The Economic Value of Forest Ecosystem Services Assessment Case Study of Hunan Province

This is a hot research issues related discipline about the economic value of forest ecosystem services assessment. This article synthesizes the domestic and foreign related research results, as use Hunan province for the study area, the use of valuation method, alternative engineering method, travel cost method and other methods, from economical, ecology and social three aspects to assess forest ecosystem 17 leadership service function value in 2007 in Hunan province. The evaluations show that the economic value of forest ecosystem comprehensive services is 558.554 billion yuan in Hunan province in 2007. It accounted ecological value for 89.96%; the economic value for 6.0%; social value accounting for 4.04%.