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• Title:
  An economist looks at ecosystem services
• Creator:
  Żylicz, Tomasz
• Contributor:
  University of Warsaw;
  Professor Tomasz Żylicz Ph.D. Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw (UW) Graduated from Economics (1974) and Mathematics (1977) Departments of the UW. Economics and mathematics studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison 1978/1979. Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder 1988/89. Visiting professor at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm 1992/93. In 1989–1991 employed by the Polish Ministry of Environment as the Economics Director, responsible for the state environmental budget where he co-authored a major environmental policy reform. In 1993 he received the “Pew Scholar Award in Conservation and the Environment”. He used the award to create the Warsaw Ecological Economics Center at UW. The Center carries out research on economic aspects of environmental protection as well as hosts fellowships for young scholars. Authored numerous academic papers including articles in Environmental and Resource Economics and Ecological Economics. The book Costing Nature in a Transition Economy. Case Studies in Poland (Elgar; Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA 2000) summarises many of the research projects carried out at the Warsaw Ecological Economics Center.
• Description:
  This chapter lists ecosystem services and discusses what techniques can be applied in order to assess their economic value. The last five decades witnessed enormous progress in developing valuation techniques applied to non-market goods (i.e. the goods that do not have market prices). These can be broadly divided into direct and indirect techniques. The former aim at capturing them directly e.g. by asking people “how much they are willing to pay”. The latter derive values from observing prices not for the good of interest, but rather for a complementary good whose characteristics shed some light on peopleʼs relevant preferences. These techniques were successfully tested in many regions of the world, including Poland. The best known exercise of this sort is the one published by Nature in 1997, where an attempt was made to estimate the global economic value of annual ecosystem services. Numerous subsequent studies have allowed for much more accurate assessments. Consequently, researchers addressing valuation problems have an extensive accumulated research experience to rely on.;
  Wydanie współfinansowane ze środków Miasta Łodzi w ramach zadania “Współpraca z wyższymi uczelniami” – umowa 100/03/2014
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by University of Łódź, 2015
• Date:
  2015.09.07;
  2015
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  “Towards a green economy. From ideas to practice”, ed. M. Burchard-Dziubińska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015;
• Subject:
  ecosystem services;
  valuation techniques
• Identifier:
  T. Żylicz, An economist looks at ecosystem services, [w:] Towards a green economy. From ideas to practice, ed. M. Burchard-Dziubińska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015, s. 11–29.;
  978-83-7969-622-2;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/11724 ;
  978-83-7969-623-9
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  text