This deliverable describes the methodology used for the ex-ante valuation performance of NBS and the ex-ante economic valuation performance of NBS in front-runner cities: Valladolid, Liverpool, and Izmir.
The deliverable is composed by different blocks:
1. Description of the methodologies and tools for the economic valuation of the ecosystem services;
2. Explanation of the benefit transfer technique adopted for the ex-ante valuation performance of NBS in Front-runner cities;
3. Literature review of case studies of NBS economic valuation at urban level;
4. Definition of a matrix used for the ex-ante economic valuation and association of the values detected in the case studies review to the NBS planned in Front-runner cities;
5. Ex-ante economic valuation in Valladolid, Liverpool, and Izmir.