Talk:Economics of biodiversity

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No to merging

I see no reason to merge this article with Bioeconomics since it is hard to find any linkage. Bioeconomics was developed from fisheries economics in the 1950ies and a couple of seminal articles by Canadian economists could be mentioned. Biodiversity is a quite new term and the economics of biodiversity fairly unknown and quite vague. Will ‘Economics of biodiversity’ be within the area of economic theories in fifty years from now? ----Arnejohs 13:25, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Substantial changes

Hi all, I have made some substantial changes to this article and expanded it. The majority of the article was previously unreferenced and much of it did not link to economic contributions explicitly. I have changed all of the sections to include referenced statistics and information. The article now contains sections (names have been changed) on Agriculture and food, Medicine, Industry, Tourism and recreation, Illegal wildlife trade (added), and Impact of economic activity on biodiversity (added).

If anyone could contribute with further improvement and with regard to economic discourse on the premise and means of valuing biodiversity economically that would be helpful, as well as any further information that exemplifies the contribution of biodiversity to the economy.

Manxshearwater (talk) 14:09, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]