Nature

ISSUES

Economics and nature

A growing number of ecologists seize economic arguments to prove that defending nature is not only a moral necessity, but also a reasonable investment in everyone's best interests. Using these arguments, ecologists address political and economic decision makers, highlighting the profit to be made from investments which may initially seem costlier but which in the long term will be less costly and therefore more profitable.
In a world where many decisions are taken on financial grounds, the field of economics attaches greater or lesser importance to things by assigning them a greater or lesser value. Since several environmental resources have become scarce, the question arises of assigning them a value in order to manage them as efficiently as possible.

NEWS

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UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND - A type of degradable plastic bag that was supposed to be better for the environment may not be completely...

ALGERIA - ALGER - L'Algérie a décidé d'exclure "les exploitants étrangers" de la prochaine campagne de pêche de thon rouge dans...

CHINA - Authorities in eastern China have said they will release 20 million algae-eating fish into one of the nation's most...

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DEBATES

Ecological debt in Africa

Andrew Simms

The elephant is still standing. And, still dead. Around its feet glisten hundreds of coins thrown by museum visitors. They could...

Legalise tiger trade to save species

At the moment, the smugglers are winning. The strategy to...

However you look at it, subsidies for new cars do more harm than good

EU member states are falling over each other to support the...

FOCUS

The carbon tax

Tobacco and alcohol are taxed. Why can’t we do the same thing for carbon? In the first two cases, the tax covers the social and medical costs of the related nuisance. The carbon tax would cover the environmental...

VIDEOS

16/02/2010	Depuis que les abeilles ont disparu au Sichuan, les hommes répandent à la...	26/11/2009	Ce documentaire présente ce qu'est l'économie sociale et solidaire,...
04/06/2009	Au rythme effréné auquel va la disparition des forêts tropicales, les...	26/02/2009	Pour le prix Nobel d'économie Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, l'écologie n'est pas...

GREEN TIPS

Hooray for taste!

The « Slow Food » organisation (thus named in contrast to « fast-food ») whose symbol is a snail is promoting...

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