Authors:
UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Publication Date:
2007
Abstract/Summary:
This Introductory Guide looks at how the framework for the valuation of the natural environment could be improved by offering a comprehensive and systematic means to ensuring that ecosystems and the services they provide are taken into account in policy appraisal. It builds on traditional valuation approaches by explicitly considering the environment as a whole – bringing together land, water, air, soil and biodiversity – and recognising that their linkages provide a wide variety of services and benefits that are not specific to any one part. The approach stresses that changing any one part of our environment can have consequences, both positive and negative, and often unintended for the ecosystem as a whole.
Resource Type:
Technical Document
Source:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Link:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/economics/pdf/valuing_ecosystems.pdf