Putting a price on nature: Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems--but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelistWhen Gretchen Daily was young, she watched acid rain slowly killing ...
Daily argues that undeveloped nature provide services to human society such as clean water and flood protection that can be valued in financial terms to protect biodiversity. It notes that Daily prepares for a major publicity push for the concept in the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010....
Looks at an attempt by a group of ecologists and economists to put a price tag on the services provided by nature. Report in a May 1997 issue of `Nature'; Estimate that replacing nature's goods and services would cost $33 trillion annually; Policy changes they recommend to preserve the Ea...
Putting a price on research reading, ArtículoNature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style journal that publishes full-length research papers in all disciplines of science, as well as News and Views, reviews, news, features, commentaries, web focuses and more, covering ...
"If you have an artificially low price for a product, you tend to consume more of it and tend not to give it importance," said Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). "It's human nature. You give something away, people will ta...
A gene mapping to the sex determining region of the mouse Y chromosome is a member of a novel family of embryonically expressed genes. Nature 346: 245–250. Google Scholar Harry, J. L. & C. J., Limpus, 1989. Low temperature protection of marine turtle eggs during long distance ...
Part 1 — PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE:Sandel presents some contemporary cases in which cost-benefit analysis was used to put a dollar value on human life. The cases give rise to several objections to the utilitarian...
Putting a price on biotechnology Nature Biotechnology journal featuring biotechnology articles and science research papers of commercial interest in pharmaceutical, medical, and environmental sciences. JJ Stewart,PN Allison,RS Johnson - 《Nature Biotechnology》 被引量: 217发表: 2001年 Putting a Price on...
Environmentalists sometimes question the need to always put a price tag on nature and assert that nature has an ... A Lambert,S Advisor,Ramsar Convention - International Symposium on Integrated River Basin Management 被引量: 70发表: 2003年 Can We Put a Price Tag on Nature? Rethinking ...
Putting a Price on Identity Theft.Putting a Price on Identity Theft.Reports on the efforts of banks in the U.S. to prevent the fraudulent acts of identity thieves. Nature of the fraudulent acts of identity thieves; Ratio of consumers in the U.S. victimized by identity theft since 1999 acc...