TEEB Manual for Cities

The TEEB Manual for Cities: Ecosystem Services in Urban ManagementCity of Cape Town Ecosystem Services Valuation Exercise (continued)City of Cape TownIn order to make a business case for the City of Cape Town’s ecosystem services, the economic values of biodiversityneeded to be determined.Consultants started with a literaturereview on ecosystem services (ES)and best practices to evaluate ES,and consulted individual valuationstudies that had already beendone in the city. The purposeand required outcomes weredetermined at the outset of thestudy, i.e. that the economic valuesof Cape Town’s ecosystem serviceswere needed to make a businesscase for biodiversity within the citymanagement and throughout therelevant line functions. the valueof ecosystem services from ananthropogenic perspective werestudied, and values that werepurely ecological or that wereindependent of humans, which arealso clearly important, were notconsidered in this specific study.Source: De Wit and van Zyl 2011;De Wit et al. 2009.Urban Managers are faced with reconciling competing needs for land by a growing population - as here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Augustin Berghöfer21