissen, Florian Eppink, Joshua Farley, John Loomis, Leonie Pearson, Charles Perrings, Stephen Polasky, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Richard Norgaard, Rehana Siddiqui, R. David Simpson, R. Kerry TurnerR. David Simpson

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Economics, as the study of how to allocate limited resources, relies on valuation to provide society with information about the relative level of resource scarcity. The value of ecosystem services and biodiversity is a reflection of what we, as a society, are willing to trade off to conserve these natural resources. Economic valuation of ecosystem services and biodiversity can make explicit to society in general and policy making in particular, that biodiversity and ecosystem services are scarce and that their depreciation or degradation has associated costs to society. If these costs are not imputed, then policy would be misguided and society would be worse off due to misallocation of resources.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Subtitle of host publication	Ecological and Economic Foundations
Place of Publication	United Kingdom
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Chapter	5
Pages	183-256
Number of pages	74
ISBN (Print)	9781849775489
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849775489
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Pascual, U., Muradian, R., Brander, L., Gómez-Baggethun, E., Martín-López, B., Verma, M., Armsworth, P., Christie, M., Cornelissen, H., Eppink, F., Farley, J., Loomis, J., Pearson, L., Perrings, C., Polasky, S., McNeely, J. A., Norgaard, R., Siddiqui, R., David Simpson, R., ... Simpson, R. D. (2012). The economics of valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity. In The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations (pp. 183-256). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849775489

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