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In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost.Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services.

• accessible introduction
• bioprospecting
• carbon sequestration
• conservation biology
• conservation issues
• controversial proposition
• economic solutions
• ecosystem preservation
• ecosystem services
• ecosystems
• environmental economics
• eschewing
• healthy environment
• human populations
• market approaches
• marketplace
• pollution credits
• profits
• romantic notions
• straightforward business