Green Accounting Bibliography: August 2002
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Balmford, Andrew; Bruner, Aaron; Cooper, Philip; Costanza, Robert; Farber, Stephen; Green, Rhys E.; Jenkins, Martin; Jefferiss. Paul; Jessamy, Valma; Madden, Joah; Munro, Kat; Myers, Norman; Naeem, Shahid; Paavola, Jouni; Rayment, Matthew; Rosendo, Sergio; Roughgarden, Joan; Trumper, Kate and Turner, R. Kerry. "Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature", Science 297 (5583), 9 August 2002: p. 950-953. [full text (for online subscribers of Science)]
Arguments for why natural habitats "generate marked economic benefits, which the available data suggest exeed those obtained from continued habitat conversion." The article abstract continues by saying that "We estimate that the overall benefit:cost ratio of an effective global program for the conservation of remaining wild nature is at least 100:1." This calculation is in essence a revision of Costanza et al.'s controversial 1997 Nature article.
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