... or clean up after them. You can go on holidays and they will look after themselves. It might just make the difference between local extinction and survival for some species. The development of our garden within the village of Coutts Crossing is a living example of how the above concept can be realised. ...

... by private markets breaks down when confronted by public goods or goods with large externalities such as clean air, national defence and forest fauna. Cost-benefit analysis is a public decision-making mechanism designed to account for all of the economic values associated with a particular resource...