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Valuation of Aghanashini Estuarine Ecosystem Goods and Services
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1Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES],
3Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP],
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: tvr@iisc.ac.in, emram.ces@courses.iisc.ac.in
Abstract
Valuation through the quantification goods and services aids
in the wise use and prudent management of an estuarine
ecosystem. The present study focusses on the valuation of
goods and services from an estuary at Aghanashini, Uttara
Kannada district, Karnataka. The provisioning services
provided by this estuary is about 11,35,847 Rs/hectare/year,
which highlights the significance of an estuarine ecosystem
in sustaining livelihood of 6000 - 7500 families. The total
economic value (provisioning, regulating, supporting and
information services) of Aghanashini is 5 million
Rs/hectare/year. This highlights the contributions by
estuarine ecosystems in sustaining the economy of the
district while supporting people’s livelihood.
Quantification of ecosystem benefits would help in evolving
appropriate strategies with the managerial decisions. This
also emphasizes the need for green GDP (Gross domestic
product) through incorporation of values of the natural
goods in the national and regional accounting to ensure the
sustainability of natural resources (water, energy, land,
etc.). In the absence of such accounting, decisions favor
environmentally degrading practices by disregarding the
societal benefits from the goods and services values of
fragile ecosystems
Citation :Ramachandra T.V, Rakhi. K.
Raj1 and Bharath H. Aithal, 2019. Valuation of
Aghanashini Estuarine Ecosystem Goods and Services, J
Biodiversity, 10(1,2): 45-58 (2019), DOI:
10.31901/24566543.2019/10.1-2.093
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Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Centre for infrastructure,
Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (C iSTUP),
Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.
E-mail : tvr@iisc.ac.in emram.ces@courses.iisc.ac.in
Tel: 91-080-22933099/23600985,
Fax: 91-080-23601428/23600085
Web: http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy
Citation:T.V. Ramachandra, Rakhi. K. Raj and Bharath H.
Aithal
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