Wild Capital : Nature's Economic and Ecological Wealth /
In Wild Capital, Barbara Jones demonstrates that looking at nature through the lens of the marketplace is a surprisingly effective approach to protecting the environment. Showing that policy-makers and developers rarely associate wild places with monetary values, Jones argues that nature should be v...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University of Florida Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In Wild Capital, Barbara Jones demonstrates that looking at nature through the lens of the marketplace is a surprisingly effective approach to protecting the environment. Showing that policy-makers and developers rarely associate wild places with monetary values, Jones argues that nature should be viewed as a capital asset like any other in order for environmental preservation to be a competitive alternative to construction projects. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (306 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9781683401339 |