Economic valuation of ecosystem services: application of a choice experiment approach on mount Guna services, North West of Ethiopia

Abstract

1## Introduction Ecosystem services’ demand has been increasing rapidly as populations and environmental dwindling, and awareness of the community increase. Then, valuation is a precondition in managing these services (). Ecosystem provides crucial role of provision, regulation, cultural and other for numerous stakeholders involved in the surroundings. A wide range of stakeholders are overplaying on many of the ecosystem services which may leads to conflicting interests and, the over-exploitation of some services (forest, water system, biodiversity and so on) at the cost of others. This in tur