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Ecosystem services need social science more than slogans

Professor Joshua Farley’s Oxford lecture “The Political Economy of Ecosystem Services” warns against subjecting nature to the forces of market mechanisms.

Published March 11, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged market mechanisms, sustainable development, teeb
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things