The Economics of Nature
Subtitle: Managing Biological Assets
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780631218951
First sentence: The United Nation's Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) at Rio de Janerio in 1992, also known as the "Earth Summit", is widely considered to be the source of the most recent wave of discussions about sustainable development and sustainable forestry.
Description: This work takes a "portfolio management" perspective on the worldwide deterioration of the natural environment. The authors see the function of the book as the way to measure environmental services and biological assets, while economic theory of nature management is applied through case studies.