Abstract

The Alvarado lagoon system located in the coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico has great ecological and economic importance and its conservation is paramount from an environmental point of view given that it has various conservation categories In this study the economic valuation of two environmental services provisioning through the mangrove and fishery timber resources as well as regulation through the sequestration and storage of carbon from the mangrove The economic value obtained by the mangrove was USD ha day and for the fishing resources carried out in the lagoon a value of USD day was estimated As for the Carbon Sequestration and Storage it was USD ha day The calculation of the budget price with respect to the economic valuation of the Provisioning was USD and for the regulation price it was USD with a Total Economic Value for the service of Provision over Regulation of USD ha day

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