The BIOFUND Virtual Library is an online archive of information on Mozambique’s biodiversity, organized along the lines suggested by the Convention on Biodiversity’s Clearing House Mechanism. The Virtual Library will strive to make available all the documents, studies, reports, articles, educational and communications materials, maps and digital files that have been produced, to serve as a repository of our collective institutional memory as a conservation community. The usefulness of the Virtual Library will improve the more we share amongst ourselves. If you have any materials that are not currently part of the Virtual Library, please click on "Add Document" and become a contributor.
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Acesso à informação sobre Indústria Extractiva em Moçambique
Selemane, T.
Sd
N/A
Uma pesquisa sobre como as diferentes partes interessadas e os cidadãos em geral têm sido informados sobre assuntos relativos à indústria extractiva em Moçambique
este relatório analisa como as diferentes partes interessadas na indústria extractiva em Moçambique e os cidadãos em geral têm sido informados sobre assuntos dessa indústria. O relatório mapeia as partes interessadas, identifica os aspectos centrais do acesso à informação, nomeia as principais fontes de informação existentes bem como apresenta as implicações resultantes da assimetria de informação na indústria extractiva.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Acesso à informação sobre Indústria Extractiva em Moçambique
A Boom for Whom? Mozambique’s Natural Gas and the New Development Opportunity
Gqada, I.
2013
N/A
SAIIA
This paper investigates the likely impact on Mozambique’s socio-economic development of discoveries of natural gas deposits, and of industrial development in the natural gas sector. It analyses the likely uses of the ‘gas boom’ by government in contributing to the improvement of the economic situation of Mozambicans. The discussion is set within the context of Mozambique’s political and economic development since gaining independence in 1975.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
A Boom for Whom? Mozambique’s Natural Gas and the New Development Opportunity
Avanços e estagnações da transparência na indústria extractiva em Moçambique
Nombora, D.
Sd
N/A
Centro de Integridade Pública
Moçambique foi admitido como país candidato à Iniciativa de Transparência na Indústria Extractiva (ITIE) em Maio de 2009. A adesão de Moçambique à ITIE constitui um dos passos positivos com vista a assegurar uma maior transparência e prestação de contas no sector extractivo, através da publicação integral e sistemática dos pagamentos realizados pelas empresas e das receitas públicas do petróleo, gás e mineração.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Presentations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Avanços e estagnações da transparência na indústria extractiva em Moçambique
Advances and stagnation of transparency in the extractive industry in Mozambique
Nombora, D.
Sd
N/A
Centro de Integridade Pública
Mozambique was admitted as a candidate country to the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) in May 2009. The accession of Mozambique to EITI is one of the positive steps towards ensuring greater transparency and accountability in the extractive sector, through the full and systematic publication of payments made by the companies and of public revenue from petroleum, gas and mining.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
General Information
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Advances and stagnation of transparency in the extractive industry in Mozambique
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 3 – SUMÁRIO EXECUTIVO
MITADER
2016
Zambézia
MITADER
A elaboração do Plano Especial do Ordenamento Territorial (PEOT) do Vale do Zambeze visa a criação de um instrumento global que articule a situação existente e as perspectivas de desenvolvimento com um ordenamento e planeamento eficazes. Tratando-se de uma extensa área, que abrange uma vasta área do território nacional de Moçambique, com grande potencial para o aproveitamento de recursos naturais e incremento de infra-estruturas, torna-se urgente e necessário a criação de um instrumento de planeamento que permita a salvaguarda das várias dimensões do interesse público que lhe está subjacente, compatibilizando os vários interesses em presença.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 3 – SUMÁRIO EXECUTIVO
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 2 – SUMÁRIO EXECUTIVO
MITADER
2014
Zambézia
MITADER
