Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 The Meaning of Value and Use of Economic Valuation in the Environmental Policy Decision-Making Process; 5 3 Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems; 6 4 Methods of Nonmarket Valuation; 7 5 Translating Ecosystem Functions to the Value of Ecosystem Services: Case Studies; 8 6 Judgement, Uncertainty, and Valuation; 9 7 Ecosystem Valuation: Synthesis and Future Directions; 10 Appendix A: Summary of Related NRC Reports; 11 Appendix B: Household Production Function Models; 12 Appendix C: Production Function Models; 13 Appendix D: Committee and Staff Biographical Information

About the Author

Committee on Assessing and Valuing the the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council