ENVI3111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthropocentrism, Environmental Policy, Ecosystem Services
3 Apr 2019
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Natural resource economists: placing monetary values prevents the misuse of nature. Community environmental group: environmental tourism raises revenue for community, difficult to place monetary values on intangible things. Nsw office of environment and heritage environmental policy makers. Development corporation looking to reclaim a wetland to build a restaurant and marina: strongly anthropocentric. Land/nature is valuable only when people visit: nature is an investment, wetlands are disappearing 3 times faster than forests, putting a dollar value on wetlands raises awareness and environmental consciousness environmental action. Prompt: questions to consider: discuss whether or not your stakeholder group supports the notion that: putting a dollar value on nature (ex. Ecosystem services) will result in improved environmental outcomes : yes. If yes, provide your reasons and an argument for why you agree and why you dismiss alternative options. Difference between putting a monetary value on nature vs. selling nature as a commodity. Need for systemic change vs. small achievable projects.
