The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
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...Based on a synthesis-study by Costanza et al. (1997), using over 100 literature studies, Table 2 gives an overview of the link between these valuation methods and the 23 functions described in this paper....
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...1) Dollar values are based on Costanza et al., (1997) and apply to different ecosystems (eg....
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...Use of nature for scientific researchvalue Adapted from Costanza et al. (1997), De Groot (1992), De Groot et al. (2000). tributed to a certain ecosystem type are excluded, e.g. wind and solar-energy....
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...Based on a synthesis study by Costanza et al. (1997), using over 100 literature studies, Table 2 gives an overview of the link between these valuation methods and the 23 functions described in this paper....
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...Aesthetic information can have considerable economic importance, for example, through the influence on real estate prices: houses near national parks or with a nice ocean view are usually much more expensive than similar houses in less favored areas (Costanza et al., 1997)....
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...Column A uses the original values from Costanza et al. (1997) converted to 2007 dollars (total = $45.9 trillion/yr)....
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...Ecosystem services are defined as the benefits people derive from ecosystems – the support of sustainable human well-being that ecosystems provide (Costanza et al., 1997; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), 2005)....
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...Below, we provide a comparison of the de Groot et al. (2012) results with the Costanza et al. (1997) results in order to estimate the changes in the flow of ecosystem services over this time period....
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...After some consolidation of the typologies used in the two studies we can compare the de Groot et al. (2012) estimates per service and per biome with the Costanza et al. (1997) estimates in Table 3, and in more detail in Supporting Material, Table S1....
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...For example, Costanza et al. (1997) was clearly an awareness raising exercise with no specific policy or decision in mind....
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