EVTool
Category: Economical
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Tool type: Excel file
Input data:
- fish landings, fish price, fuel cost, labor cost, carbon sequestration and retention rates, carbon (CO2) price, number of nature-related visitors, visitor’s nature-related expenditure, real estate prices, nature-related features of real-estate.
- Output: value estimates for wild fish, global climate regulation, and recreation and visual amenity ecosystem services.
- Target users: policy-makers, NGO, researchers.
- Location tested: Gulf of Biscay, Menorca Channel, Archipelago Sea.
- Level of uncertainty: the tool works on available data, so the quality and uncertainty of output data depends on the quality of input data.
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- Rights: Excel file, no further property rights.
- Difficulty level of implementation: Moderate
- Skill required (for method use): Excel user level
- Authors: Mario Criado (Universidad de Salamanca)
- Tool contributors: Víctor Colino (Universidad de Salamanca)
- Project general coordinator: Fernando Rodríguez (Universidad de Salamanca)
- Project Scientific manager: Fernando Rodríguez (Universidad de Salamanca)
- Project manager: Fernando Rodríguez (Universidad de Salamanca.
- Name: Fernando Rodríguez
- Organization: Universidad de Salamanca
- Email: frodriguez@usal.es
Systematized economic valuation tool – EVTool
EVTool is a simplified instrument that allows to approach the estimated value of ecosystem services adapted to the available information. The tool focuses on key ecosystem services within three categories: provisioning (wild fish), regulating and maintenance (global climate regulation), and cultural (recreation and visual amenity). For all cases, the tool provides three tiers of precision for estimating the economic value of ecosystem services, depending on the quality of available data: cutting-edge (requires detailed, location-specific data), advanced (based either on detailed data from a different location -advanced-detailed, not local- or on general data from the same location -advanced-local, not detailed-), and entry-level (relies on general data from a different location).
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