{"id":1500,"date":"2015-04-22T17:56:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T21:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:54:23","slug":"1500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2015\/04\/22\/1500\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecosystem Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ecosystemvaluation.org\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>The Ecosystem Valuation website is a site that helps people who are not economist or do not have backgrounds in economy to find ways to quantify the many values provided to humans from ecosystem services. The ability to place a value on an ecosystem and the ecological functions it provides is very powerful because it allows people to see landscapes and ecosystems for their value rather than their physical attributes.<\/p>\n<p>The site is broken down into six sections; purposes and uses, the big picture, essentials of ecosystem valuation, dollar-based ecosystem valuation methods, and ecosystem benefit indicators. Each section takes complicated economic theories and simplifies them for the average person.<\/p>\n<p>For this post I will focus on the section titled the \u201cBig Picture\u201d. This section provides a great overview of why it is important to value ecosystems and a brief overview of the different ways this can be done. Each section provides examples of when it is best to use certain methods and their advantages. This section is a great place to start if you are someone who needs to place a value on a certain ecosystem or ecosystem service for a class, project, or own interest. I used this website for my senior seminar to help value coastal wetland&#8217;s ecosystem services and it was extremely helpful for someone like me who is not well versed in economics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1502 \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-22-at-5.32.08-PM-300x144.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-22 at 5.32.08 PM\" width=\"349\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-Austen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ecosystemvaluation.org\/index.html The Ecosystem Valuation website is a site that helps people who are not economist or do not have backgrounds in economy to find ways to quantify the many values provided to humans from ecosystem services. The ability to place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2015\/04\/22\/1500\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19631,1342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2015","category-tools-of-the-geographer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}