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Yale Environment 360: Protected forests in Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Thailand have prevented the release of more than 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, an ecosystem service worth at least $5 billion, Georgia State University economists found. Their conclusion about the monetary benefit of those forest protections is based on a new method they derived for valuing services such as carbon capture, conservation, and improvements in air and water quality. Instead of relying on modeling alone, the......
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Human Data Can Make Ecosystem Service Models Better, Researchers Say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 16th, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation