Balancing economic and ecological goals
| Autor: | Wolfram Schlenker, Eyal G. Frank |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Multidisciplinary
business.industry Ecology 05 social sciences Environmental resource management Biodiversity Habitat destruction Critical habitat 0502 economics and business Environmental science Land use land-use change and forestry Ecosystem 050202 agricultural economics & policy 050207 economics business |
| Zdroj: | Science. 353:651-652 |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 0036-8075 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.aaf9697 |
| Popis: | Human activities are increasingly degrading ecosystems, resulting in habitat loss and reduced biodiversity. Extinction rates, a widely used metric of biodiversity loss, are estimated to be around 1000 times as high as those historically experienced on Earth ( 1 ); even the most conservative estimate puts current extinction rates at 114 times as high as the background planetary norm ( 2 ). Simulations project that, under scenarios of increased economic growth and the accompanying land use change, critical habitat will further degrade and biodiversity will decline ( 3 , 4 ). Are economic growth and ecosystem conservation incompatible objectives? |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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