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    • Economic Valuation Study
    • Livelihood Support (e.g. x number of jobs or x tons fish)
    • Payment for Ecosystem Services Project or Agreement
    • Socio-cultural and Spiritual use and value
  • Ecosystem Good or Service
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    • Cleaning Pollutants from Air and Water
    • Climate Regulation or Carbon Storage and Sequestration
    • Creating Soil or Preventing Erosion
    • Degradation or Loss of Ecosystem Service
    • Freshwater Quality, Supply, and Flow
    • Medicinal Species or Bioprospecting
    • Multiple Services
    • Option or Existence Value
    • Pollination
    • Preventing Diseases or Controlling Pests
    • Providing Food
    • Reducing Impacts from Natural Hazards
    • Renewable Raw Materials Production
    • Spiritual, Cultural, Religious or Inspirational Values
    • Tourism and Recreational Value
  • Type of Ecosystem
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    • Coral Reef
    • Deep Sea
    • Desert
    • Freshwater: rivers, streams or lakes
    • Mangroves, Wetlands or Coastal
    • Multiple Ecosystems
    • Temperate Forests and Shrublands
    • Temperate Grasslands and Savannah
    • Tropical Forests and Shrublands
    • Tropical Grasslands and Savannah
    • Tundra and Taiga
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  • About
    • The Center for Applied Biodiversity Science developed this on-line bibliography on the economic, livelihood and cultural values of natural areas, and payments for them, to build awareness of the incredible benefits people derive from biodiversity and ecosystems.
    • While some ecosystem services are valued economically, we also believe that the moral, religious, psychological, spiritual and cultural value of biodiversity – is immeasurable.
    • The map allows users to select the types of cases (economic valuation, livelihood, payment for environmental services, spiritual/cultural) they want to see; for many types of ecosystems, or few; and for different map layers. The map has basic geographic features, and protected area locations, the distribution of the most endangered species, and the distribution of indigenous languages.
    • We hope this map will generate discussion among practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, and the general public about the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services, their critical importance to livelihoods, the cost of environmental degradation, and innovative payments for ecosystem services programs. For all of the cases, we have simplified findings, removing research caveats and assumptions. Because of the variety of methodologies and assumptions used in economic valuation, cross-comparison of cases is not meaningful or accurate.
  • Acknowledgment
    • Protected Areas
      • Protected areas shown are extracted from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) in December 2007 supplied by UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). The WDPA is a joint product of UNEP and the IUCN, prepared by UNEP-WCMC and the IUCN WCPA working with Governments, the Secretariats of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and collaborating NGOs. For further information email: protectedareas@unep-wcmc.org.
    • Indigenous Languages
    • Alliance for Zero Exctinction
      • Alliance for Zero Extinction or AZE sites are defined as discrete areas in which the sole population of at least one critically endangered or endangered species occurs according to the IUCN redlist.
    • Ricketts, T.H., et al. 2005. Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - US. 51: 18497-18501
    • CI Hotspots layer
      • Hotspots Revisited, Conservation International 2004, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA. © 2005 Conservation International Foundation.
    • Map Services
  • Disclaimer
    • The political and geographic designations shown on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion on behalf of CI or any of its partners concerning the legal status or delineation of the frontiers of any country, territory or area.
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