Report Valuing Ecosystem Services and Ecosystem Assets

This report will describe selected key issues related to monetary valuation that are not yet settled in SEEA EEA Technical Recommendations This includes the following themes i the use of simulated exchange values for goods not traded in markets ii the role and valuation of intermediate ecosystem services iii the use of maintenance cost approach as an additional indicator of value iv the implications of using different assumptions on asset life and discount rates for constructing asset accounts and v the relative importance of including in these models expected flows of ecosystem services in probabilistic terms