Economic valuation and the commodification of ecosystem services
Economic valuation and the commodification of ecosystem services
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DOI：
10.1177/0309133311421708
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Ruiz-Perez, Manuel
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作者：
Gomez-Baggethun, Erik;Ruiz-Perez, Manuel
在过去十年中，越来越多的环境科学家主张对生态系统服务进行经济估值，作为一种务实的短期战略，以反映主流政治和经济观点的语言宣传生物多样性的价值。本文从两个经常被忽视的方面重新审视了生态系统服务经济价值的争论。第一，环境政策和治理目前所处的特定机构设置在形成估值结果方面的作用。第二，更广泛的经济和社会政治过程，这些过程控制着定价向以前非市场化的环境领域的扩展。我们的分析表明，在制度设置和更广泛的社会政治进程中，自20世纪80年代末以来，经济估值可能会为生态系统服务的商品化铺平道路，从长远来看，对生物多样性保护和公平获得生态系统服务惠益可能会产生适得其反的影响。
In the last decade a growing number of environmental scientists have advocated economic valuation of ecosystem services as a pragmatic short-term strategy to communicate the value of biodiversity in a language that reflects dominant political and economic views. This paper revisits the controversy on economic valuation of ecosystem services in the light of two aspects that are often neglected in ongoing debates. First, the role of the particular institutional setup in which environmental policy and governance is currently embedded in shaping valuation outcomes. Second, the broader economic and sociopolitical processes that have governed the expansion of pricing into previously non-marketed areas of the environment. Our analysis suggests that within the institutional setup and broader sociopolitical processes that have become prominent since the late 1980s economic valuation is likely to pave the way for the commodification of ecosystem services with potentially counterproductive effects in the long term for biodiversity conservation and equity of access to ecosystem services benefits.