Payments for Ecosystem Services: how to value ecosystems fairly
- 2022
- Payments for Ecosystem Services: how to value ecosystems fairly
- Responsible Management
- Global
- 2022
Ecosystem Services have great value for both the environment and human beings. However, very often this value is not reflected economically, making it difficult to implement incentives and funding schemes for the promotion of Ecosystem Services.
Read MoreEcosystem Services (ES) are the benefits offered by nature to humans. In economic terms, many of them are presented as externalities, i.e. as effects of an activity that have a positive or negative impact on subjects who have not had a decision-making role with respect to it. While they have a recognised value,