The valuation of river ecosystem services

This dissertation with the title “The Valuation of River Ecosystem Services” consists of three papers. It begins with the retrospect of the historical development of cost-benefit analysis and the non-market valuation techniques (Paper 1 and 2). We highlight that the origin of cost-benefit analysis in America rooted in the water resource management, including navigation, flood control, irrigation and water power, which are deemed ecosystem services of rivers today. This means that cost-benefit analysis has dealt with the valuation of ecosystem services from its very beginning. In the long hi...