The history of ecosystem services in economic theory and practice: From early notions to markets and payment schemes
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...…and their services, including the causal mechanisms in the service-producing ecological systems and the contributions by human action to make potential services actual and in the appropriate spatial and temporal scales (Boumans et al., 2002; Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010; Braat et al., 2014)....
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...This so-called total system approach implies estimating the value of ecosystems and their services, including the causal mechanisms in the service-producing ecological systems and the contributions by human action to make potential services actual and in the appropriate spatial and temporal scales (Boumans et al., 2002; Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010; Braat et al., 2014)....
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...Gómez-Baggethun et al. (2010) provide a more detailed history of the ecosystems services concept, focusing on its economic roots....
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...In the view of the authors this response to the problem is in most cases misleading (see e.g. Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010b; Gómez-Baggethun and Ruiz-Pérez, 2011)....
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...In some cases academics have developed methods to quantify some cultural values such as sense of place (Williams andRoggenbuck, 1989; Shamai, 1991) and traditional ecological knowledge (Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010a) making use of scores and constructed scales....
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...The origins of the modern history of ecosystem services are to be found in the late 1970s (see for an extensive historical analysis: Gómez-Baggethun et al., 2010)....
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...Gómez-Baggethun et al. (2010) trace the treatment of nature’s benefits throughout economic history from the classical economics period to the consolidation of neoclassical economics and economic sub-disciplines specialized in environmental issues....
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...In his Tragedy of the commons, Hardin (1968) warned that resource regimes lacking welldefined property rights were vulnerable to overexploitation....
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...…2000s Appropriation Ecosystem services as appropriable Clear definition of ecosystem property rights (e.g. land titling) Exchange value Coase, 1960 Hardin, 1968 Exchange Ecosystem services as exchangeable Institutional structures created for sale/exchange (PES and MES) Exchange value Wunder,…...
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...In Solow's contribution to the theory of economic growth (Solow, 1956), land had been removed from the production function under the implicit assumption that nature's input could be substituted by manufactured capital....
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..., 1992; Daily, 1997), and with increased interest on methods to estimate their economic value (Costanza et al., 1997)....
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...It then continues in the 1990s with the mainstreaming of ecosystem services in the literature (Costanza and Daly, 1992; Perrings et al., 1992; Daily, 1997), and with increased interest on methods to estimate their economic value (Costanza et al., 1997)....
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...…the 1990s Monetization Ecosystem services as valuable/ monetizable Refinement of methods to value ecosystem services in monetary terms Exchange value Costanza et al., 1997 Stern, 2006 EC, 2007 Starting in 1970s, boosts in the 2000s Appropriation Ecosystem services as appropriable Clear definition…...
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...Hence, the systematic undervaluation of the ecological dimension in decisionmakingwould be partly explainedby the fact that the services provided by natural capital are not adequately quantified in terms comparable with economic services and manufactured capital (Costanza et al., 1997)....
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...The paper by Costanza et al. (1997) on the value of the 6 Isolated contributions had noticed the many ways nature's functions benefit humans several decades earlier....
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