A elaboração do Plano Especial do Ordenamento do Território (PEOT) do Vale do Zambeze visa a criação de um instrumento global que articule a situação existente e as perspectivas de desenvolvimento com um ordenamento e planeamento eficazes. Tratando-se de uma extensa área do território, que abrange uma vasta área do território nacional de Moçambique, com grande potencial para o aproveitamento de recursos naturais e incremento de infra-estruturas, torna-se urgente e necessário a criação de um instrumento de planeamento que permita a salvaguarda das várias dimensões do interesse público que lhe está subjacente, compatibilizando os vários interesses em presença.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 2 – SUMÁRIO EXECUTIVO
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 3 – RELATÓRIO DA AGENDA MULTISSECTORIAL
MITADER
2015
Zambézia
MITADER
O presente relatório constitui a Fase 3 da elaboração do Plano Multissectorial (PM), integrado na Prestação de Serviços de elaboração de “Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões", adjudicada pela Agência de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Zambeze (ADVZ) ao Consórcio TPF.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 3 – RELATÓRIO DA AGENDA MULTISSECTORIAL
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 1 – RELATÓRIO DE CARACTERIZAÇÃO TERRITORIAL E DIAGNÓSTICO
MITADER
2014
Zambézia
MITADER
O presente relatório constitui a Fase 1 da elaboração do Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze (PEOT), integrado na Prestação de Serviços de elaboração de “Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões", adjudicada pela Agência de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Zambeze (ADVZ) ao Consórcio TPF.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 1 – RELATÓRIO DE CARACTERIZAÇÃO TERRITORIAL E DIAGNÓSTICO
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 2 – DEFINIÇÃO DE CENÁRIOS. CENÁRIOS SECTORIAIS ALTERNATIVOS E CONSISTÊNCIA CENÁRIO MULTISECTORIAL COMUM
MITADER
2014
Zambézia
MITADER
O presente relatório constitui a Fase 2 da elaboração do Plano Multissectorial (PM), integrado na Prestação de Serviços de elaboração de “Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões", adjudicada pela Agência de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Zambeze (ADVZ) ao Consórcio TPF.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 2 – DEFINIÇÃO DE CENÁRIOS. CENÁRIOS SECTORIAIS ALTERNATIVOS E CONSISTÊNCIA CENÁRIO MULTISECTORIAL COMUM
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 3 – RELATÓRIO DA PROPOSTA DO PLANO E NORMAS ORIENTADORAS PARA O PEOT
MITADER
2015
Zambézia
MITADER
O presente relatório constitui a Fase 3 da elaboração do Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze (PEOT), integrado na Prestação de Serviços de elaboração de “Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões", adjudicada pela Agência de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Zambeze (ADVZ) ao Consórcio TPF.~ Esta fase segue e decorre da aprovação das fases anteriores, que visaram a produção e consualização de uma visão a 30 anos para o Vale do Zambeze, bem como a definição dos modelos territoriais actuais e proposto para a mesma área.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
Avaliação Ambiental Estratégica, Plano Multissectorial, Plano Especial de Ordenamento Territorial do Vale do Zambeze e Modelo Digital de Suporte a Decisões: FASE 3 – RELATÓRIO DA PROPOSTA DO PLANO E NORMAS ORIENTADORAS PARA O PEOT
The Seagrass Fishery of Quirimba Island, an interim report: Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago, Mozambique. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 5
Gell, F.
2004
Cabo Delgado
Society for Environmental Exploration, UK and The Ministry for the co-ordination of Environmental Affairs, Maputo.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
Quirimbas National Park
The Seagrass Fishery of Quirimba Island, an interim report: Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago, Mozambique. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 5
Southern Islands Group – Mefunvo, Quisiva and Quipaco Islands. Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 4
Heasman, M. Et al.
1998
Cabo Delgado
Society for Environmental Exploration, London and Ministry for the Co-ordination of Environmental Affairs, Maputo
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
Quirimbas National Park
Southern Islands Group – Mefunvo, Quisiva and Quipaco Islands. Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 4
Central Islands Group – Ibo, Quirimba, Sencar and Quilaluia Islands. Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 3.
