The green infrastructure valuation toolkit user guide
The green infrastructure valuation toolkit user guide
The green infrastructure valuation toolkit user guide
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Building natural value for sustainable economic development: the <strong>green</strong> <strong>infrastructure</strong> <strong>valuation</strong> <strong>toolkit</strong> <strong>user</strong> <strong>guide</strong><br />
TOOLS AVAILABLE IN THE CALCULATOR<br />
KEY EVIDENCE AND SOURCES<br />
Benefit valued Input data Tool basis<br />
Tool 3.1: Willingness to pay<br />
for view of urban <strong>green</strong><br />
space [ Quantification and<br />
monetisation require further<br />
research]<br />
Market Values<br />
N/A<br />
Scientific research<br />
N/A<br />
Benefit transfer values<br />
Tool 3.2: Increase in<br />
volunteering [/<br />
Quantification and<br />
monetisation require<br />
bespoke appraisal]<br />
Volunteering<br />
hours/organisations formed<br />
Qualitative benefit, no<br />
generally applicable<br />
monetisation tool other than<br />
monetisation of volunteer<br />
input (accepted by some<br />
funders)<br />
Urban core (public space, city park)<br />
£54,000/ha/yr<br />
Urban fringe (<strong>green</strong> belt) £889/ha/yr<br />
Urban fringe (forested land) £2,700 /ha/yr<br />
Rural (forested, amenity) £6,626 /ha/yr<br />
Natural and semi-natural land (wetlands)<br />
£6,616 ha/yr<br />
Agricultural land (extensive) £3,150 /ha/yr;<br />
Agricultural land (intensive), £103 /ha/yr<br />
Eftec (2005)<br />
£268.79 per household with a view of <strong>green</strong><br />
space including woodland per year (2003<br />
price base).<br />
Updating by Consumer Price Index uplift to<br />
2010 prices, this would equal £308.03<br />
Capitalised per household: £7,680 (2003)<br />
(in perpetuity), updated to 2010 prices<br />
£8,800.<br />
Note: Capitalised benefit over 10-year<br />
period = £2,557, over 20-year period =<br />
£4,374<br />
<strong>The</strong> social and environmental benefits of<br />
forests in Great Britain, Kenneth G. Willis,<br />
Guy Garrod, Riccardo Scarpa, Neil Powe,<br />
Andrew Lovett, Ian J. Bateman, Nick<br />
Hanley, and Douglas C. Macmillan, 2003<br />
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