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Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development, 2021, 10 (29): 45-50
UDC 502.33:330.131
JEL CLASSIFICATION: Q50, Q57
DOI: 10.37100/2616-7689.2021.10(29).6
Valentyna Kolmakova
Candidate of Economic Sciences,
Public Institution «Institute of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine»
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-7351
ORGANIZATION OF METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE STATE OF ECOSYSTEM ASSETS OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES RELATED TO WATER
Abstract: The purpose of the article is to substantiate scientific approaches to streamlining methods for assessing the state of ecosystem assets of territorial communities related to water, from the standpoint of sustainable nature management on an ecosystem basis. The modern scientific developments on estimation of cost of ecosystem services connected with water, are resulted in the leading international documents are investigated. The peculiarities of application of the methodological approach of ZEC (general economic value) are revealed, which provides taking into account both the real characteristics of the actual use of ecosystem services related to water and the potential (hidden) characteristics of their non-use. It is determined that the most promising in the process of assessing ecosystem services related to water may be the use of methods such as: "market" prices; normative; cost transfer; benefit transfer, scenario development method, subjective assessments. It is emphasized that these methods can be applied both separately and in certain combinations (combinatorics), due to the need to take into account the specifics of ecosystem services produced by ecosystem assets and the impact of integration processes within the ecosystem interaction of territorial spatial formations. In this context, the possibility of applying the concept of ZEC to assess ecosystem services related to water, on the example of the village of Semenivka Blagodatnensky united territorial community of Pervomaisky district of Mykolayiv region according to the author's methodology and formalized them using several methods. Further research has prospects in the following areas: formation of a comprehensive system approach to streamlining the methods of cost measurement of water-related ecosystem assets; development and introduction of effective methodological approaches to the assessment of ecosystem assets, which are based on the use of combinatorics of possible assessment methods, which are selected in accordance with the characteristics of the local territorial water resource potential.
Key words: ecosystem asset, estimation methods, territorial community, water resources, ordering, combinatorics.
Language version: Ukrainian
References
1. Environmental Performanse Index. (2020). Retrieved from https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2020/component/epi [in English].
2. GEF Guidance Documents to Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services in IW Projects. (2017). Retrieved from https://iwlearn.net/resolveuid/0ffc8834-af39-488a-852a-4348fee97b85 [in English].
3. Zakorchevna, N. (2019). Otsenka ekosystemnykh usluh v basseine Nyzhneho Dnestra [Assessment of ecosystem services in the Lower Dniester basin] Retrieved from https://dniester-commission.com/wp-content/ uploads/2019/07/ Ecosystem-services-in-Dniester-wetlands_fin_Rus-Final.pdf [in Ukrainian].
4. United Nations (2007). Economic Commission for Europe, Recommendations on Payments for Ecosystem Services in Integrated Water Resources Management. New York. Retrieved from http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=11663 [in English].
5. Rukovodstvo po ekonomycheskoi otsenke ekosystemnykh usluh, sviazannykh s vodnymy resursamy [Guidelines for the Economic Valuation of Water-Related Ecosystem Services] (2013). Almaty, Ost‐XXI vek [in Russian].
6. Degtyar, N.V. (2012) Suchasni metody ekonomichnoi otsinky ekosystemnykh posluh [Modern methods of economic assessment of ecosystem services] Efektyvna ekonomika, 2 Retrieved from http: //www.economy. nayka.com.ua /?op=1&z=959 [in Ukrainian].
7. Tikhonova, T. (2016). Ekosystemnye usluhy: rol v rehyonalnoi ekonomyke y podkhody k otsenke [Ecosystem Services: Role in the Regional Economy and Approaches to Valuation] Yzvestyia Komy nauchnoho tsentra UrO RAN, 3(27), 134–143 Retrieved from https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ekosistemnye-uslugi-rol-v-regionalnoy-ekonomike-i-podhody-k-otsenke/viewer [in Russian].
8. Rosenberg, A.G. (2014). Otsenky ekosystemnykh usluh dlia terrytoryy Samarskoi oblasty [Estimates of ecosystem services for the territory of the Samara region]. Povolzhskyi ekolohycheskyi zhurnal, 1, 139–145 [in Russian]. 9. Costanza, R et al. (2017). Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? Ecosystem Services. V. 28, Part A, 1-16. Retrieved from ghttps://www.robertcostanza.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017_J_Costanza-et-al.-20yrs.-EcoServices.pdf [in English].
10. Kolmakova, V.M. (2021). Zastosuvannia kombinatoryky metodiv otsiniuvannia ekosystemnykh aktyviv terytorialnykh hromad, poviazanykh iz vodoiu [Stagnation of combinatorics of methods for assessing ecosystem assets in territorial communities that are tied from water] World science: problems, prospects and innovations. Proceedings of the 11th International scientific and practical conference. Perfect Publishing. Toronto, Canada, 233–237. Retrieved from https://sci-conf.com.ua/xi-mezhdunarodnaya-nauchno-prakticheskaya-konferentsiya-world-science-problems-prospects-and-innovations-14-16-iyulya-2021-goda-toronto-kanada-arhiv [in English].
