Valuing New Jersey's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital: A Spatially Explicit Benefit Transfer Approach

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2010

Authors

Liu, Shuang
Costanza, Robert
Troy, Austin
D’Aagostino, John
Mates, Willam

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Springer

Abstract

We intend to estimate the value of ecosystem services in the U.S. State of New Jersey using spatially explicit benefit transfer. The aggregated net rent, a conservative underestimate for the total economic value of the state's natural environment, ranged

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Keywords: Benefit transfer; Economic values; Ecosystem services; Environmental decision making; Gap analysis; Generalization Error; Land use/land cover; Mean values; Natural capital; Natural environments; Net present value; New Jersey; Research results; Spatial dat Central tendency point transfer; Ecosystem services valuation; Environmental decision-making; Generalization errors; Measurement errors; Natural capital accounting; Trade-offs; Uncertainty

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Environmental Management (New York)

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2037-12-31