Title: Economic valuation of ecosystem services of cultural order in the 'Las Delicias' micro-basin in Bogotá

Authors: Jeniffer Gracia; Diego Rojas; David Gracia

Addresses: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá 110221, Colombia ' Local Mayor of San Cristóbal, San Cristóbal, Bogotá 110421, Colombia ' Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD, Bogotá 111511, Colombia

Abstract: The main objective of this study was to carry out an assessment of the cultural ecosystem services of the 'Las Delicias' brook, located in Chapinero, in Bogotá, Colombia, as it is one of the largest hydrographic basins of the group of streams that flow into the Salitre River from Chapinero. Therefore, it is constituted as a strategic ecosystem provider of ecosystem services; the realisation of this type of estimation is of great interest since it is a tool that contributes to the decision-making in the environmental management of the territory. The most important identified services, among others, were the regulation of the hydrological cycle, flood control, ecotourism, and landscape cultural services. Finally, through the travel cost method applied to the surveyed population, it was determined that, if there is a willingness to pay for the conservation of the stream, then the population would pay for the enjoyment and maintenance of it.

Keywords: ecosystem services; economic valuation; sustainable development.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2025.147003

International Journal of Sustainable Society, 2025 Vol.17 No.2, pp.180 - 204

Received: 04 Aug 2021
Received in revised form: 16 Jul 2022
Accepted: 26 Oct 2022
Published online: 10 Jul 2025 *

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