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about Lucy Emerton
Lucy's Writing
World Resources Institute
Lucy founded the Environmental Management Group, a consultancy which works to support governments, companies and communities in managing the impact of environmental issues on their business and the impact of their business on the environment.
She was also Head of the Global Economics & the Environment Programme, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Three main problems threaten the ability of ecosystems to support human well-being:
- The growing demand
- Governance at the local, regional, and global levels
- Benefits are not equitably distributed
To tackle these problems, WRI’s People & Ecosystems Program creates innovative, practical, and decision-relevant solutions that aim to halt and reverse ecosystem degradation while sustaining their capacity to provide humans with the goods and services we need.
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Ecological Economics
Lucy Emerton, an ecological economist, is coming to explain how putting a dollar value on ecosystem services is beginning to make a change in the way decisions are being made about some of our ecological challenges.
Ecosystem services are things we take for granted - nutrient cycling, soil formation, food, water, air, fuel, detoxification, climate & flood regulation, aesteheic, spritual, educational and recreational services etc.
A Talk & Q&A with Lucy Emerton
March 26th
8 till Late
"A primary objective of ecological economics (EE) is to ground economic thinking and practice in physical reality, especially in the laws of physics (particularly the laws of thermodynamics) and in knowledge of biological systems.
Ecological economics is distinguishable from neoclassical economics primarily by its assertion that the economy is embedded within an environmental system."
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