Models on spatial patterns in welfare dependence on ecosystem services

The deliverable constitutes a report presenting an analysis of the determinants of reliance on selected ecosystem services in the GSME based on the household questionnaire survey data contained in the database constituting deliverable 5.1. UCPH will construct variables representing household reliance on relevant ecosystem services based on environmental income from goods and products such as fuel wood, charcoal, timber, wild fruits, vegetables, and bushmeat (as relevant depending on the data), as a proportion of total household income. Calculations rely on accounting principles devised for the PEN survey that applies an array of valuation methods to determine and validate the cash and subsistence value of environmental products that are not traded or only have thin markets (intangible values are excluded from this study). UCPH will calculate the aggregated societal value of selected ecosystem service derived income and analyses differences between wealth groups and locations. This includes specifying and estimating models to identify household and spatial (depending on data available from WP1) determinants of reliance. UCPH will combine the outcome to be presented in a report constituting deliverable 5.3.