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Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation (ESPA) is an exciting new research programme funded by a consortium of development and science agencies in the UK. I’m on ESPA’s international advisory board and they asked me for some thoughts on the ecosystem … Continue reading
Estimating welfare: another measure
New NBER paper Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow looks interesting. They propose a new summary statistic for a nation’s flows of welfare that combines data on consumption, leisure, inequality, and mortality. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Jones, economics, GDP, human wellbeing, NBER, Peter Klenow
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Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox
My colleagues are I recently published a paper in BioScience, Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade? The paper originated from the involvement of the first four authors, my former PhD student Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, BioScience, Ciara-Radusepp Hearne, Elena Bennett, Garry Peterson, HDI, human development index, human wellbeing, Maria Tengö, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, technology, Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Why Is Human Well-being Increasing As Ecosystem Services Degrade?
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