Cruickshank, Samantha (2017). Developing biodiversity indicators and economic valuations for created grasslands in the UK. PHD thesis, Aston University.
Abstract
The thesis is an investigation in to a quick and easy means of establishing the ecosystem service provision of a created grassland and applying an economic value to these services. Biodiversity indicators are first explored in a literature review. Common statistical techniques are then employed to identify relevant bio-indicators of created grasslands from first-hand data collected from sourced fieldwork study sites. Economic values of ecosystem service provision in grasslands are then extracted from papers sourced from a systematic review. These values, and their explanatory variables, are modelled to establish variation in economic estimates. Benchmarking figures of goal grassland ecosystem service provision are established based on theory. Crucially, a link between ecological data and economic values is ascertained. This allows an Excel model to be designed allowing users to estimate economic value of grasslands based on on-site recordings of identified bio-indicators.
Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship |
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Institution: | Aston University |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | bio-indicators ,non-market valuation,habitat creation;,biodiversity ,ecosystem services |
Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2024 08:14 |
Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2018 09:35 |
Completed Date: | 2017-02-14 |
Authors: |
Cruickshank, Samantha
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