Economic valuation of environmental liabilities: transfer of benefits to estimate the loss of ecosystem services and socio-environmental damage in Colombia

The complementary information of the economic valuation of the environmental liabilities of the extraction operations of combustible and non-combustible minerals associated with the Colombian departments of Choco, Cundinamarca, Cesar and Antioquia is presented. The benefit transfer method was implemented, the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database was used for those environmental liabilities that implied negative changes in the provision of ecosystem services; For those environmental liabilities that affected a sociocultural element, the costs associated with these, such as the generation of displacement, loss of human capital, loss of artisanal mining and family farming activities, and the generation of diseases, were estimated based on particular methods described in a detailed manner. individual next to the estimate developed, within this file.