Achieving Sustainable Valuations of Biotopes and Ecosystem Services

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25173154%3A_____%2F18%3AN0000011" target="_blank" >RIV/25173154:_____/18:N0000011 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/44555601:13520/18:43894186

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/11/4251" target="_blank" >http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/11/4251</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114251" target="_blank" >10.3390/su10114251</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Achieving Sustainable Valuations of Biotopes and Ecosystem Services

Original language description

The results of a broader notion of value for measuring ecosystem services (ESs) are presented, as recently demanded by R. Costanza, with attention to the biophysical, thermodynamic aspects of value. The unifying basis in any ecosystem is the solar energy inflow and the growing efficiency of its use with higher stages of self-organized succession processes. The authors utilize two methods of nonmarket valuation (Biotope Valuation Method, Energy-Water-Vegetation Method) which show the range of the environmental values of nature, from how costly it is for nations to restore the quality of a landscape (biotopes as specific habitats for specific species) to their real abilities to replace the core supporting and regulating services of ecosystems (climatizing service, water-retention service, oxygen production, habitats for biodiversity). The role of natural forests and wetlands as the most effective solar energy users is shown and compared with agricultural lands and other human-altered ecosystem groups. A comparison of ESs value ratios with the welfare-method results of Costanza's team shows much higher importance of natural forests as the best climatic and water regulators in sustainable landscape decision-making. The authors show that it is not the replacement-cost method that overestimates, but rather, preferential methods that underestimate the values of ESs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/TD03000093" target="_blank" >TD03000093: Innovated restart of biotope valuation method</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

4251

UT code for WoS article

000451531700425

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85056742198