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Jul 24, 2015
What is water worth? — By Giorgis Kallis | Forbes India
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: economics, environmental, policy
The traditional framing of the issue is a choice between accepting the power of markets and ‘playing their game’ to win environmental concessions vs. the purist perspective of saying No to any hint of money or markets in environmental policy.
In this article we will describe the positions of two relatively new fields of study—Ecological Economics and Political Ecology—in an effort to redefine the terms of the choice and chart a path for a pragmatic approach.