Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature

By A. Balmford, A. Bruner, Philip Cooper, Robert Costanza, S. Farber, Rhys E. Green, M. Jenkins, Paul Jefferiss, Valma Jessamy, J. Madden and 9 more. Science, 2002

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How Much is that Ecosystem in the Window? The One with the Bio-diverse Trail (2008, background): “Some values may be absent from the interests of sentient beings while others should be discounted e.g. pleasure from violence, torture, rape, wanton destruction of Nature.”
Comparing Ecosystem Goods and Services Provided by Restored and Native Lands (2008, background): “…and services, by contrast, can be difficult (Kahn 1995, Costanza et al. 1997), and sectors of the economic community have criticized such valuation (Bockstael et al. 2000, Spash and Vatn Walter K. Dodds (e-mail: wkdodds@ksu.edu) is a professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University…”
Biodiversity loss and the taxonomic bottleneck: emerging biodiversity science (2006, background): “…within a given geographical area, human-mediated transformation of ecosystems generally destroys natural habitats and their biodiversity and also alters ecosystem services without regard for the consequences of their loss in the immediate and distant future (Balmford et al. 2002; CBD 2006a, 2006b).”
Securing ocean benefits for society in the face of climate change (2013, background): “Several estimates for restored mangroves show that the benefit-to-cost ratio of planting and maintenance is greater than 4, even accounting solely for timber, fishery support, carbon sequestration, and coastal protection [89–91].”
Limits to CBA in UK and European environmental policy: retrospects and future prospects (2007, background): “…in monetary terms and fitted into the CBA format) to support the case for more protected areas or better management and sustainable use of ecosystems under threat of conversion or degradation from economic development (Costanza et al, 1997; Daily, 1997; Bockstael et al, 2000; Balmford et al, 2002).”
Integrating ecological, economic and social aspects to generate useful management information under the EU Directives' ‘ecosystem approach’ (2012, background): “…provide a wide range of ecosystem services benefits, such as food production and recreation, while at the same time providing a wide panoply of regulatory and support ES, as nutrient cycling and water purification (Balmford et al., 2002, 2011; Bateman et al., 2011; MEA, 2003; Turner et al., 2003).”
Biodiversity for multifunctional grasslands: equal productivity in high-diversity low-input and low-diversity high-input systems (2009, background): “Besides the provision of forage, conservation functions and a wide variety of other ecosystem services, the possible economic value of biodiversity might be an additional incentive to include high-diversity low-input communities in farming systems (Balmford et al., 2002; Hodgson et al., 2005).”