This "selling nature to save it" approach requires economic valuation - either indirectly, as with cost-benefit analysis and contingent valuation, or through direct commodification.

Intergenerational equity can be incorporated into this approach, as has become common in economic valuations of climate change economics (Heal 2009).

These and other avoided health and welfare impacts have an estimated mean economic valuation of $790 million.

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The development of the site and its economic valuation.

Quantum economists hold that output acquires an economic valuation in the payment of wages.

It was meant to specifically address states' needs for the economic valuation of the environmental benefits associated with achieving numeric nutrient water quality standards.

The economic valuation of ecosystem services also involves social communication and information, areas that remain particularly challenging and are the focus of many researchers.

All development plans and policies should include economic valuations that fully reflect the sociological, ecological and environmental costs of resource use, physical developments and pollution.

Sometime in the future, sophisticated economic valuation may be critical for striking a global bargain for forest conservation between north and south.