caa a22 4500 445855134 CHVBK 20180317145425.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-010-9413-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-010-9413-2 Bringing Ecosystem Services into the Real World: An Operational Framework for Assessing the Economic Consequences of Losing Wild Nature [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew Balmford, Brendan Fisher, Rhys Green, Robin Naidoo, Bernardo Strassburg, R. Kerry Turner, Ana Rodrigues] Policy action to halt the global loss of biodiversity and ecosystems is hindered by the perception that it would be so costly as to compromise economic development, yet this assumption needs testing. Inspired by the recent Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the leaders of the G8+5 nations commissioned a similar assessment of the economics of losing biodiversity, under the Potsdam Initiative on Biodiversity. Here, we propose a conceptual framework for such a global assessment which emphasizes several critical insights from the environmental economics and valuation literature: contrasting counterfactual scenarios which differ solely in whether they include specific conservation policies; identifying non-overlapping benefits; modeling the production, flow, use and value of benefits in a spatially-explicit way; and incorporating the likely costs as well as possible benefits of policy interventions. Tackling these challenges, we argue, will significantly enhance our ability to quantify how the loss of benefits derived from ecosystems and biodiversity compares with the costs incurred in retaining them. We also summarise a review of the current state of knowledge, in order to assess how quickly this framework could be operationalized for some key ecosystem services. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Ecosystem services nationallicence Biodiversity nationallicence Ecosystem modeling nationallicence Benefits nationallicence Millennium ecosystem assessment nationallicence Scenarios nationallicence Conservation nationallicence Development nationallicence Balmford Andrew Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St., CB2 3EJ, Cambridge, UK aut Fisher Brendan Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut Green Rhys Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St., CB2 3EJ, Cambridge, UK aut Naidoo Robin Conservation Science Program, World Wildlife Fund, 1250 24th Street NW, 20037-1124, Washington, DC, USA aut Strassburg Bernardo Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut Kerry Turner R. Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut Rodrigues Ana Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St., CB2 3EJ, Cambridge, UK aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/2(2011-02-01), 161-175 0924-6460 48:2<161 2011 48 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9413-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9413-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Balmford Andrew Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St., CB2 3EJ, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fisher Brendan Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Green Rhys Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St., CB2 3EJ, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Naidoo Robin Conservation Science Program, World Wildlife Fund, 1250 24th Street NW, 20037-1124, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Strassburg Bernardo Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kerry Turner R. Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rodrigues Ana Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St., CB2 3EJ, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 48/2(2011-02-01), 161-175 0924-6460 48:2<161 2011 48 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer