MEASURES
OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
- EXAMPLES
Value
Types of Use
Measures of Socio-economic
Consequences: Examples
Non-use/
bequest
Option to
use
in future
Pure non-use
Loss of potential uses – estimated
future
value of commercial fishery
Loss of symbolic or cultural value –
decrease in
population of symbolic species during past
5 years
Use
Direct
Consumption
by
local people
Production
activities
Indirect uses
Loss of recreation opportunities
– size of area unsuitable for swimming and
other
water-based activities, frequency of
occurrence
Loss of tradable commodities (e.g.
fish)
that can be sustainably harvested – reduction
in
annual catch of specified commercial species
Negative social changes associated
with the impairment or loss of above
direct uses
–
number of jobs lost, reduction in local GDP,
number of individuals migrated in last
year