Tag: economic valuation
Economic Valuation
Economists value the environment placing a monetary value on the basis of perceived ‘goods‘ and ’bads‘ arising from changes in environmental quality or resource availability. The rationale for the economic …
The rise of a new extractivism and the plea for degrowth
By Giorgos Kallis. We thought that the “commodity frontiers”, the new mines that we dig on earth to take out the oil, gold, uranium or copper that feeds our consumer …
EJOLT Report 5: Issues in the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity
The Nagoya Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity in October 2010 had the economics of biodiversity as one of its core topics. Some weeks before the meeting, …
Issues in the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity
Ejolt Report 5: Issues in the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity EJOLT Report 5 (High resolution) for printing. Abstract After 1992 many conservation biologists thought that the use of economic instruments would be more …
