strategy

Researching economics of conservation

Synonyms:

Investigating environmental economics
Providing resources on ecological economics

Broader:

Conveying economic sociologies
Developing sustainable economic systems
Strengthening sustainable development economics
Freeing up assumptions of neoclassical economics

Narrower:

Researching corporate environmental accounting
Investigating interaction between agriculture and environment

Facilitates:

Using life-cycle analysis
Conserving natural heritage
Costing environmental damage
Protecting global environment
Using natural resource accounting
Protesting unsound public spending
Resourcing biodiversity conservation
Investing in environmental conservation
Promoting environmentally sound economic growth
Increasing primary environmental care by farmers
Developing policy for conservation of biodiversity
Switching from price support to conservation support
Training decision-makers in use of environmental economics
Using economic incentives to increase environmental performance standards
Ensuring compatibility between multilateral environmental agreements and World Trade Organization rules

Facilitated by:

Promoting Buddhist economics

Problems:

Economically inefficient regulations
Failure to take account of externalities of systems
Incompatibility of environmental and economic decision-making

Values:

Conservation
Conservative

Organizations:

International Society for Ecological Economics
European Society for Ecological Economics
OIKOS International Foundation for Ecological Economics
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Beijer Institute - International Institute of Ecological Economics
Environmental Economics Network for Eastern and Southern Africa

References:

Jansson, AnnMarie, et al: Investing in Natural Capital: the ecological economics approach to sustainability
Barbier, Edward B, et al: Elephants, Economics and Ivory
Barbier, Edward B: Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development: conventional and alternative views
Markandya, Anil and Richardson, Julie: The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Economics
Cairncross, Francis: Green Ink: a guide to the environment
Swanson, Timothy and Barbier, Edward: Economics for Wilds: wildlife, wildlands, diversity and development

Subjects:

Resources → Resources
Geography → Ecology
Research, Standards → Research
Research, Standards → Investigations
Economics → Economics
Environment → Environment
Conservation → Conservation

Type Classification:

F: Exceptional strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

GOAL 4: Quality Education

GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

GOAL 15: Life on Land

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