Environmental Economics

The Scale of Ecosystem Payments

The Scale of Ecosystem Payments

Can Payments for Ecosystem Services bridge the gap between environmental protection and economic development? [Continue]

How Poor Will the World Be in 2050? It Depends.

How Poor Will the World Be in 2050? It Depends.

Oxford researchers say acute poverty could be eradicated in some of the poorest countries by 2033. A United Nations report says extreme poverty could swallow up 3.1 billion by 2050. How do we reconcile these claims? [Continue]

Is the Price Right?

Is the Price Right?

Ecosystem modelling offers the potential to add much more depth to our models assessing the cost of development. [Continue]

What is Land: Part II

What is Land: Part II

Allowing the relentless pursuit of efficiency to create an extractive mindset is not compatible with sustainability. [Continue]

Growing the Economy

Growing the Economy

Changing the metaphors we use for the economy can help reframe sustainability. [Continue]

Climate Cartography

Climate Cartography

Changing the way we draw maps could help change the ways we think about the connections between the environment and the economy. [Continue]

Losing A Visionary

Losing A Visionary

Eleanor Ostrom's work revolutionized thinking about The Commons. Solving our current global problems depends on thinking like hers. [Continue]

Conserving Places and Helping People

Conserving Places and Helping People

Conservation organizations face a challenge: should they prioritize conservation or human development? [Continue]

Damming Patagonia

Damming Patagonia

Sustainable development of Chile's extensive renewable resources is blocked by the Supreme Court. [Continue]

A Price on Carbon is Unavoidable

A Price on Carbon is Unavoidable

Technology alone does not hold the answers for solving global warming. Innovation must take place along side a carbon price. [Continue]

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From the Podcast

There's a lot of idealism at the high school level of education, and there's a tremendous hunger for information and real-life experience.

Dr. Christopher Shaw on Teaching Sustainable Development

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