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Valuing ecosystem services: a biological perspective

by Kent Holsinger on Apr 27, 2009

PowerPoint presentation for a guest lecture in ARE 4438, Valuing the Environment (University of Connecticut, 27 April 2009)

PowerPoint presentation for a guest lecture in ARE 4438, Valuing the Environment (University of Connecticut, 27 April 2009)

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Valuing ecosystem services: a biological perspective Kent Holsinger Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
What values are threatened?
National Academy of Sciences, Report in Brief (2004) Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision Making
New York City watershed Coastal wetlands/estuaries: fish production Flood control services Food production Recreational fishing
What do these examples have in common?
Why worry about biodiversity?
We need it We like it We ought to
Does economics capture non-use values?
Substitutable?
Stable preference?
Does economics capture non- consumptive values? No* *But neither does ecology
Aesthetics Ethics What kind of world do we want to live in?