It might seem counterintuitive to suggest timber harvesting when the goal is to restore forests, but that gives landholders the economic incentive to protect and manage forests over time.
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When something is free, people use a lot of it. Economists are urging governments to compute values for natural resources – wildlife, plants, air, water – to create motives for protecting them.
We now have a proven model for supporting self-determined building on Aboriginal homelands. The next question is how can its reach be extended?
With a future of droughts looming for the US West, Utah’s Wasatch watershed offers a good model that combines conservation with nature-based recreation.
Forests, wetlands, wildlife, waterways all provide valuable services to society. Would we take better conserve natural resources if we paid for these ecosystem services?
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Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Geography and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College., University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral research associate, Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy, University of Utah, University of Cambridge
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Director, Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability and Professor of Ecology, Columbia University
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Staff Scientist and Director, Agua Salud Project, Smithsonian Institution
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Finance, Harvard Kennedy School
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Agua Salud Project, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science, National University of Singapore
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ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Lecturer in Construction Management, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne