A simple definition would be services provided to recover some of the tremendous environmental costs incurred by society. Most of the environment has, until lately, been considered a free good, and that we (wherever we are) can continue to spend environmental capital as we like. I think Al Gore has more or less laid that assumption to rest. But what, apart from energy conservation as a means of reducing emissions, can we do? How could a landowner provide a service? Even more how could a landowner benefit financially from doing so? Doughty questions, those, and it may take a post or two to crack them.
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