Modelización  y valoración integrada de los  servicios ecosistémicos del Parque Mar Chiquito, Argentina

Elsa Marcela Guerrero; Mariana Zunda

Elsa Marcela Guerrero Centro de Investigaciones y estudios Ambientales (CINEA) UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS SIRES
Mariana Zunda Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Ambientales (CINEA), FCH. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

wetland, ecosystem services (ES), economic assessment, methodological integration

Abstract

The methodological integration of different values in relation to the ecosystem services (ES) is a methodological challenge to be solved. This paper aims at integrating market and cultural values associated with the ES which can be found in the Mar Chiquita Biosphere reserve in the southeast of the province of Buenos Aires.

This methodological approach allowed us to identify and assess the local benefits of the wetland, and to detect that they are equal to the budgetary allocation in social services such as health care, education, and the promotion of tourism of the homonymous municipality.