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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Researching economics of conservation

Researching economics of conservation

  • Investigating environmental economics
  • Providing resources on ecological economics

Broader

Developing sustainable economic systems
Presentable
Conveying economic sociologies
Unpresentable
Strengthening sustainable development economics
Yet to rate
Freeing up assumptions of neoclassical economics
Yet to rate

Narrower

Investigating interaction between agriculture and environment
Presentable
Researching corporate environmental accounting
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Using natural resource accounting
Excellent
Using life-cycle analysis
Excellent
Resourcing biodiversity conservation
Excellent
Promoting environmentally sound economic growth
Excellent
Ensuring compatibility between multilateral environmental agreements and World Trade Organization rules
Excellent
Developing policy for conservation of biodiversity
Excellent
Using economic incentives to increase environmental performance standards
Presentable
Protecting global environment
Presentable
Investing in environmental conservation
Presentable
Conserving natural heritage
Unpresentable
Training decision-makers in use of environmental economics
Yet to rate
Switching from price support to conservation support
Yet to rate
Protesting unsound public spending
Yet to rate
Increasing primary environmental care by farmers
Yet to rate
Costing environmental damage
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Promoting Buddhist economics
Yet to rate

Related

Producing environmental resource inventories
Presentable

Problem

Incompatibility of environmental and economic decision-making
Excellent
Failure to take account of externalities of systems
Yet to rate
Economically inefficient regulations
Yet to rate

Value

Conservative
Yet to rate
Conservation
Yet to rate

Reference

Jansson, AnnMarie, et al: Investing in Natural Capital: the ecological economics approach to sustainability
Barbier, Edward B, et al: Elephants, Economics and Ivory
Barbier, Edward B: Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development: conventional and alternative views
Markandya, Anil and Richardson, Julie: The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Economics
Cairncross, Francis: Green Ink: a guide to the environment
Swanson, Timothy and Barbier, Edward: Economics for Wilds: wildlife, wildlands, diversity and development

Web link

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #4: Quality EducationSustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean EnergySustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic GrowthSustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(F) Exceptional strategies
Subject
  • Resources » Resources
  • Geography » Ecology
  • Research, standards » Research
  • Research, standards » Investigations
  • Economics » Economics
  • Environment » Environment
  • Conservation » Conservation
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J0883
    DOCID
    12008830
    D7NID
    206398
    Last update
    Jul 10, 2018