This chapter of the Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research book series demonstrates applications of the InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) tool in data-deficient countries where UN Environment is currently implementing ecosystem-based field interventions to reduce disaster risk.
This case study applies a contingent valuation approach to estimate how households value different multi-purpose infrastructure (grey or green) for managing flood risk and water pollution. It considers the case of the Gorla water park located north of Milan, in the Lombardy Region of Italy.
This report provides guidance on seeking information that supports the integration of ecosystem services into policy and public management.
This case study proposes a replicable methodology that can be used to identify and map green infrastructure elements at the landscape level, based on the notions of ecological connectivity, multi-functionality of ecosystems, and maximisation of benefits both for humans and for natural conservation. The method is applied in a continental scale analysis covering the EU-27 territory, taking into account the delivery of eight regulating and maintenance ecosystem services and the requirements of large mammals’ populations.
This study examines how ecosystem services can be valued and mapped and presents a case study for Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
This case study combines a documentary‐historical method with a value‐critical approach to analyse Mongolia's social policy response to poverty.
This paper reports on the findings of the Southern Palawan Pilot Ecosystem Account in the Philippines, which follows a standardized system called the System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA) that ensures comparability, both nationally and internationally, and consistency with regularly produced economic statistics. Therefore, ecosystem accounts can be used to monitor trends in natural capital as well as the enforcement of resource management policies.
This paper discusses how best to take into account impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services in cost-benefit analyses.
This case study compiles and synthesises data on marine ecosystem services to help identify the key ecosystem values of the Northern Mozambique Channel (NMC) region, one of the world’s outstanding terrestrial and marine biodiversity areas and a biological reservoir for the entire coastal area of East Africa.
This cost-benefit analysis study was conducted within the CITYWATER project, which aimed to promote the implementation of water protection actions to improve the state of the local waters and the Baltic Sea. It consists of five case studies representing differing measures. The results show that investments in infrastructure such as wastewater treatment plants and port reception facilities, as well as in natural solutions such as stormwater wetland and agricultural buffer zones, result in significant reductions in nutrient loads.