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dc.contributor.authorVardon, Michael
dc.contributor.authorKeith, Heather
dc.contributor.authorObst, Carl
dc.contributor.authorLindenmayer, David
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-23T21:27:53Z
dc.date.available2020-09-23T21:27:53Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn0044-7447en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s13280-018-1114-zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/397805
dc.description.abstractEconomics has long taken precedence over the environment in both governmental and business decision making, with the System of National Accounts and the indicator GDP coming to represent much that is wrong with the current environmental conditions. Increasing recognition of the environmental damage human activity causes and that human well-being depends on biodiversity and ecosystems means that new systems to measure and sustainably manage the world are needed. Integrating the environment into national accounts has been suggested as a way to improve information but so far impact on decision making is limited. This outlook needs to change. Using examples from Australia and Botswana, we show how integrating information on biodiversity, resource use and the economy via accounting can help create a new decision-making paradigm and enable a new policy framing with spending on biodiversity conservation and sustainability seen as an investment, not a cost.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom726en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto731en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue7en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAmbioen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume48en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironment and Resource Economicsen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Economicsen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode140205en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160802en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1402en_US
dc.titlePutting biodiversity into the national accounts: Creating a new paradigm for economic decisionsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVardon, M; Keith, H; Obst, C; Lindenmayer, D, Putting biodiversity into the national accounts: Creating a new paradigm for economic decisions, Ambio, 2019, 48 (7), pp. 726-731en_US
dc.date.updated2020-09-22T21:34:43Z
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)en_US
gro.rights.copyright© 2019 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Ambio: a journal of the human environment 48, pages 726–731 (2019). Ambio: a journal of the human environment is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.en_US
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gro.griffith.authorKeith, Heather


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