ESVD PROJECTS
Economic and monetary information on ecosystem services is important in many ways: It can help to demonstrate the welfare effect of investing in nature conservation and landscape restoration, it is essential in attempts to internalize externalities in cost-benefit analysis of land use changes and business models, and it is increasingly used in natural capital accounting and national conservation strategies. ESVD has worked on multiple projects with multiple partners.
CURRENT PROJECTS
FSD partakes in the 5 year SELINA project (EU Horizon grant) consisting of 50 partner organisation throughout Europe with the aim to uptake ecosystem services in decision-making.
FSD supports the German Environmental Agency in its project ValuGaps, in identifying benefit transfer functions that are relevant for use in Germany, to make them publicly available in the value transfer tool and to improve the value transfer tool.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
FSD partakes in the 5 year SELINA project (EU Horizon grant) consisting of 50 partner organisation throughout Europe with the aim to uptake ecosystem services in decision-making.
This scoping study examines how combining ESVD’s monetary ecosystem service valuations with ENCORE’s qualitative impact and dependency data could better integrate nature into financial and policy decision-making.
FSD conducts a social cost-benefit analysis of river-based plastic interception in three cities, quantifying how plastic pollution affects 16 ecosystem services and the economic benefits of reducing it. Using mixed valuation methods and ecosystem service modeling, it estimates both market and non-market impacts across different scenarios.
In collaboration with the Ocean Cleanup we analyse relevant ecosystem services values affected by plastic pollution in marine and coastal systems and the effects of plastic pollution removal on these services.
We have actively engaged in a collaborative effort with FAO, making substantial contributions to the data collection and analysis of The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration (TEER) initiative.
LNV had supported a new update of the ESVD, adding a total of 1,253 values, reaching almost 9400 value estimates in the ESVD, while also introducing new functionalities for ESVD.net and implementing an automated review process.
In collaboration with the Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) we conducted an assessment to value the ecosystem services of the Wielewaal in monetary terms.
We collaborated with the FAO on their ABC-tool by including the ESVD monetary values for the biodiversity module. Included over 1300 new values.
In our second project in collaboration with the ASN Bank, we continue our collective effort to measure the impact of 2 investments of the ASN Biodiversity Fund on the economic value of ecosystem services, thereby linking impacts on nature to investment risks and opportunities.
For the ASN Bank, we piloted the use of monetary valuation for risk assessment in their biodiversity fund.
WORK WITH US
Interested in a project?
Contact us via esvd@fsd.nl.