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Ecosystem services: if they are so important, why did no one notice before?
2014-06-24 13:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Claire Wansbury and Veronica Lawrie, from consultancy firm Atkins, write how ecosystem services -- the things that the nature does for us for free, like pollination -- are not disconnected from the economy. Ecosystem services are the benefits that people obtain from the natural environment. There is growing recognition by policymakers and businesses that natural capital, which provides these ecosystem services, is the missing link in classical economics. For many ecosystem services, the value...
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