Whittington, M. Et al.
1997
Cabo Delgado
1996
Society for Environmental Exploration, London and Ministry for the Co-ordination of Environmental Affairs, Maputo.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
Quirimbas National Park
Central Islands Group – Ibo, Quirimba, Sencar and Quilaluia Islands. Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 3.
Northern Islands Group – Macaloe, Mogundula, Rolas and Matemo Islands. Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 2
Stanwell-Smith, D. Et al.
1998
Nampula
Society for Environmental Exploration, London and Ministry for the Co-ordination of Environmental Affairs
Field support for this work provided by the Darwin/Frontier-Moçambique Marine Research Programme, a joint initiative of Ministry for the Coordination of Environmental Affairs, Mozambique and the Society for Environmental Exploration, UK.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
Quirimbas National Park
Northern Islands Group – Macaloe, Mogundula, Rolas and Matemo Islands. Marine Biological and Resource Use Surveys of the Quirimba Archipelago. Frontier Mozambique Environmental Research Report 2
The Economics of Change: Catalyzing the Investment Shift Toward a Restorative Built Environment
Twill, J. Et al.
2011
N/A
Earth Economics
The Economics of Change: Catalyzing the Investment Shift Toward a Restorative Built Environment provides effective alternatives to the current financial model and policy framework that drive investment decisions in real estate. These alternatives will help shift limited investment capital towards a restorative built environment by integrating social and environment benefits into investment models appraiser methodologies, and supporting policies.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
The Economics of Change: Catalyzing the Investment Shift Toward a Restorative Built Environment
The Puyallup River Watershed: An Ecological Economic Characterization
Batker, D. Et al.
2011
N/A
Earth Economics
This document presents an ecological economic characterization of the Puyallup River Watershed, located in Washington State, USA. The primary goal of such a characterization is to understand nature and the human economy as a single system. Identifying and valuing nature’s contribution to the economy enables better decisions that improve local and regional quality of life. The study introduces the watershed, geography and other relevant features. Ecological economics is a recent advancement in economics and provides an integrated approach to managing a watershed’s economy and ecosystems.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
The Puyallup River Watershed: An Ecological Economic Characterization
Economic Impact of Metro Parks Tacoma Ecosystem Services: Economic Impact Study Phase II
Christin, Z.; Batker, D. & Harrison-Cox, J.,
2011
N/A
Earth Economics
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Economic Impact of Metro Parks Tacoma Ecosystem Services: Economic Impact Study Phase II
Nature’s Value in Qinghai Province The Essential Economics of Ecosystem Services
Batker, D. & Harrison-Cox, J.
2010
N/A
Earth Economics
China is developing rapidly. Understanding the economic value of natural systems in areas like the Qinghai Province is essential to promote development and a high quality of life in both rural and urban communities. Many economic measures were developed when natural capital was abundant and built (man-made) capital was scarce. Today the goods and services of nature, like water, food, energy, flood protection and climate stability, are becoming scarce and more valuable. It is increasingly apparent that not only built capital, financial capital and labor are primary factors of production for economic development, but natural systems are as well. Until recently, land and natural systems were frequently excluded in economic analysis.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Nature’s Value in Qinghai Province The Essential Economics of Ecosystem Services
Puget Sound: Washington State’s Best Investment
Harrison-Cox, J. Et al.
2012
N/A
Earth Economic
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Puget Sound: Washington State’s Best Investment
The Little Biodiversity Finance Book A guide to proactive investment in natural capital (PINC)
Parker, C. & Cranford, M.
