Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Conservation and Human Welfare: Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Services

  • Published:
Environmental and Resource Economics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Adams WM, Aveling R, Brockington D, Dickson B, Elliott J, Hutton J, Roe D, Vira B, Wolmer W (2004) Biodiversity conservation and the eradication of poverty. Science 306: 1146–1149

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ahrends AND, Burgess MSAH, Bulling MT, Fisher B, Smart JCR, Clarke GP, Mhoro BE, Lewis SL (2010) Predictable waves of sequential forest degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 107: 14556–14561

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Andam KS, Ferraro PJ, Pfaff A, Sanchez-Azofeifa GA, Robalino JA (2008) Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 105: 16089–16094

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Andam KS, Ferraro PJ, Sims KRE, Healy A, Holland MB (2010) Protected areas reduced poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 107: 9996–10001

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Balmford A, Fisher B, Green RE, Naidoo R, Strassburg BBN, Turner RK, Rodrigues ASL (this issue) Bringing ecosystem services into the real world: an operational framework for assessing the economic consequences of losing wild nature. Environ Resour Econ

  • Bateman IJ, Mace GM, Fezzi C, Atkinson G, Turner RK (this issue) Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments. Environ Resour Econ

  • Carpenter SR, DeFries R, Dietz T, Mooney HA, Polasky S, Reid WV, Scholes RJ (2006) Millennium ecosystem assessment: research needs. Science 314: 257–258

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Costello C, Gaines SD, Lynham J (2008) Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse?. Science 321: 1678–1681

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Daily GC, Polasky S, Goldstein J, Kareiva PK, Mooney HA, Pejchar L, Ricketts TH, Salzman J, Shallenberger R (2009) Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver. Front Ecol Environ 7: 21–28

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dasgupta P (2010) 20th Anniversary of EAERE: the European association of environmental and resource economists. Environ Resour Econ 46: 135–137

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dietz T, Ostrom E, Stern PC (2003) The struggle to govern the commons. Science 302: 1907–1912

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferraro PJ, Hanauerz MM (this issue) Protecting ecosystems and alleviating poverty with parks and reserves: win-wins or tradeoffs? Environ Resour Econ

  • Fischer C, Muchapondwa E, Sterner T (this issue) A bio-economic model of community incentives for wildlife management under CAMPFIRE. Environ Resour Econ

  • Fisher B, Christopher T (2007) Poverty cand biodiversity: measuring the overlap of human poverty and the biodiversity hotspots. Ecol Econ 62: 93–101

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Guo ZW, Xiao XM, Li DM (2000) An assessment of ecosystem services: water flow regulation and hydroelectric power production. Ecol Appl 10: 925–936

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hein L, van Koppen K, de Groot RS, van Ierland EC (2006) Spatial scales stakeholders and the valuation of ecosystem services. Ecol Econ 57: 209–228

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hooper DU, Chapin FS, Ewel JJ, Hector A, Inchausti P, Lavorel S, Lawton JH, Lodge DM, Loreau M, Naeem S, Schmid B, Setala H, Symstad AJ, Vandermeer J, Wardle DA (2005) Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge. Ecol Monogr 75: 3–35

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Island Press, Washington, DC

  • Myers N, Mittermeier RA, Mittermeier CG, da Fonseca GAB, Kent J (2000) Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403: 853–858

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Naeem S, Thompson LJ, Lawler SP, Lawton JH, Woodfin RM (1994) Declining biodiversity can alter the performance of ecosystems. Nature 368: 734–737

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Naidoo R, Balmford A, Costanza R, Fisher B, Green RE, Lehner B, Malcolm TR, Ricketts TH (2008) Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 105: 9495–9500

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Naidoo R, Stuart-Hill G, Weaver LC, Tagg J, Davis A, Davidson A (this issue) Effect of diversity of large wildlife species on financial benefits to local communities in northwest Namibia Environ Resour Econ

