Readings on Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Download papers here
1. Barbier, Edward, et al. 2008. “Coastal ecosystem-based management with nonlinear ecological functions and values”. Science 319, 321–323 (2008).
2. Barbier, Edward. 2007. “Valuing Ecosystems as Productive Inputs”. Economic Policy 22, 177–229.
3. Binder, Seth, Robert G. Haight, Stephen Polasky, Travis Warziniack, Miranda H.
Mockrin, Robert L. Deal, and Greg Arthaud. 2017. “Assessment and Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services: State of the Science Review.” Forest Service General Technical Report NRS-170 Northern Research Station 170 (May):1-47.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/54252
4. Costanza, Robert, Pérez-Maqueo, Octavio, Martínez, M., Sutton, Paul, Anderson, Sharolyn, and Mulder, Kenneth. 2008. “The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection”. Ambio. 37. 241-8.
5. Das, Saudamini and Crépin, A.-S. 2013. “Mangroves can provide protection against wind damage during storms.” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 134, 98–
107. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2013.09.021
6. Dasgupta, Partha. 2021. The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review. London:
HM Treasury. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/final-report-the-economics- of-biodiversity-the-dasgupta-review
https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2289
7. Freeman III, A. Myrick, Joseph A. Herriges, and Catherine L. Kling. 2014. The
Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values: Theory and Methods. 3rd Edition.
Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. [This reference has little to say about biodiversity and ecosystem service valuation. per se, but provides a thorough introduction to methods of valuation.]
8. Groom, Ben, Zachary Turk. 2021. “Reflections on the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity.” Environmental and Resource Economics 79:1–23.
9. Hanley, Nick, and Charles Perrings. 2019. “The Economic Value of Biodiversity.” Annual Review of Resource Economics 11: 355–75.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093946 .
10. Irwin, Elena G, and Nancy E Bockstael. 2001. “The Problem of Identifying Land Use Spillovers : Measuring the Effects of Open Space on Residential Property
Values” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(3): 698–704.
11. Johnson, Justin Andrew, Giovanni Ruta, Uris Baldos, Raffaello Cervigni, Shun Chonabayashi, Erwin Corong, Olga Gavryliuk, James Gerber, Thomas Hertel, Christopher Nootenboom, Stephen Polasky. 2021. The Economic Case for Nature: A Global Earth-Economy Model to Assess Development Policy Pathways. World Bank, Washington, DC. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35882
12. Karp, Daniel S., Chase D. Mendenhall, Randi Figueroa Sandí, Nicolas Chaumont, Paul R. Ehrlich, Elizabeth A. Hadly, and Gretchen C. Daily. 2013. “Forest Bolsters Bird Abundance, Pest Control and Coffee Yield.” Ecology Letters 16 (11): 1339–
47. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12173 .
13. Lele, Sharachchandra. 2009. “Watershed services of tropical forests: from hydrology to economic valuation to integrated analysis.” Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability 1:148–155.
14. Naidoo, Robin and Wiktor Adamowicz. 2005. “Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda”. Environment and Development Economics 10, , 159-178.
15. Pascual, Unai, Roldan Muradian, Luke Brander, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Berta Martín- López, Madhu Verma, Paul Armsworth, Michael Christie, Hans Cornelissen, Florian Eppink, Joshua Farley, John Loomis, Leonie Pearson, Charles Perrings, and Stephen Polasky. 2010. Chapter 5: “The Economics of Valuing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”. In Pushpam Kumar (editor), The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity:
Ecological and Economic Foundations. London: Routledge.
16. Paul, Carola, Nick Hanley, Sebastian T. Meyer, Christine Fürst, Wolfgang W. Weisser, and Thomas Knoke. 2020. “On the Functional Relationship between Biodiversity and Economic Value.” Science Advances 6 (5). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax7712.
17. Plantinga, Andrew J. 2021. “Recent Advances in Empirical Land-Use Modeling”. Annual Review of Resource Economics 2021. 13(1):1-15
18. Ricketts, Taylor H., and Eric Lonsdorf. 2013. “Mapping the Margin: Comparing Marginal Values of Tropical Forest Remnants for Pollination Services.” Ecological Applications 23 (5): 1113–23.
https://doi.org/10.1890/12-1600.1 .
19. Ruckelshaus, M, A. D. Guerry, L. Mandle, A. Vogl and N. Nathan. 2022. Report on Natural Capital Approaches. The Natural Capital Project at Stanford University, Stanford CA.
20. Simpson, R. David, Roger A Sedjo, John W Reid, R David Simpson, Roger A Sedjo, and John W Reid. 1996. “Valuing Biodiversity for Use in Pharmaceutical Research.” The Journal of Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1086/262021 .
21. Simpson, R. David.. 2017. “The Simple but Not-Too-Simple Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Basic Principles and an Illustrative Example.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/21606544.2016.1184594 .
22. Simpson, R. David. 2019. “Conservation Incentives from an Ecosystem Service: How Much Farmland Might Be Devoted to Native Pollinators?” Environmental and Resource Economics 73 (2): 661–78.
23. Tan-Soo, J. S., N. Adnan, I. Ahmad, S. K. Pattanayak, and J. R. Vincent. “Econometric Evidence on Forest Ecosystem Services: Deforestation and Flooding in Malaysia.”
Environmental and Resource Economics 63(1): 25–44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640- 014-9834-4.
24. Van Kooten, G. Cornelis, and Craig M.T. Johnston. 2016. “The Economics of Forest Carbon Offsets.” Annual Review of Resource Economics 8 (1): 227–
46. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-100815-095548.
25. Verma, Madhu and Dhaval Negandhi. 2011. “Valuing ecosystem services of wetlands – A tool for effective policy formulation and poverty alleviation.” Hydrological Sciences Journal, 56(8)1622-1639.
26. Vincent, Jeffrey R., Ismariah Ahmad, Norliyana Adnan, Walter B. Burwell, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Jie Sheng Tan-Soo, and Kyle Thomas. 2016. “Valuing Water Purification by Forests: An Analysis of Malaysian Panel Data.” Environmental and Resource
Economics 64 (1): 59–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-015-9934-9