Article publication date: 2021
Date of online version: 2021
UDC 502.33:330.131
JEL CLASSIFICATION: Q50, Q57
DOI: 10.37100/2616-7689.2021.10(29).6
Valentyna Kolmakova
Candidate of Economic Sciences,
Public Institution «Institute of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine»
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-7351
ORGANIZATION OF METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE STATE OF ECOSYSTEM ASSETS OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES RELATED TO WATER
Abstract: The purpose of the article is to substantiate scientific approaches to streamlining methods for assessing the state of ecosystem assets of territorial communities related to water, from the standpoint of sustainable nature management on an ecosystem basis. The modern scientific developments on estimation of cost of ecosystem services connected with water, are resulted in the leading international documents are investigated. The peculiarities of application of the methodological approach of ZEC (general economic value) are revealed, which provides taking into account both the real characteristics of the actual use of ecosystem services related to water and the potential (hidden) characteristics of their non-use. It is determined that the most promising in the process of assessing ecosystem services related to water may be the use of methods such as: "market" prices; normative; cost transfer; benefit transfer, scenario development method, subjective assessments. It is emphasized that these methods can be applied both separately and in certain combinations (combinatorics), due to the need to take into account the specifics of ecosystem services produced by ecosystem assets and the impact of integration processes within the ecosystem interaction of territorial spatial formations. In this context, the possibility of applying the concept of ZEC to assess ecosystem services related to water, on the example of the village of Semenivka Blagodatnensky united territorial community of Pervomaisky district of Mykolayiv region according to the author's methodology and formalized them using several methods. Further research has prospects in the following areas: formation of a comprehensive system approach to streamlining the methods of cost measurement of water-related ecosystem assets; development and introduction of effective methodological approaches to the assessment of ecosystem assets, which are based on the use of combinatorics of possible assessment methods, which are selected in accordance with the characteristics of the local territorial water resource potential.
Key words: ecosystem asset, estimation methods, territorial community, water resources, ordering, combinatorics.
Language version: Ukrainian
References
1. Environmental Performanse Index. (2020). Retrieved from https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2020/component/epi [in English].
2. GEF Guidance Documents to Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services in IW Projects. (2017). Retrieved from https://iwlearn.net/resolveuid/0ffc8834-af39-488a-852a-4348fee97b85 [in English].
3. Zakorchevna, N. (2019). Otsenka ekosystemnykh usluh v basseine Nyzhneho Dnestra [Assessment of ecosystem services in the Lower Dniester basin] Retrieved from https://dniester-commission.com/wp-content/ uploads/2019/07/ Ecosystem-services-in-Dniester-wetlands_fin_Rus-Final.pdf [in Ukrainian].
4. United Nations (2007). Economic Commission for Europe, Recommendations on Payments for Ecosystem Services in Integrated Water Resources Management. New York. Retrieved from http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=11663 [in English].
5. Rukovodstvo po ekonomycheskoi otsenke ekosystemnykh usluh, sviazannykh s vodnymy resursamy [Guidelines for the Economic Valuation of Water-Related Ecosystem Services] (2013). Almaty, Ost‐XXI vek [in Russian].
6. Degtyar, N.V. (2012) Suchasni metody ekonomichnoi otsinky ekosystemnykh posluh [Modern methods of economic assessment of ecosystem services] Efektyvna ekonomika, 2 Retrieved from http: //www.economy. nayka.com.ua /?op=1&z=959 [in Ukrainian].
7. Tikhonova, T. (2016). Ekosystemnye usluhy: rol v rehyonalnoi ekonomyke y podkhody k otsenke [Ecosystem Services: Role in the Regional Economy and Approaches to Valuation] Yzvestyia Komy nauchnoho tsentra UrO RAN, 3(27), 134–143 Retrieved from https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ekosistemnye-uslugi-rol-v-regionalnoy-ekonomike-i-podhody-k-otsenke/viewer [in Russian].
8. Rosenberg, A.G. (2014). Otsenky ekosystemnykh usluh dlia terrytoryy Samarskoi oblasty [Estimates of ecosystem services for the territory of the Samara region]. Povolzhskyi ekolohycheskyi zhurnal, 1, 139–145 [in Russian]. 9. Costanza, R et al. (2017). Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? Ecosystem Services. V. 28, Part A, 1-16. Retrieved from ghttps://www.robertcostanza.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017_J_Costanza-et-al.-20yrs.-EcoServices.pdf [in English].
10. Kolmakova, V.M. (2021). Zastosuvannia kombinatoryky metodiv otsiniuvannia ekosystemnykh aktyviv terytorialnykh hromad, poviazanykh iz vodoiu [Stagnation of combinatorics of methods for assessing ecosystem assets in territorial communities that are tied from water] World science: problems, prospects and innovations. Proceedings of the 11th International scientific and practical conference. Perfect Publishing. Toronto, Canada, 233–237. Retrieved from https://sci-conf.com.ua/xi-mezhdunarodnaya-nauchno-prakticheskaya-konferentsiya-world-science-problems-prospects-and-innovations-14-16-iyulya-2021-goda-toronto-kanada-arhiv [in English].
Article publication date: 2021
Date of online version: 2021