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Submitted by Dixon Landers(0)19 January, 2012 - 06:59

If we cannot define and quantify Ecosystem Services consistently and systematically – we might be lost!

Imagine that every industrial sector, firm, municipality and state reported and classified their production using different definitions and units - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would be impossible to calculate!  This is precisely the difficult situation in which we find ourselves as we try to construct a “green” GDP that accounts for ecosystem services.

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