2010
N/A
The aim of the Little Biodiversity Finance Book is to help key stakeholders including governments, NGOs, the private sector, indigenous peoples and local communities to compare existing and future options for biodiversity and ecosystem finance in a clear and consistent way. To do this, this publication introduces an overarching framework that organises financial mechanisms under three main headings: revenue generation, delivery and institutional arrangements. These modules can be thought of as independent building blocks that can be arranged in a ‘mix and match’ approach, choosing the most suitable options from each module to create a more effective, efficient, and equitable financial system.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
The Little Biodiversity Finance Book A guide to proactive investment in natural capital (PINC)
Using economic tools to deliver conservation goals: a WWF field guide
Quesne, T. & McNally, R.
Sd
N/A
WWF
This guide demonstrates some of the ways in which WWF has developed economic approaches to the achievement of conservation success around the world, and some of the lessons that we have learned in the process.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Using economic tools to deliver conservation goals: a WWF field guide
Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Xishuangbanna Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative Pilot Site, China
Xi, Z.
2009
N/A
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is one of the fastest growing regions in the world, which involves significant economic and social changes transforming economies, countries and natural landscapes in the subregion inevitably affecting the environment. Recognizing this development challenge, in 2004, the GMS Working Group on Environment (WGE), facilitated by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), initiated a review of the GMS economic program from an environmental sustainability and management point of view.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Xishuangbanna Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative Pilot Site, China
A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation
GOFC-GOLD
Sd
N/A
This sourcebook provides a consensus perspective from the global community of earth observation and carbon experts on methodological issues relating to quantifying thegreenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of implementing mitigation activities related to the forestland use in developing countries (REDD+). Currently the climate negotiations identify five forest-related REDD+ activities as mitigation actions by developing countries,namely: reducing emissions from deforestation (which implies a land-use change) and reducing emissions from forest degradation, conservation of forest carbon stocks sustainable management of forest land, enhancement of forest carbon stocks (alrelating to carbon stock changes and GHG emissions within managed forest land use).
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Mountain Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Legal and Political (Laws, Regulations, Action Plans, Strategies, etc.)
None
A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation
Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Strategic Environmental Assessment Influential Case Studies
van Beukering, P.; Slootweg, R. & Immerzeel, D.
2008
N/A
Since the appearance of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a growing body of knowledge on ecosystem services is developing. After years of academic developments of the concepts, the approach is now increasingly applied in practice, supporting decision-making and guiding development into a more sustainable direction. For some reason, the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) community has hardly taken advantage of opportunities provided by the use of ecosystem services as a means to translate the biophysical environment into societal benefits. Even though we have looked for SEA case material very seriously, only few SEA cases were available with a clear recognition of ecosystem services.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Strategic Environmental Assessment Influential Case Studies
How much is an ECOSYSTEM worth? Assessing the economic value of conservation
IUCN
2004
N/A
The benefits provided by natural ecosystems are both widely recognized and poorly understood. What is increasingly clear, however, is that natural ecosystems are under enormous pressure around the world from the growing demands we place on them. Growth in human populations and prosperity translates into increased conversion of natural ecosystems to agricultural, industrial, or residential use, but also into increased demand for ecosystem inputs, such as fresh water, fiber, and soil fertility, as well as increased pressure on the capacity of natural ecosystems to assimilate our waste, including air and water pollution as well as solid waste.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
How much is an ECOSYSTEM worth? Assessing the economic value of conservation
Exploring ecosystem valuation to move towards net positive impact on biodiversity in the mining sector
Olsen, N.; Bishop, J. & ANstee, S.
2011
N/A
Rio Tinto has a policy goal of net positive impact (NPI) on biodiversity in its operations. The company aims to achieve NPI by combining state-of-the-art avoidance, mitigation and ecosystem restoration with biodiversity offsets and other conservation actions. In Madagascar, as part of its offset strategy, the company is considering supporting the conservation of approximately 60,000 hectares of lowland rainforest, to compensate in part for the unavoidable residual impacts of its mining operations in the region. The area to be conserved and the resulting biodiversity benefits are expected to meet and possibly exceed the conservation gains required to compensate for the residual impacts of the mining operation.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Exploring ecosystem valuation to move towards net positive impact on biodiversity in the mining sector
The Economic Value of Public Lands in Grand County, Utah
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
The Economic Value of Public Lands in Grand County, Utah
Valuing the Environment in Small Islands An Environmental Economics Toolkit 7-9
van Beukering, P. Et al.
