Discount Rates and Environmental Conservation
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation
- Vol. 2 (3) , 199-201
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900001387
Abstract
The use of current money-lending rates as the basis for economic calculations involving long-term assets such as growing timber, agricultural land, or species of wildlife, is unrealistic and can be very damaging to the interests of the environment. An alternative method, using an assessment of risks together with an assessment of the expected ratio of investment: income, is proposed.Keywords
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