ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1546844
Assessing the Value of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes: Evidence from Tai'an City, China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Qilu University of Technology, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Jinan, China
- 2Ecology Institute of Shandong Academy of Science (China-Japan Friendly Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, China
- 3Shandong Technology Innovation Center of Carbon Neutrality, Jinan, China
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Cultural ecosystem services(CES) refer to the intangible benefits provided by ecosystems to enhance the quality of human life. How to account for the value of CES has become an important research topic in the sustainable development of ecosystems. The establishment of a system of indicators and methodologies for CES both improves comprehensive ecosystem assessments and facilitates scientific decision-making, and is essential for realizing synergies between ecological protection and economic and social development. Based on the existing accounting framework of cultural service value at home and abroad, this study constructs a more scientific and perfect indicator system of cultural service value, including four indicators: tourism and recuperation, leisure and recreation, landscape value-added and scientific research and education. research and education. Based on the four ecological and economic evaluation methods of travel costs act, time-cost method, market value approach and results-based approach, the cultural service value accounting model is optimized, and a new set of scientific research and education index value accounting model is established. Applying the indicator system and accounting model constructed in this study, the quantity of value of cultural services in Tai'an City in 2022 totaled 5.306 billion CNY, which verified the feasibility of the indicator system and accounting model. Based on the accounting results, the study proposes a path to realize the value of cultural services in Tai'an. The results of this study can provide research references for the accounting and realization of ecological product value in different cities.
Keywords: Cultural ecosystem services, cultural services indicator system, Accounting model, accounting boundary, scientific research and education, Value realization path, Tai'an City
Received: 19 Dec 2024; Accepted: 17 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Xu, Zhao, Shao and Yan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Teng Zhao, zt2022tt@163.com
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