There are now a large number of valuation studies on the benefits of biodiversity and on ecosystem services, the … from most habitats, by type of ecosystem service, usually expressed in USD per hectare per year. Coverage varies by habitat … for a number of ecosystem services a result of the introduction of a new policy or of a physical investment that modifies …

, 40% of its forests and 35% of its mangroves. Around 60% of global ecosystem services have been degraded in just 50 years … has been done in analysing the causality in the other direction – i.e. in assessing the linkages from changes in ecosystem … paths. This report contributes to that goal by looking at the consequences of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem …

The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at … paper proposes a methodology for scaling up ecosystem service values to a European level, assesses the availability of data … estimates. -- Ecosystem Services ; Value Transfer ; Meta-Analysis ; Wetland Values …

conservation. Key to this is knowing the economic value of the ecosystem. “Mainstreaming the value of natural capital into policy …