Title: Valuing ecosystem services within the territorial development approach: the ecosystem services basket in the Karaburun Peninsula (Turkey)

Authors: Heval Yildirim; Mélanie Requier-Desjardins; Hélène Rey-Valette; Bernard Pecqueur

Addresses: Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, VCA4D Project Agrinatura, Central Avenue, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TB, UK ' Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (MAIM), UMR SENS 3191 Route de Mende, 34093 Montpellier, France ' Faculty of Economics, University of Montpellier, Avenue Raymond Dugrand, CS79606, 34960 Montpellier, France ' University of Grenoble Alpes, PACTE, France

Abstract: Our research aims to combine qualities from both of the ecosystem services (ES) and territorial development research communities. We will develop and test an operational research framework based on a new concept, the ES basket, and demonstrate the relevance of developing a non-monetary valuation approach based on multi-criteria indicators and perceptions. Our scope is to better characterise the potential valuation of agricultural ES through emblematic products. The ES basket aims at facilitating the recognition of ES through these products, and consequently collective action and the appropriation of changes towards better sustainability in agriculture. This methodological framework has been applied to a rural territory, the Karaburun Peninsula (Turkey), where ES baskets have been developed through the farming of two emblematic products, olives and narcissus. Our results may help identify the perspectives of territorial development and the supporting policies to be implemented for the valuation of ES baskets.

Keywords: ecosystem services basket; territorial development; rent; perception; governance; emblematic product; Karaburun Peninsula; Turkey.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSD.2023.129142

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2023 Vol.26 No.1, pp.1 - 21

Received: 27 Sep 2021
Accepted: 27 May 2022
Published online: 22 Feb 2023 *