Natural and rural landscape modifications by human interventions such as infrastructures, industrial and energy plants are often considered as a major barrier to projects' implementation.
Ex ante assessment of the economic cost of visual intrusion is considered a way to ease projects' implementation, by providing information for land planning (suitable and non-suitable areas) and project siting (impact mitigation).
The problem is that conventional methods to assess the economic value of landscape impacts (i.e. contingent evaluation of the willingness to pay) are very expensive and generate site-specific information that is difficult to transfer to other geographic contexts.
Evaluating methods able to integrate the use of internationally available statistics and indicators (proxies of landscape values) would ease comparability and transferability of economic estimates of landscape value.
Which are the suggested methods able to achieve these targets? Which are the available statistics/indicators on which such methods could rely?
Remote sensing and GIS is the technics available to study change detection analysis in the specific spatial region, can find the infrastructure development and different spatial modification and prepare certain set of questions for survey the local people or stakeholders for finding social cost os landscape impact
Hi, from the point of view of economics, public goods are created with the help of the landscape. I agree that the economic effect of creating public goods is difficult to assess.
Recently, the concept of ecological (ecosystem) services has appeared. They even do calculations of the total volume of services.
You can find the necessary works by keywords here https://scholar.google.ru/
But the authors have a methodological error. They believe that ecological services are provided by the ecosystem itself. This is contrary to common sense: the services are provided by a person.
Another method is using the gap between the physical planning by authorities and what is actually observed on the ground. You always find that in developing countries, there is a great difference between what is planned and what is on the ground. What is on the ground is more than what was planned. This can be a method that can be used to assess social cost.
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