1. Ecosystem Services Partnership | www.es-partnership.org | info@es-partnership.org | 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2014 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Session 30 ‘Value integration in science and policy’ Discussion

2. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Question 1: What different types of values were assessed ? How were value types decided upon and classified? Social/socio-cultural values; monetary values; various types of values; mostly TEV types; Only one answer on second part: “no preselection of types”.

3. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Question 2: Which methods and data were used to assess values? Were these adequate? (different types of) Interviews - Document analysis – WTP- Benefit transfer – Revealed or stated valuation methods – Mapping and modelling - Integrated Bayesian networks – … no one answered second question..

4. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Question 3: Which values were not (adequately) considered ? why not? “Non-use values are particularly not well addressed in WWF’s report” “Economic values. We did not consider economic valuation relevant” Second question: no reason given. …

5. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Question 4: (How) were the different values aggregated and presented and if not why not? Single values, table of values, maps, summed up number aggregation, no aggregation, aggregation via framework “Because the focus was on evaluating marginal values of policy decisions”.

6. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good ! Question 5: What are essential aspects for an integrated valuation framework for decision support? “9 integrated valuation criteria”, “unravel which natural assets are more important for society, both in terms of existence values of species and landscapes and use values of ecosystem services” “summarized standards for integrated ES valuation” “Value mapping should be done together with all key stakeholders” “the stated monetary value is the best one to compare”.

7. 7th Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership 8-12 September 2013 Costa Rica Local action for the common good !