Ecosystem Services
Types of Ecosystem Services
Regulating
Benefits from regulation of ecosystem processes
Cultural
Non-material benefits from ecosystems
Provisioning
Products from ecosystems
Carbon Retention
To estimate the amount of trees on provincial territory, we started from the “Hight Resolution Tree Cover Density 2018” satellite survey of the European Copernicus project. The information was then aggregated by surface-weighted averaging over a hexagonal cover (of radius 300 m) of the studied territory.
Carbon Tax and Price of CO2
CO2 is priced similarly to a stock on the stock exchange. Based on the ability of tree species to capture it, it is possible to estimate an economic value for the area under study
Economic value trees
in Rome’s municipalities – CO2
in Rome’s municipalities – CO2
Mitigation
Trees also help to substantially reduce the pollution produced by our heating and cooling systems.
Building on this discussion, using the price of m^3 gas and kWh and cross-referencing it with the ability of each of the tree species considered to reduce pollution, we estimated an additional economic value for winter and one for summer.
Estimated cost of gas saved in winter
estimated cost of energy saved in summer
Cultural Ecosystem Services
