Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services of River and Human Well-being in Developing Countries A Research Direction

Human well-being of a country directly and indirectly depends upon ecosystem services due to several reasons. Humanity are getting wide range of benefits such as pure water, food, wood, clean air, medicine, drugs and others from ecosystems services or natural resources (i.e. land, water, forest, river, soil). The ecosystem services also include air, biota, water, forest product, livestock, soil, mineral, fuel wood, non-timber, urban forest tree and others. Aforementioned services are the fruits of nature which can be directly consumed and used in production activities to meet the human needs [1].