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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

High-Level Panel hits biodiversity loss with cost-benefit analysis

The High-Level Panel estimate of costs of the Aichi Targets on Biodiversity presents COP11 decision-makers with a conventional economic analysis. Is this the answer for biodiversity?

Published October 17, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged biodiversity, CBD COP11, teeb

Achim Steiner brings TEEB to COP11

At COP11, Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP has lavished praise on controversial ideas known as The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

Published October 16, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged CBD COP11, teeb

Scientists shrink from the economics of ecosystems

We all know that GDP is unfit for the purpose of measuring progress. Should scientists at the Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference be doing more to promote the research results of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)?

Published March 23, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged green economy, planet under pressure, rio+20, 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