@article{Fleischer:264872,
      recid = {264872},
      author = {Aliza Fleischer and Daniel Felsenstein and  Michal  Lichter},
      title = {A spatially accurate method for evaluating distributional  effects of ecosystem services },
      address = {2017-11-12},
      number = {888-2017-5515},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {The value of most ecosystem services invariably slips  through national accounts. Even when these values are  estimated, they are allocated without any particular  spatial referencing. Little is known about the spatial and  distributional effects arising from changes in ecosystem  service provision. This paper estimates spatial equity in  ecosystem services provision using a dedicated data  disaggregation algorithm that allocates 'synthetic'  socioeconomic attributes to households and with accurate  geo-referencing. A GIS-based automated procedure is  operationalized for three different ecosystem in Israel. A  nonlinear function relates household location to each  ecosystem: beaches, urban parks and national parks. Benefit  measures are derived by modeling household consumer surplus  as a function of socio-economic attributes and distance  from the ecosystem. These aggregate measures are spatially  disaggregated to households. Results show that restraining  access to beaches causes a greater reduction in welfare  than restraining access to a park. Progressively, high  income households lose relatively more in welfare terms  than low income households from such action. This outcome  is reversed when distributional outcomes are measured in  terms of housing price classes. Policy implications of  these findings relate to implications for housing policies  that attempt to use new development to generate social  heterogeneity in locations proximate to ecosystem  services.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/264872},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.264872},
}