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CC-LandStraD: Climate Change - Land Use Strategies Germany; Subproject: Economic valuation of various forestry land use options with regard to their carbon storage under different environmental conditions
Project
Project code: TI-WF-08-PID473
Contract period: 01.11.2010
- 30.10.2015
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Due to expected climate changes, forestry will have to adapt to changing growth conditions, but forestry itself also provides possibilities to impact the greenhouse gas emissions balance positively by carbon sequestration in forests. Changing environmental conditions will impact all ecosystem goods and services provided by forests and consequentially competition for the usage of various forest goods will change.
The primary goal of the forestry subproject is to analyse und assess in monetary terms climate adapted forestry and its effects on the provision and the regional distribution of forest goods and services. Within this subproject these questions will be dealt with from two different perspectives, one forest economic and one environmental economic part. The environmental economic part of the subproject will deal with the effects of carbon mitigation and climate adaptation strategies on the provision of nonmarket ecosystem goods and services (no exclusivity, no rivalry) of forests and their economic valuation.
For the monetary valuation of cultural ecosystem services of forests a random sample of the population will be interviewed nationwide. Therefore, a separate questionnaire will be developed, using stated preferences methods, i.e. choice experiments.
Economic valuation is conducted by means of a choice experiment. In a choice experiment respondents are successively presented several different alternatives with different attributes. They are then asked to choose the one that is most preferred. Using statistical methods trade-offs between single attributes of the alternatives are determined. This is also done with the price attribute, which indicates the economic value of changes of accompanying attributes.
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Agroeconomics
- Climate Change
Collaborative Project
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-IW)
Participating institutions
- University of Muenster (WWU)
- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
- Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture (TI-AK)
- Institute of Biodiversity (TI-BD)
- Institute of Rural Studies (TI-LR)
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBSR)
- Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW)