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ReviewAmbio2023

Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation.

Hua Zheng, Tong Wu, Zhiyun Ouyang, Stephen Polasky, Mary Ruckelshaus, Lijuan Wang, Yi Xiao, Xiaolong Gao, Cong Li, Gretchen C Daily

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Review in Ambio, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Hua ZhengState Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China. zhenghua@rcees.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2301-1744
Tong WuNatural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Zhiyun OuyangState Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China.
Stephen PolaskyDepartment of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
Mary RuckelshausNatural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Lijuan WangState Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China.
Yi XiaoState Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China.
Xiaolong GaoState Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100085, China.
Cong LiSchool of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No.74 West Yanta Road, Yanta District, Xi'an, 710061, China.
Gretchen C DailyNatural Capital Project, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.

Funding

Key Technologies Research and Development Program 2022YFF1301800National Natural Science Foundation of China 41925005National Natural Science Foundation of China 72022014
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The large-scale loss of ecosystem assets around the world, and the resultant reduction in the provision of nature's benefits to people, underscores the urgent need for better metrics of ecological performance as well as their integration into decision-making. Gross ecosystem product (GEP) is a measure of the aggregate monetary value of final ecosystem-related goods and services in a specific area and for a given accounting period. GEP accounting captures the use of many ecosystem services in production processes across the economy, which are then valued in terms of their benefits to society. GEP has five key elements that make it transparent, trackable, and readily understandable: (1) a focus on nature's contributions to people; (2) the measurement of ecosystem assets as stocks and ecosystem services as flows; (3) the quantification of ecosystem service use; (4) an understanding of ecosystem service supply chains through value realization; and (5) the disaggregation of benefits across groups. Correspondingly, a series of innovative policies based on GEP have been designed and implemented in China. The theoretical and practical lessons provided by these experiences can support continued policy innovation for green and inclusive development around the world.

Indexed as

Conservation of Natural ResourcesEcosystemChinaHumansEcosystem accountingEcosystem assetsEcosystem servicesGross ecosystem productNature’s contribution to peopleValuing nature

Identifiers

PMID37943417
PMCPMC10654296

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