Limitations of Economic Valuation of Ecosystems

By Donald Ludwig. Ecosystems, 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values (2012, background): “…metrics, an ES approach will continue to be critiqued by many: ecologists and others perceiving intrinsic or other “higher” values in nature (e.g., Ludwig, 2000; McCauley, 2006; Redford and Adams, 2009; Rees, 1998); philosophers and others concerned with inappropriate assumptions of…”
Ethical Considerations in On-Ground Applications of the Ecosystem Services Concept (2012, background): “The term service emphasizes the value that natural entities have for human purposes (i.e., their instrumental values) at the expense of an emphasis on their intrinsic values (Ludwig 2000).”
Effects of Economic Prosperity on Numbers of Threatened Species (2001, background): “The cultural, aesthetic, and ethical reasons for avoiding a massive extinction of much of the earth’s biodiversity have also been well documented (Ehrlich & Ehrlich 1992; Gowdy 1997; Ludwig 2000).”
Landscapes' Capacities to Provide Ecosystem Services - a Concept for Land-Cover Based Assessments (2009, background): “…of ecosystem services or environmental accounting (like e.g. Mäler et al. 2008, Boyd & Banzhaf 2006), whose pertinence is debated due to its economic terminology, its anthropocentric orientation and the underestimation of biological principles (Ludwig 2000, Chee 2004, Rapport & Singh 2006).”
Estimating the environmental costs of soil erosion at multiple scales in Kenya using emergy synthesis (2006, background): “There have been numerous critiques of economic valuation of ecological services (e.g. Pritchard et al., 2000; Ludwig, 2000), despite their obvious attraction from a practical and regulatory perspective (Hall et al., 2001).”