Author(s): Laurans Y, Rankovic A, Billé R, Pirard R, Mermet L
Ecosystem Services economic Valuation (ESV) is often seen as a tool that can potentially enhance our collective choices regarding ecosystem services as it factors in the costs and benefits of their degradation. Yet, to achieve this, the social processes leading to decisions need to use ESV effectively. This makes it necessary to understand if and how ESV is or is not used by decision-makers. However, there appears to be a literature blindspot as to the issue of the Use of Ecosystem Services economic Valuation (UESV). This paper proposes a systematic review on UESV in peer-reviewed scientific literature. It shows that this literature gives little attention to this issue and rarely reports cases where ESV has been put to actual use, even though such use is frequently referred to as founding the goal and justification of ESV. The review identifies three categories of potential UESV: decisive, technical and informative, which are usually mentioned as prospects for the valuations published. Two sets of hypotheses are examined to explain this result: either the use of ESV is a common practice, but is absent from the literature reviewed here; or the use of ESV is effectively rare. These hypotheses are discussed and open up further avenues of research which should make the actual use of ESV their core concern.
Author(s): Raudsepp-Hearne C, Peterson GD, Bennett EM
Author(s): Tu G, Abildtrup J, Garcia S
Author(s): Bolund P, Hunhammar S
Author(s): Elmqvist T, Setälä H, Handel SN, Van Der Ploeg S, Aronson J, et al.
Author(s): Brander LM, Koetse MJ
Author(s): Chiesura A
Author(s): Lupp G, Förster B, Kantelberg V, Markmann T, Naumann J, et al.
Author(s): Endreny T, Santagata R, Perna A, De Stefano C, Rallo RF, et al.
Author(s): Tyrväinen L, Silvennoinen H, Kolehmainen O
Author(s): Sanesi G, Colangelo G, Lafortezza R, Calvo E, Davies C
Author(s): Aasetre J, Gundersen V, Vistad OI, Holtrop EJ
Author(s): Horne P, Boxall PC, Adamowicz WL
Author(s): Pouwels R, Sierdsema H, Henkens RJHG, van Eupen M
Author(s): Balfors B, Mörtberg U, Gontier M, Brokking P
Author(s): Cole DN, Landres PB
Author(s): Sikorska D, Sikorski P, Hopkins RJ
Author(s): Puhakka R
Author(s): Christie M, Hanley N, Hynes S
Author(s): Juutinen A, Mitani Y, Mäntymaa E, Shoji Y, Siikamäki P, et al.
Author(s): Martinez-Alier J
Author(s): Parsons GR
Author(s): Shrestha RK, Seidl AF, Moraes, AS
Author(s): Hanley N, Wright RE, Adamowicz V
Author(s): Carson RT, Czajkowski M
Author(s): Bennett J, Blamey R
Author(s): Gnoumou A, Thiomboano A, Hahn-Hadjali K, Abadouabou B, Sarr M, et al.
Author(s): Louviere JJ, Street D, Burgess L, Wasi N, Islam T, et al.
Author(s): Bartkowski B, Lienhoop N, Hansjürgens B
Author(s): Christie M, Hanley N, Warren J, Murphy K, Wright R, et al.
Author(s): Pearce DW
Author(s): Birol E, Hanley N, Koundouri P, Kountouris Y
Author(s): Carlsson F, Frykblom P, Liljenstolpe C
Author(s): Jacobsen JB, Boiesen JH, Thorsen BJ, Strange N
Author(s): Chape S, Spalding M, Jenkins M
Author(s): Pickering CM, Hill W
Author(s): Morey ER
Author(s): Hanley N, Alvarez-Farizo B, Shaw WD
Author(s): Lancaster KJ
Author(s): Adamowicz W, Boxall P, Williams M, Louviere J
Author(s): Thurstone LL
Author(s): Baltas G, Doyle P
Author(s): Bonnieux F, Carpentier A
Author(s): Allenby GM, Rossi PE
Author(s): McFadden D, Train K
Author(s): Bech M, Gyrd-Hansen D
Author(s): Deng J, King B, Bauer T
Author(s): Le THT, Lee DK, Kim YS, Lee Y
Author(s): Cetin M, Sevik H
Author(s): Clawson M, Knetsch JL
Author(s): Jin Q, Hu H, Kavan P
Author(s): Lanz B, Dietz S, Swanson T
Author(s): Alvey AA