Recreation has been an important policy impetus for the creation of protected area networks worldwide. This paper reviews valuation techniques for recreation ecosystem services, a subset of cultural services provided by New South Wales national parks, guided by recent conceptual developments and applications in the context of the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting revision process. Drawing from an extensive population survey on national park visitation and existing welfare valuation work, we apply eight different valuation methods suitable to environmental-economic accounting. Methods are compared using four criteria: their degree of conceptual fit, their information cost in a range of contexts, their degree of spatial explicitness and their sensitivity to assumptions or exogenous factors. We offer a pragmatic, applied perspective on recent conceptual advances in environmental economic accounting, including a discussion of the relative merits of production versus consumption approaches. The results of this analysis will be used in statewide and regional ecosystem services accounts in New South Wales. They will subsequently be used to estimate national park asset values and to monitor the productivity of government investment in the New South Wales National Parks Estate.

娱乐活动一直是在全球范围内建立保护区网络的重要政策推动力。本文以最近在 SEEA 生态系统核算修订过程中的概念发展和应用为指导，回顾了休闲生态系统服务的估值技术，这是新南威尔士州国家公园提供的文化服务的一个子集。根据对国家公园参观和现有福利评估工作的广泛人口调查，我们应用了八种适用于环境经济核算的不同评估方法。方法使用四个标准进行比较：它们的概念拟合程度、它们在一系列上下文中的信息成本、它们的空间明确程度以及它们对假设或外生因素的敏感性。我们提供务实、对环境经济核算的最新概念进展的应用观点，包括对生产方法与消费方法的相对优点的讨论。该分析的结果将用于新南威尔士州的全州和区域生态系统服务账户。随后，它们将用于估算国家公园资产价值并监测政府对新南威尔士州国家公园地产的投资效率。