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Experience in Approbation of Societal Land Value as a Basis for Ecological and Economic Assessment of Damage from Land Degradation

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As a development of the ideas of ecological and economic assessment of land degradation, the notion of societal land value is suggested as a characteristic that simplifies the consideration of the environmental factor, including, in particular, ecosystem services in the final valuation indicators. An integral part of the societal value of agricultural land is the value of the basic properties of soil associated with agricultural production. To convert soil indicators into monetary values, the cost of an analogous artificial product available on the market and related to the given soil property (e.g., vermicompost as an analogue of soil humus) is taken into account. The assessment of societal land value for Belgorod oblast attests to a high contribution (up to 62%) of soil component to it. It is proposed that the category of societal land value can be used as the basis for calculation of indicators of the ecological and economic damage from land degradation.

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  1. The difference in the notions of land and soil in Russian literature is discussed in [24].

  2. In this paper, the terms ecosystem favors (Russian: ekosistemnye uslugi) and ecosystem services are assumed to be equivalent, though a different point of view on the use of these terms is sometimes expressed, e.g., in [38].

  3. Somewhat synonymous notions of the bulk value, ecological or environmental expenses, environmental cost, etc. can be found in literature.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-010-00775a.

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  1. Lomonosov Moscow State University–Eurasian Center for Food Security, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    E. V. Tsvetnov

  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    N. A. Marakhova, O. A. Makarov & D. R. Abdulkhanova

  3. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 119571, Moscow, Russia

    A. S. Strokov

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Tsvetnov, E.V., Marakhova, N.A., Makarov, O.A. et al. Experience in Approbation of Societal Land Value as a Basis for Ecological and Economic Assessment of Damage from Land Degradation. Eurasian Soil Sc. 52, 1298–1305 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229319100168

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