Miestų gamtinės ekosistemos kultūrinės paslaugos ir jų vertinimo aspektai
| Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|
Balvočiūtė, Rasa | |
| Date |
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2022 |
Straipsnyje aptariama gamtinės ekosistemos paslaugų klasifikacija, išskiriant kultūrines paslaugas ir jų svarbą miesto gyventojams bei bendruomenėms. Remiantis aktualiais moksliniais tyrimais nagrinėjamigamtinės ekosistemos miestuose teikiamų kultūrinių paslaugų vertinimo metodai bei piniginio ir nepiniginio vertinimo aspektai. Keturiuose Lietuvos miestuose atliktas empirinis tyrimas parodė skirtingų tyrimo metodų derinimo galimybes vertinant gamtinės ekosistemos kultūrines paslaugas.
Services of the natural ecosystem in the cities supply benefits for people and communities in every possible way by direct and not direct interactions between nature and people. The benefit of these services for human wellbeing are associated with various values as well as emotional, educational, inspirational values, aesthetic pictures, close connections with places and the landscape, cultural heritage and recreation, ecotourism etc. The evaluation of cultural services of the natural ecosystem in the cities is problematic because of their multidimensional origin –often the same subject of natural ecosystem supplies not only the cultural services, but other services e.g. supplyof resources and regulation as well. There is significant dominance of not direct and not consumption values. There are few research papers focused on the value research of cultural services of the natural ecosystem in the cities, but a limited number of methods such as representative market price, travels costs, hedonistic costs and other quantitative research methods are applied. These methods, if financial information is available, enable accurate estimates of the expenses of providing these services, but to estimate their benefits is complicated. Existence values, which cultural services are supplying and their not material origin demand to apply another, not monetary evaluation methods. Urban residents and communities can have different points of view and demands relative to these values, therefore is it necessary to investigate these demands applying the methods of telling of priorities and qualitative research with the aim to evaluate cultural services of natural ecosystems in the cities. The monetaryevaluation of these services is actually for the establishment of a primary data basis for more detailed evaluation in future, when a bigger number of urban residents and communities and their representatives will be included in the research.