Suchergebnisse

Environment and economy-no conflict -- Market mistakes and how unpaid-for external effects are killing us -- Climate change: "the greatest external effect in human history" -- How to deal with external effects -- Solving the climate problem -- Everyone's property is no one's property -- Natural capital: taken for granted but not counted -- Valuing natural capital -- Measuring what matters -- The next steps

Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems (because of the free rider problem). I suggest here that in some cases the public goods provided by biodiversity conservation can be bundled with private goods and their value to consumers captured in the price realized by the private goods. This may lead to an efficient level of provision.