Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal | 卷:4 |
Making Nature Count | |
Umesh Srinivasan1  Kartik Shanker1  | |
[1] Indian Institute of Science; | |
关键词: Biodiversity; Ecosystem Services; Governance; Resource Management; Sustainability.; | |
DOI : 10.37773/ees.v4i2.463 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
Earth’s biodiversity is the ultimate engine of local and global economies and compromising the renewability of our natural resources will ultimately halt economic growth. Despite this, humankind has continued to exploit natural resources such as fisheries and forests at highly unsustainable rates in the pursuit of flawed development paradigms and simplistic metrics such as gross domestic product (GDP). This has already led to the loss of natural habitats and the decline and extinction of species as well as consequences such as an increase in zoonotic pandemics. The Economics of Biodiversity, a recent report by Sir Partha Dasgupta, addresses how the failure of our current institutions has brought us to where we stand and suggests ways by which we may reform our economic thought to mitigate the impacts on biodiversity. The report identifies important first steps: changing the way we measure economic “success”...
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