Accounting for nature's benefits: The dollar value of ecosystem services
Submitted by susan on Thu, 2012-05-10 17:33
Healthy ecosystems provide us with fertile soil, clean water, timber, and food. They reduce the spread of diseases. They protect against flooding. Worldwide, they regulate atmospheric concentrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide. They moderate climate. Without these and other “ecosystem services,” we’d all perish.
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