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Undervaluation of nature in planning and decision making

Nature

Although there is growing awareness of the many benefits of wild species, ecosystems and protected areas, concrete information about their full economic value is scarce. The economic tools for the accounting of natural values are poorly developed. The practice of ignoring, discounting and undervaluing natural resources persists in governmental planning and decision making.

Broader

Shallow environmental ethics

Undervaluation of public assets

Undervaluation of natural capital

Disregard for intrinsic value of nature

Inadequacy of economic accounting systems

Unethical practices in natural resource management

Neglect of environmental consequences of government policies

Narrower

Undervaluation of forests

Lack of integrated management of biodiversity

Aggravates

Desertification

Planetary cancer

Destruction of wilderness

Natural environment degradation ^{[in 25 loops]}

Degradation of flora and fauna habitats

Criminal offences against the environment ^{[in 6 loops]}

Inadequate integrated freshwater management

Irresponsible delimitation of policy responsibilities ^{[in 7 loops]}

Disparity between share prices and underlying asset values ^{[in 7 loops]}

Misuse of tropical rain forests for agricultural development

Aggravated by

Modernism

Human exceptionalism

Human domination of nature

Commercialization of nature

Defective development planning

Undervaluation of systematic biology

Failure to take account of externalities of systems

Lack of incentive for users to care for community property

Imperfect synthesis of concepts of sustainable development

Strategy(ies)

Capturing environmental value

Valuing nature in planning and decision making

Undervaluing nature in planning and decision making

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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