2007
N/A
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Valuing the Environment in Small Islands An Environmental Economics Toolkit 7-9
Valuing the Environment in Small Islands An Environmental Economics Toolkit 4-6
Beukering, P. Et al.
200
N/A
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Valuing the Environment in Small Islands An Environmental Economics Toolkit 4-6
Valuing the Environment in Small Islands An Environmental Economics Toolkit 1-3
Beukering, P. Et al
2007
N/A
In 2007, three UK Overseas Territories – Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Montserrat – were awarded funding by the Overseas Territories Environment Programme (OTEP) to conduct environmental valuation studies. All three Territories aim to use valuation to demonstrate the benefi ts of the environment for human wellbeing, and to support more sustainable decision making in small islands. These valuation studies cover a variety of issues and ecosystems typical to small islands; the contexts include marine, coastal, inland mangrove wetland, and forest ecosystems, located in Territories with varying levels of development.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Valuing the Environment in Small Islands An Environmental Economics Toolkit 1-3
Ecosystem Service Valuation and Watershed Resources An annotated literature review
Dalton, T.
2003
N/A
The annotated literature review is divided into three sections. The first section of the literature review is the largest and it summarizes the theoretical thinking behind the valuation of ecosystem services. It is by far the largest section of the review because the bulk of thinking on ecosystem valuation has been theoretical or analytical. The second section of the review summarizes the limited number of studies that have attempted to empirically value ecosystems services. The third section is composed of studies related to ecosystem service valuation in areas such as the measurement of the multifunctional attributes of agriculture.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Ecosystem Service Valuation and Watershed Resources An annotated literature review
An exploration of tools and methodologies for valuation of biodiversity and biodiversity resources and functions
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
2007
N/A
The present document was initially prepared as an information document for the eleventh meeting of the Convention’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), which took place in November 2005, in Montreal, Canada.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
An exploration of tools and methodologies for valuation of biodiversity and biodiversity resources and functions
Tools for Conservation and Use of Pollination Services Economic Valuation of Pollination Services: Review of Methods
FAO
2006
N/A
The study has been conducted on the basis of an in-depth review of existing literature on the valuation of ecosystem services in general and the pollination service in particular. Section 2 analyses which valuation methodologies can be used to analyse the pollination service, and Section 3 reviews the experiences with the valuation of the pollination service to date. Section 4 presents a semi-hypothetical case study on pollination in Ethiopian coffee farming.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Tools for Conservation and Use of Pollination Services Economic Valuation of Pollination Services: Review of Methods
Marine and coastal ecosystem services: Valuation methods and their application
UNEP-WCMC
2011
N/A
UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity
Measurement of ecosystem services and their values to humans is rapidly becoming the principal means for communicating the impacts of ecological change on human well-being.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Marine and coastal ecosystem services: Valuation methods and their application
Environmental Economics Tool Kit – Analyzing the Economic Costs of Land Degradation and the Benefits of Sustainable Land Management
Hein, L.
2006
N/A
UNDP-GEF
This Toolkit has been prepared to support the design and implementation of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) programs. The specific purpose of the Toolkit is: to inform the user of the approaches that can be followed to analyze and value the economic costs of land degradation and the benefits of sustainable land management. ‘Land’ is interpreted broadly in the Toolkit, also including wetlands and coastal zones. The Toolkit follows the general approach of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2003, 2005). Among others, this means that the Toolkit considers the broad range of benefits provided by agricultural and natural ecosystems, including provisioning, regulation and cultural services
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Environmental Economics Tool Kit – Analyzing the Economic Costs of Land Degradation and the Benefits of Sustainable Land Management
Monetary values of environmental and social externalities for the purpose of cost-benefit analysis in the EFORWOOD project
Prokofieva, I. Et al.
