[en] Valuing the ecosystem services can relate the concepts of structure and function to management issues. The absence of a valuation system endangers the ecosystem services, such as regulating services, that cannot be traded in the economic market. Valuing the ecosystem services can facilitate managers’ and policy makers’ understanding of ecosystem services and their place in decision-making processes. To protect the Protected Areas (PAs), the ecosystem components, opportunities, and threats should first be identified for these ecosystems. In this study, the ecosystem services were evaluated for three services (i.e., forage production, oxygen production, and carbon sequestration), and market pricing methods as well as alternative values were used for valuing these services. The study area was Tang-e Sayad protected area in Iran. The field studies include the implementation of 24 transects and using the plots with 2 m × 2 m dimensions at a distance of 100 m from each other. Based on the results, the value of the protected area for the above three ecosystem services was 4173 USD per hectare per annum, which is a significant amount. Of this amount, 1% is related to the value of forage production, 19% to oxygen release, and 80% to carbon sequestration. These values can be a good guide for planning to focus on carbon sequestration and to reduce grazing pressure in the protected area. It is suggested that valuation processes continue, especially in protected areas, so that they can be used in protection decisions and prioritization of the ecosystem services in policy-making for the PAs.
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy
Author, co-author :
Zandebasiri, Mehdi ; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement
Shirmardi, Hamzehali; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Jahanbazi Goujani, Hassan; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Iranmanesh, Yaghoub; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Shamsoddini, Shahbaz; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Fakhimi, Elham; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Mokhtarpour, Touraj; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Gholipour, Zeinab; Research Division of Natural Resources, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Shahrekord, Iran
Viira, Ants-Hannes; Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Language :
English
Title :
The Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Economic Value-Based Management in a Case Study of Protected Areas in Iran
Publication date :
August 2023
Journal title :
International Journal of Environmental Research
ISSN :
1735-6865
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
This study is part of the project of ‘valuing some ecosystem services in Tang-e Sayad PA’ ordered by the Department of Environment of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran, with contract number: 99/25500 which is underway in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center and approved by AREEO with approved code: 4-42-09-125-001272. We are grateful for the valuable comments of three anonymous reviewers that improved the quality of this article. In addition, we thank the efforts of Dr. Zohreh Mosleh and Dr. Amin Zeraatkar for scientific helps in this paper.
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