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Counting coastal ecosystems as an economic part of development infrastructure
… management, and long-term reconstruction and economic growth in coastal areas. The paper describes how recent … of major cities are located within 50 km of the coast, and population densities are on average more than two and a half … (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Of an estimated population of just over 2 billion in South and Southeast …
Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure
… – especially for the poorest sectors of the world’s population. Decisions of how to allocate, price and invest in … are omitted from water equations, large sectors of the population can be cut off from access to the vital economic … a series of elaborate targets are set as regards economic growth, reduction in the incidence of poverty, and improved …