Which Of The Following Is Not An Economic Service Provided By Forests?

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Southern forests provide a variety of critical ecosystem services, from purification of water and air to recreational opportunities for millions of people. Because many of these services are public goods with no observable market value, they are non fully accounted for in state use and policy decisions. There have been several efforts to remedy this by estimating the total value of forests in different States, with each effort including different bundles of ecosystem services and using unlike valuation methodologies. In this guide, we suggest a more consistent and theoretically sound arroyo to 1) quantifying almanac flows of ecosystem services, 2) developing a spatial catalog of the marginal values of changes in those flows, and 3) bookkeeping for the full value of ecosystem services lost or gained every bit a upshot of changes in forest ecosystems. Four chapters—on cultural services, watershed services, air quality and carbon, and provisioning of non-timber forest products—provide guidance on best practices for quantifying and estimating the values of these services as provided by forests. Skilful panels were convened to write each chapter. The guide as a whole was developed with input from the Southern Group of State Foresters and stakeholder meetings held in 2014 and 2015.

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Sills, Erin O.; Moore, Susan East.; Cubbage, Frederick West.; McCarter, Kelley D.; Holmes, Thomas P.; Mercer, D. Evan, editors. 2017.Trees at work: economic accounting for woods ecosystem services in the U.S. South. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-226. Asheville, NC: U.Due south. Department of Agriculture Woods Service, Southern Enquiry Station. 103 p.