The Value of Wetland Ecosystem Services in Europe: An Application of GIS and Meta-Analysis for Value Transfer

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Kuik, O., Brander, L., Ghermandi, A., Markandya, A., Navrud, S., Nunes, P., Schaafsma, M., Vos, H. and Wagtendonk, A., 2009. The Value of Wetland Ecosystem Services in Europe: An Application of GIS and Meta-Analysis for Value Transfer. In: 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), 2009-06-24 - 2009-06-27, Amsterdam.

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Abstract

This paper proposes a methodology for scaling up ecosystem service values and illustrates the procedure with a transfer of wetland values to a European scale. The proposed methodology makes use of meta-analysis to produce a value function. The parameters of the value function include spatial variables on wetland location, size, type, abundance, GDP per capita, and population density. A GIS is used to construct a database of European wetland sites with information on these spatial variables. Site-specific values are estimated using the meta-analytic value function. The proposed method is shown to be practicable and to produce reasonably reliable value estimates.

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