  • Nelson E, Mendoza G, Regetz J, Polasky S, Tallis H, Cameron DR, Chan KMA, Daily GC, Goldstein J, Kareiva PM, Lonsdorf E, Naidoo R, Ricketts TH, Shaw MR (2009) Modeling multiple ecosystem services biodiversity conservation commodity production and tradeoffs at landscape scales. Front Ecol Environ 7: 4–11

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nordhaus WD (2007) A review of the stern review on the economics of climate change. J Econ Liter 45(3): 686–702

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ostrom E (1990) Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Pauly D, Christensen V, Dalsgaard J, Froese R, Torres F (1998) Fishing down marine food webs. Science 279: 860–863

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pfisterer AB, Schmid B (2002) Diversity-dependent production can decrease the stability of ecosystem functioning. Nature 416: 84–86

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Polasky S, Nelson E, Pennington D, Johnson KA (this issue) The impact of land-use change on ecosystem services biodiversity and returns to landowners: a case study in the State of Minnesota. Environ Resour Econ

  • Ricketts TH, Daily GC, Ehrlich PR, Michener CD (2004) Economic value of tropical forest to coffee production. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 101: 12579–12582

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sanchirico JN, Springborn M (this issue) How to get there from here: ecological and economic dynamics of ecosystem service provision. Environ Resour Econ

  • Smith R, Muir R, Walpole M, Balmford A, Leader-Williams N (2003) Governance and the loss of biodiversity. Nature 426: 67–70

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sodhi NS, Posa MRC, Lee TM, Bickford D, Koh LP, Brook BW (2010) The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity. Biodiver Conserv 19: 317–328

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Solan M, Cardinale BJ, Downing AL, Engelhardt KAM, Ruesink JL, Srivastava DS (2004) Extinction and ecosystem function in the marine benthos. Science 306: 1177–1180

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stern N (2007) The economics of climate change: the stern review. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Sterner T, Persson UM (2008) An even sterner review: introducing relative prices into the discounting debate. Rev Environ Econ Policy 2(1): 61–76

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sutherland WJ, Adams WM, Aronson RB, Aveling R, Blackburn TM, Broad S, Ceballos G, Cote IM, Cowling RM, Da Fonseca GAB, Dinerstein E, Ferraro PJ, Fleishman E, Gascon C, Hunter M, Hutton J, Kareiva P, Kuria A, MacDonald DW, MacKinnon K, Madgwick FJ, Mascia MB, McNeely J, Milner-Gulland EJ, Moon S, Morley CG, Nelson S, Osborn D, Pai M, Parsons ECM, Peck LS, Possingham H, Prior SV, Pullin AS, Rands MRW, Ranganathan J, Redford KH, Rodriguez JP, Seymour F, Sobel J, Sodhi NS, Stott A, Vance-Borland K, Watkinson AR (2009) One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity. Conserv Biol 23: 557–567

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tilman D, Polasky S, Lehman C (2005) Diversity productivity and temporal stability in the economies of humans and nature. J Environ Econ Manag 49(3): 405–426

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tilman D, Reich PB, Knops JMH (2006) Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment. Nature 441: 629–632

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tilman D, Wedin D, Knops J (1996) Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems. Nature 379: 718–720

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wardle DA, Walker LR, Bardgett RD (2004) Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences. Science 305: 509–513

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Weitzman ML (2007) A review of the stern review on the economics of climate change. J Econ Liter 45(3): 703–724

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zabel A, Pittel K, Bostedt G, Engel S (this issue) Comparing conventional and new policy approaches for carnivore conservation—theoretical results and application to tiger conservation. Environ Resour Econ

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    Brendan Fisher

  2. Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK

    Brendan Fisher

  3. Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA

    Stephen Polasky

  4. Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 640, 40530, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Thomas Sterner

Authors
  1. Brendan Fisher
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Stephen Polasky
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Thomas Sterner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Brendan Fisher.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Fisher, B., Polasky, S. & Sterner, T. Conservation and Human Welfare: Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Services. Environ Resource Econ 48, 151–159 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9415-0

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9415-0

Keywords

Search

Navigation