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cje ›› 2003, Vol. ›› Issue (6): 77-80.

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Discussion on the conversion from ecosystem services to marketplaces

CHEN Yuanquan, GAO Wangsheng   

  1. Regional Agriculture Research and Development Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China
  • Received:2002-11-24 Revised:2003-01-08 Online:2003-12-10

Abstract: Ecosystem services are basic for human living, and their values are very huge. However, present valuation on ecosystem services are based on hypothetical market. How to develop realistic market for ecosystem services, convert value of ecosystem services to marketplace, is more essential for environmental conservation and regional economic development. In this paper, we firstly developed a concept of conversion, which was defined as the value of ecosystem services when accessing to marketplaces(Va)through developing realistic market. Conversion rate(Cr)was the proportion of values that could be accepted by marketplaces in the gross values(Vg). Then, we analyzed the conversion rate of ecosystem services values in different world and in China.

Key words: Landscape, Isolation, Type divergence, Nearest neighbor index, Dispersion index

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