Ecosystem Services and Government Accountability

Ecosystem Services and Government Accountability: The Need for a New Way of Judging Nature's Value

In the Summer 2005 issue of Resources, James W. Boyd and H. Spencer Banzhaf discuss "ecosystem services," the newest environmental buzzword.

Below are a variety of links for those who would like to learn more about this topic and related issues.

Selected RFF Works on Ecosystem Services and Valuation of Environmental Benefits

What's Nature Worth? Using Indicators to Open the Black Box of Ecological Valuation James Boyd Resources Summer 2004	Measuring Ecosystem Service Benefits: The Use of Landscape Analysis to Evaluate Environmental Trades and Compensation James Boyd and Lisa Wainger Discussion Paper 02-63 April 2003 \| Abstract	Cost-Effective Conservation: A Review of What Works to Preserve Biodiversity Paul Ferraro and R. David Simpson Resources Spring 2001

Valuation of Natural Resource Improvements in the Adirondacks An RFF Report September 2004	Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods Robert A. Young RFF Press 2005	A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production R. David Simpson Discussion Paper 01-16

Habitat Benefit Assessment and Decisionmaking: A Report to the National Marine Fisheries Service
J. Boyd, J. Sanchirico, and L. Shabman
Discussion Paper 04-09 | September 2004 | Abstract
A Social Scientist's Perspective on the Potential Benefits of the Census of Marine Life
James N. Sanchirico
Discussion Paper 04-23 REV | September 2004 | Abstract
Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity: The State of the Debate
Jeffrey Krautkraemer
Discussion Paper 05-14 | April 2005 | Abstract
Accounting for the Environment
H. Spencer Banzhaf
Resources Summer 2003
Adding Environmental Services to an Economy's Scorecard
H. Spencer Banzhaf and V. Kerry Smith
Issue Brief 02-09 | August 2002 | Issue Backgrounder
Definitions of Biodiversity and Measures of Its Value
R. David Simpson
Discussion Paper 02-62 | November 2002 | Abstract
The Law and Economics of Habitat Conservation: Lessons from an Analysis of Easement Acquisitions
James W. Boyd, Kathryn Caballero, and R. David Simpson
Discussion Paper 99-32 | April 1999 | Abstract
Reserve Site Selection in a Limited-Entry Fishery
James N. Sanchirico
Discussion Paper 02-69 | December 2002 | Abstract

For more information about RFF's work in this area, see Research Topics Valuation, Biodiversity and Conservation, and Cost-Benefit Analysis.