...the $33 trillion worth of "free" deliverables provided to us by a healthy planet, including fertile soil, fresh water, breathable air, pollination, habitat, soil formation, pest control, a livable climate, and a bunch of other things we generally take for granted.He touches on the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment and a number of emerging attempts to assign economic value to ecosystem services, thereby making "externalities" into market "internalities." A great read.
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Posted 5:05 PM on 31 Mar 2005
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Don't miss Joel Makower's long and informative post on recent developments around ecosystem services:
David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/david_h_roberts.
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sandy m Posted 1:08 am
01 Apr 2005
thanks
this is fantastic. thanks for the link. other than joel's post (and tom friedman), has anyone published anything describing the emerging trend of activists/NGOs/governments reconceptualizing of natural resources in terms of economic value?
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David Roberts Posted 3:14 am
01 Apr 2005
Sandy
I'm not aware of anything systematic done on the subject, but you might find this piece interesting. It's one of many things I've kept meaning to blog on but haven't gotten around to.
www.grist.org
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makower Posted 8:53 am
01 Apr 2005
Nature's Services
The definitive work on the subject is Nature's Services, by Gretchen Daily and Katherine Ellison (Shearwater Books, 2002).
From the book jacket:
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