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Issues in the Economics of Biodiversity and Economic Growth: Sustainability, development, valuation and realpolitik

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Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development in the Black Sea Region

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Complexity of the concept of sustainability is regarded as a major factor in its defence. Sustainability is politically acceptable for who could be against it? Its vagueness makes it hard for the philosopher or even the economist to attack it. Biodiversity is no less difficult a concept especially allowing for the taxonomic and spatial complexity and the prospects of genetic engineering.

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  1. Dept of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK

    Alister McFarquhar

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  1. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. Kotlyakov (Director) (Director)

  2. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Germany

    M. Uppenbrink (President) (President)

  3. Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Tblisi, Georgia

    V. Metreveli (President) (President)

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McFarquhar, A. (1998). Issues in the Economics of Biodiversity and Economic Growth: Sustainability, development, valuation and realpolitik. In: Kotlyakov, V., Uppenbrink, M., Metreveli, V. (eds) Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development in the Black Sea Region. NATO ASI Series, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5114-6_4

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