Authors:
Blignaut, J., J. Aronson and M. de Wit
Publication Date:
2014
Abstract/Summary:
In many countries, new legislation now requires some form of restoration and/or a form of offset investment. All of this will require major increases in financial allocations toward restoration science, technology, and implementation, and much more detailed valuation techniques. The economics of restoration is a new field emerging to support these needs. Our paper here starts with an analysis of the articles and reviews published on this broad subject from 1928 to 2012, as captured in the Scopus academic search platform. Our goal is to present and summarize what has been said and done in this area to date. Next, we map out one possible way forward, illustrated by examples and based on a coherent bundle of decision parameters related to the economics of ER and, more broadly, to the restoration of natural capital.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12451/abstract