Methods and valuation of services. Methods for monetary valuation of the grassland ecosystem services in Estonia were tested and monetary values using selected methods were calculated for 2018 (for some services the last available years data had to be selected). It was projected in grant proposal that from ecosystem provisioning services hay, fodder, meat, wool, medicines and herbs and from regulating services carbon sequestration and habitat provision would most probably be monetized and that regarding cultural and regulating services the valuations would probably be based on the investigations made by the experts involved in the project. Eventually eight ecosystem services were chosen for monetary assessment. Several of those were valued by alternative methods. Additionally the ecosystem service of provisioning of the habitats for species was discussed just theoretically. The suggestion to focus on and to carry out a more in depth research regarding nature education as an ecosystem service was given by one of the project advisers (DEFRA, Xxxxx Xxxxxx). Concepts were analysed, definition of the service was agreed and valuation and integration of the nature education ecosystem service was carried out. As a result of this experimental work the assessment of the service and the proposed methodology are described in current report. Methodology was also presented to the London Group on Environmental Accounting for discussion. The discussion was followed by the more in- depth discussions with the revisers of the UN SEEA EEA handbook as several of the issues which we tackled are important from the revision process as well, for example: how to find the share of the contribution of ecosystem from the total service value, which expenditures to include if basing the valuations on expenditures in some way, which indicators of condition would be relevant for assessing the continuing capacity of the ecosystem to supply nature education services, importance of the determining of the ecosystem service supplying areas both in the context of the single services macro assessments or the assessments of relative importance of a particular ecosystem and ecosystem type32. Overview table was provided integrating ecosystem services absolute and per ha values calculated by alternative methods by ecosystem types. Current work this year focuses on grasslands ecosystem services valuation. But as we started to carry out the valuation of the ecosystem services for this ecosystem type we realized that just some services ...
