Research effort devoted to regulating and supporting ecosystem services by environmental scientists and economists.

ABSTRACT: The economic valuation of ecosystem services in part reflects the desire to use conventional economic tools (markets and economic instruments) to conserve ecosystem services. However, for regulating and supporting ecosystem services that depend on ecosystem structure and function, estimation of economic value requires estimates of the current level of underlying ecological functions first. This primary step is in principle, the job of environmental scientists, not economists. Here, we provide a coarse-level quantitative assessment of the relationship between the research effort expended by environmental scientists (on the biophysical values) and economists (on the monetary values) on 15 different regulating and supporting services in 32 ecosystem types using peer-reviewed article hits retr

SUBMITTER: Kadykalo AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8162671 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature