The Price of Biodiversity
Discussion Topic 3

Posted for the week of April 23, 2000. Submit your discussion contribution to your section's e-mail address. Your contribution will go to each of the members of your discussion section and you will receive their contributions. A discussion of contributions is encouraged, however, please keep your comments civil and don't harass one another. Your discussion contribution is due no later than 3:00 on Tuesday, May 2.

The following article deals with biodiversity and its price. The economics of biodiversity are often simply neglected in most treatments of the topic.

Discuss the article. I would also like your sense of how to deal with the preservation or conservation of rainforests. President Clinton has recently suggested to Congress the forgiving of certain international debts in return for rainforest preservation by those debtor countries. What do you think? How do we preserve rainforests in countries other than our own?

http://bob.nap.edu/issues/15.3/simpson.htm

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