Biodiv Sci ›› 1998, Vol. 06 ›› Issue (3): 180-185.  DOI: 10.17520/biods.1998027

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The economic value of biodiversity

GUO Zhong-Wei, LI Dian-Muo   

  1. Institute of Zoology , the Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing  100080
  • Received:1997-08-22 Revised:1997-12-18 Online:1998-08-20 Published:1998-08-20

Abstract: Conceptually , the total economic value of resource consists of its use value and non2use value. Use value may be broken down further into the direct use value , the indirect use value and the option value (or potential use value) . The realization ways of the use values of biodiversity are different because of the differences of useable ways. Some use values provided by biodiveristy cannot realize on the spot usually. These use values may transfer spatially by a certain of“passages”to attain to a spot where some suitable external condition are provided to realize them. That phenomenon is call as the“transfer of value of biological resource spatially”.