Meta-análisis de la valoración económica de los servicios ecosistémicos en Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract: Humanity benefits from considerable ecosystem goods and services worldwide, however, these benefits are not properly valued, since many of them are considered public goods. Economic valuation is an instrument that allows the value of ecosystems to be placed in an economic context, while meta-analysis tends to be an effective method for grouping the scattered literature. The main objective of this study is to identify and analyze the available literature on the economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services in Ecuador, through a meta-analysis. In total, 115 economic values obtained from 56studies were examined. It was found that the province with the most economic valuation studies is Galapagos and the most applied methods are market price and contingent valuation.