Economic returns from the biosphere: Industrial companies and environmentalists are traditional opponents. But conflict may not be necessary
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Corporations such as British Petroleum, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Weyerhauser and Interface, are attempting to clean and 'green' their operations, to improve their financial performance. Costanza and colleagues suggested that there is great value in environmental services, although giving no indication how such value can be realized. Natural capital and environmental goods and services need to be securitized, and market forces should be enrolled in their conservation. This would involve obliging corporations to managed and conserve natural capital in return for the right to benefits from selling the services provided.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Megaprojects galore: Europe seems keen on construction projects with benefits for the environment: will environmentalists agree?
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Europe is pressing ahead with plans for large-scale engineering projects despite the objections of environmentalists. Three current projects are a waterway linking the Rhine with the Danube completed in 1992, the tunnel under the English Channel due to open in 1993 and a proposal in Switzerland for two tunnels for carrying trucks on flatbeds under the Alps. Environmentalists opposed all three of these projects even though each was intended to improve environmental quality by reducing traffic on overused roads.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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A manual for planetary management: It is time for environmental scientists and policy-makers to speak the same language, and to target the achievable, not simply the desirable. A framework is emerging from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
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The second congress of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) was held in May discussed the way in which scientists can increase the chances of effective management of global change. IGBP concentrates on global-change research which requires large-scale interdisciplinary actions. It is important to develop a new strategy for global-change research, which is even more interdisciplinary, with a focus on achievable and policy-relevant aims.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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