The cost of lake restoration
June 27, 2009 by Lake Windermere Project
Filed under Business, Environment, Feature stories, Nature
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Lake Constance (Photo courtesy Global Nature Fund)
Our environment provides, for free, the basic elements required for life – drinkable water, eatable food and breathable air. If we disrupt these basic elements, we face an enormous cost. In 1997, Ecological economist Dr. Robert Costanza attempted to answer the question: What is our environment worth in dollars? The answer was published in the journal Nature. Costanza estimated that the biosphere provides $33 trillion worth of services on an annual basis, an amount greater than the annual gross national products (GNP) of all the world’s economies combined. [Read more]
