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What's the economic value of nature?

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By Bob Holmes

9 January 2013

Putting a price on the impact of nature may help us understand its true worth, argues environmentalist Tony Jupiter in What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

HOW much is nature worth, in measurable financial value? Most economists – and politicians – would answer in terms of the price of timber, pasture for grazing or tourism in national parks. But nature delivers far, far more than that. In What has Nature ever done for us?, Tony Juniper aims to bring that knowledge to a broader public.

One of the UK’s leading environmentalists, Juniper lays out the many ways that natural ecosystems pay dividends to human societies. Some are…

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