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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab8ec2
	Are biodiversity losses valued differently when they are caused by human activities? A meta-analysis of the non-use valuation literature
	Nobel A.; Lizin S.; Brouwer R.; Bruns S.B.; Stern D.I.; Malina R.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:7
英文摘要	Many countries committed to climate action by adopting the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. This study synthesizes 40 years of scientific evidence of what may be an important benefit of these commitments: the non-use value of biodiversity conservation. The synthesis investigates whether biodiversity values can be integrated into climate change damage estimates based on non-use valuation studies of different threats to biodiversity. In the absence of estimates of public willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change on biodiversity, we synthesize non-use values for biodiversity conservation from stated preference studies that account for a heterogeneous set of biodiversity threats. We test whether biodiversity non-use values are affected by the threats that policies aim to address, be it human activities or other threats. We estimate meta-regression models in which we explain the variation in these non-use values by accounting for the observed heterogeneity in good, methodology, sample, and context characteristics. We estimate meta-regression models using 159 observations from 62 publications. The models suggest that non-use values for biodiversity conservation addressing human impacts may be larger than those addressing other threats. We also find that non-use values are generally not sensitive to which biodiversity indicators, habitat types, or taxonomic groups are valued. We predict that the mean annual WTP for avoiding human-caused biodiversity losses ranges from 0.2 to 0.4% of GDP per capita. Our findings suggest that state-of-the-art climate change damage functions in integrated assessment models may underestimate actual damage costs because they do not incorporate the premium that the public is willing to pay to avoid human-caused biodiversity losses. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	biodiversity; climate change; meta-analysis; non-use values; willingness-to-pay
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Biodiversity; Climate models; Conservation; Damage detection; Forestry; Regression analysis; Anthropogenic climate changes; Biodiversity conservation; Biodiversity indicators; Biodiversity threats; Biodiversity values; Integrated assessment models; Scientific evidence; Stated-preference studies; Climate change; anthropogenic effect; biodiversity; climate change; environmental economics; global perspective; habitat type; human activity; international agreement; literature review; meta-analysis; willingness to pay
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153930
作者单位	Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Martelarenlaan 42, Hasselt, 3500, Belgium; Department of Economics, Water Institute, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue WestON, Canada; Department of Economics, University of Göttingen, Humboldtallee 3, Göttingen, 37073, Germany; Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, 132 Lennox Crossing, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia; Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States; Department of Environmental Economics, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nobel A.,Lizin S.,Brouwer R.,et al. Are biodiversity losses valued differently when they are caused by human activities? A meta-analysis of the non-use valuation literature[J],2020,15(7).
APA	Nobel A.,Lizin S.,Brouwer R.,Bruns S.B.,Stern D.I.,&Malina R..(2020).Are biodiversity losses valued differently when they are caused by human activities? A meta-analysis of the non-use valuation literature.Environmental Research Letters,15(7).
MLA	Nobel A.,et al."Are biodiversity losses valued differently when they are caused by human activities? A meta-analysis of the non-use valuation literature".Environmental Research Letters 15.7(2020).