The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services … aims to highlight the mapping of biodiversity indicators and assesses their respective role on the valuation exercise. Our … results show that biodiversity loss is having an effect on forest ecosystem values. In addition, these effects reveal to be …

Biodiversity is an important environmental public good. However, the literature suggests that it is not clear how its … biodiversity value from the ecological and economic literatures and combines them to a comprehensive and consistent framework. It … is argued that biodiversity is the main carrier of insurance value, option value and spill-over value, and also …

We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory … values between study and policy contexts, or to up-scale values from study sites to the national scale. Our theory provides …

changes in existence. Moreover, when applied to biodiversity, the concept of existence value gives rise to an instance of a … biodiversity cannot have existence value; yet the results of empirical studies suggest that people in stated preference studies can …

valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows … States. This comprehensive appraisal of the problems and economics of biodiversity conservation will be welcomed by …