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Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD)
Citation
Brander, L.M. de Groot, R, Guisado Goñi, V., van 't Hoff, V., Schägner, P., Solomonides, S., McVittie, A., Eppink, F., Sposato, M., Do, L., Ghermandi, A., and Sinclair, M. (2023). Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD). Foundation for Sustainable Development and Brander Environmental Economics. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8501

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Description
The focus of the ESVD is to gather information on economic welfare values related to ecosystem services measured in monetary units. By communicating such values in monetary units, we provide recognisable information that can be used to internalise the importance of Nature in decision making. more

The ESVD organises its value estimates and corresponding data in 166 columns with information on among others: biomes, ecosystem and ecozone types, ecosystem services, valuation result in original units, country and continent, coordinates, scale of study site, valuation method, protected status and condition, bibliographic details, standardised value, and review status.

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Terrestrial, Biomes, Cultural services, Ecosystem services, Habitat services, Monetary values, Provisioning services, Regulating services, World

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Publication
Based on this dataset
de Luca Peña, L.V. et al. (2024). Monetized (socio-)environmental handprint and footprint of an offshore windfarm in the Belgian Continental Shelf: An assessment of local, regional and global impacts. Appl. Energy 353: 122123. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.122123, more
Taelman, S.E. et al. (2024). Integrating ecosystem services and life cycle assessment: A framework accounting for local and global (socio-)environmental impacts. Int. J. Life Cycle Assess. 29: 99-115. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-023-02216-3, more
de Groot, R. et al. (2012). Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units. Ecosystem Services 1(1): 50-61. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2012.07.005, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2024-03-04
Information last updated: 2024-03-11
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