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Melanesia’s oceans are worth at least US$5.4 billion, but are under increasing threat.
Current land-use patterns could see the value of ‘ecosystem services’ – the natural processes that sustain life – plummet by mid-century. But with the right policies we can turn this trend around.
The presidential candidates should be talking about exploring and cataloguing our biosphere, which holds vital clues for how humanity should navigate the future.
Cape York’s ecosystems are worth as much as the Queensland economy.
Invasive species cause some $120 billion in damages across North America yearly – and that’s just direct costs. A study of one species in one Wisconsin lake indicates the real toll is much higher.
Study shows mangrove forests along desert coasts have potential to lock up large amounts of carbon and buffer against rising seas.
The world must embrace an economy where people and the planet are what matters the most.
We should value even the tiniest insects that have no impact on our lives.
With a future of droughts looming for the US West, Utah’s Wasatch watershed offers a good model that combines conservation with nature-based recreation.
The notions of “natural capital” and “ecosystem services” try to highlight the value of nature. But but by putting dollar figures on nature do we actually devalue it?
They might keep the environment clean and healthy but most species are in steep decline.
Listing the value of bees, beavers and others on the pages of the world’s financial press helps to show that ecosystems deliver benefits worth staggering amounts of money - yet we scarcely keep track of it.
Should conservationists ‘sell’ the value of nature by focusing on the ecosystem services nature provides people? Surveys show this may be the wrong tack.
Forests, wetlands, wildlife, waterways all provide valuable services to society. Would we take better conserve natural resources if we paid for these ecosystem services?
The NCRIS-funded Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) benefits pastoralists, business, tourism and Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. Cutting it will hurt them all.
Is it worth trying to put a price on the natural world, when things like water and food are priceless? Yes, says Paul Sutton - without knowing the value of the environment, we might not value it at all.
The Conversation organised a public question-and-answer session on Reddit in which James Dyke, a lecturer in Complex System Simulation, discussed planetary boundaries and whether global industrialised…
Journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot recently wrote a powerful polemic against the concepts of ecosystem services and natural capital, arguing that they were leading us on a neoliberal “road…
Criticism of sport hunting nearly always focuses on whether hunting is cruel or not. A good example was provided by the recent controversy surrounding Melissa Bachmann, a keen hunter and television personality…
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Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Denver
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Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Affiliate Full Professor of Environmental & Societal Futures and Conservation Biology, University of Washington, Bothell
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Associate Professor at the Fenner School, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Zoology, University of Tasmania
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience & Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Ecological Economics, UCL
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation, Professor of Biology, Chair of Department of Biology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor, The University of Queensland
