Abstract

Biodiversity estimation of Sendai City using InVEST
Track: Environmental Management
Authors: Sachiko Kikuchi

In VEST is a family of tools to map and value the goods and services from nature which are essential for sustaining and fullfilling human life. Sendai city was visited by the Great East Japan Earthquake. It is said that the earthquake had implications for human life as well as natural ecosystem. So, we estimated to grasp the change of the natural ecosystem of Sendai city by InVEST. Using the natural ecosystem estimation, we will be going to do the economic evaluation of the environment of Sendai city.