Value

The worth of environmental assets. Categories of environmental values include: 

• direct-use values – goods and services directly consumed by users (e.g. food or medicinal products) 
• indirect-use values – indirect benefits arising from ecological systems (e.g. climate regulation) 
• non-use values (e.g. benevolence) 
• intrinsic value (i.e. environmental assets have a worth of their own regardless of usefulness to humans).