2005
N/A
The objective of the present document is to summarise the work on the monetary valuation of environmental and social externalities in the WP1.5 within the EFORWOOD project. The monetary estimates presented in this document form the core of the cost-benefit analysis implemented in the TOSIA-E software package developed during the project. The report partially builds on the previous deliverable PD1.5.1., which laid ground to this work by discussing the most important externalities that could potentially be included in the valuation process and suggesting the adequate indicators to measure these externalities.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Monetary values of environmental and social externalities for the purpose of cost-benefit analysis in the EFORWOOD project
A Benefit Transfer Approach to the Estimation of Agro-Ecosystems Services Benefits: A Case Study of Kern County, California
Qenani-Petrela, E.; Noel, J. & Mastin, T.
2007
N/A
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of benefit transfer as methodology for measuring baseline and marginal value (loss) estimates of agro-ecosystem non-market goods and services. The benefit transfer methodology is used to estimate the agro-ecosystem non-market goods and services values in Kern County, California. We conclude by suggesting that some estimate of the value of the non-market good and services provided by agro-ecosystem functions is important to the determination of either public policy prescriptions or market-based incentive programs that have as their objective maintaining or increasing those agro-ecosystem function non-market goods and services.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
A Benefit Transfer Approach to the Estimation of Agro-Ecosystems Services Benefits: A Case Study of Kern County, California
Valuing New Jersey’s Natural Capital: An Assessment of the Economic Value of the State’s Natural Resources PART I: OVERVIEW
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
2007
N/A
In 2004, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection partnered with the Geraldine R. Dodge and William Penn Foundations to undertake an important project to assess the economic value of New Jersey’s natural resources. As a result of generous funding from the two foundations, DEP entered into a contract with the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, Rubinstein Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (“UVM”). The UVM researchers were charged with examining the ecosystem services portion of the project, and DEP staff were charged with examining the ecosystem goods part of the project.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Valuing New Jersey’s Natural Capital: An Assessment of the Economic Value of the State’s Natural Resources PART I: OVERVIEW
Estimating Cost Effectiveness of Residential Yard Trees for Improving Air Quality in Sacramento, California, Using Existing Models
McPherson, G.; Scott, K. & Simpson, J.
1997
N/A
Pacific Southwest Research Station
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District's (SMUD) shade tree program will result in the planting of 500,000 trees and has been found to produce net benefits from air conditioning savings. In this study we assume three scenarios (base, highest, and lowest benefits) based on the SMUD program and apply Best Available Control Technology (BACT) cost analysis to determine if shade trees planted in residential yards can be a cost effective means to improve air quality.
English
No Restrictions
General
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Estimating Cost Effectiveness of Residential Yard Trees for Improving Air Quality in Sacramento, California, Using Existing Models
The role of ecosystem valuation in environmental decision making: Hydropower relicensing and dam removal on the Elwha River
Gowan, C.; Stephenson, K. & Shabman, L.
2005
N/A
Ecological Economics
A primary, but rarely examined, justification for ecosystem valuation studies is that monetization of environmental amenities and services makes a needed contribution to environmental decision making. This paper systematically examines the role and contribution of economic analysis, and specifically ecosystem valuation, in a precedent-setting dam removal case. The removal of operating hydropower dams for the purpose of ecosystem restoration (as opposed for safety reasons) is rapidly gaining national attention. One of the first examples involved two dams on the Elwha River in the state of Washington. In this paper we describe the technical analysis that was employed and how such analysis contributed to that dam removal decision.
English
No Restrictions
General
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
The role of ecosystem valuation in environmental decision making: Hydropower relicensing and dam removal on the Elwha River