Hi!, hope you're having a great day, being safe at home.
I'm from La Paz, Baja California Sur, México, and I'm writting my proposal for my thesis project for my Bachelors Degree in Management and water sciences.
Currently I'm interested in researching the economic assesment methods for ecosystem services (ES), specifically those related to catchment and provision of water.
I should mention that the region where I'll be working is a property located in the upper zone of the watershed (, where the main population are smallholders whose actions have cased the deterioration of the soil due to livestock activities; coupled with the arid climate or the region where the average maximum temperature is 36°C and the mean annual precipitation corresponds to 180-200 mm.
I already understand these phases for making the assesment process:
1. Identify the purpose of the assessment.
2. Identify the geographic scope of the proposal.
3. Identify the ecosystem services located in the geographic scope of the program.
4. Identification and characterization of the economic agents that benefit from the ES.
5. Prioritization and characterization of ecosystem goods and services.
6. Identify the different types of value (use / non-use) that are of interest for their economic valuation.
7. Choice and application of the economic valuation method.
I know that these phases that I have identified may seem clear but, but I have not yet been able to determine the indicators with which I am going to study in the field, and how to apply them to the design of my assesment method.
Hope you can help me, and if you have anny recomendations, I'm open to read what you have to teach me.
Thank you so much!
Hi Monica, I hope you are well. This is a bit outside of my expertise, I mostly work on insect pollinators and natural pest control. ?I am not sure how much help I can be. the only model I have had experience of is though the InVEST package (https://ecosystemsknowledge.net/invest) , which ahs good water related ecosystem service approaches. I would start there. Its freeware, so its very open and accessible (although I never did the modelling). Ben
You might find some papers wrote by Professor Jianhong Xiao from Qingdao University of China. He did a few stidy on this topic.
No se si te refieres a los servicios ecosistémicos desde una perspectiva puramente ambiental o económica. Aquí tienes un trabajo que valora los servicios ecosistémicos desde la perspectiva del rendimiento hídrico en un municipio de México. Aunque, si buscas, la bibliografía es abundante. https://revistas.um.es/geografia/article/view/322931/230431
Thank you so much for your suggestions, I'm gonna take a look and do some research!! Greetings!
Well,
Chapter Application of ecosystem services in spatial planning
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/knowledge/ecosystem_assessment/pdf/2ndMAESWorkingPaper.pdfRegards
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