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Economist Runs Debate on Wild Nature

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Policy_Team

In response to an online debate run by the Economist, 91% of participants have concluded that ‘untouched wildernesses have a value beyond the resources and other utility that can be extracted from them’. The debate ran between 4th and 14th October, with speakers including Pavan Sukhdev, leader of the TEEB (the Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity) study.

Full details of the debate are available here.

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One Response to Economist Runs Debate on Wild Nature

  1. Arbtech UK says:
    October 27, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    Couldn’t agree more. I reckon the ‘other 9%’ ma very well find themselves agreeing if they understood more about ecosystem services and what our economist friends (so-)call, positive externalities.

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