Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Economic value of protected areas via visitor mental health

  • Ralf Buckley,
  • Paula Brough,
  • Leah Hague,
  • Alienor Chauvenet,
  • Chris Fleming,
  • Elisha Roche,
  • Ernesta Sofija,
  • Neil Harris

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12631-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Parks have a previously unquantified economic value attributable to mental health, a health services value. Here, the authors proposed three methods to estimate this, and applied one of these methods to show that this value is at least US$6 trillion per annum worldwide.