From pdh@u.washington.edu Wed May 7 09:58:51 1997 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.04) with ESMTP id JAA44376 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:58:50 -0700 Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (pdh@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.04) with ESMTP id JAA12118 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:58:48 -0700 Received: from localhost (pdh@localhost) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id JAA01873 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 09:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:58:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Preston Hardison To: Conservation Biology List Subject: ISEE@csf Newsbrief #1 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 18:43:15 +0000 From: Doug Hinrichs Reply-To: ISEE@csf.colorado.edu To: ISEE OnLine Bulletin Subject: ISEE@csf Newsbrief #1 ANNOUNCEMENT: There will be an e-mail "Online Forum," hosted by the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and Communications for a Sustainable Future (csf), to solicit commentaries to the Robert Costanza et. al. article, "The value of the World's ecosystem services and natural capital." The best commentaries may be published as a special edition in the journal "Ecological Economics" as a compiled "Forum." The Online Forum will commence May 19, 1997 and continue until June 30, 1997. _______________________________________________________________________ NATURE magazine is proud to announce the publication of the Robert Costanza et. al. article, "The value of the World's ecosystem services and natural capital." In this ground-breaking analysis, Costanza and colleagues estimate that the value of global ecosystems services to humanity is US$33 trillion/year. For comparison, the global GNP is around US$18 trillion/year. ________________________________________________________________________ The PURPOSE of this Online Forum is to solicit analytical, thoughtful commentaries on the important issue of ecosystem services value, as represented in specific recent publications. Participants are encouraged to compose 1500-word-or-less commentaries for posting to the Online Forum. A board of facilitators will screen these responses for quality and to make sure that the same ideas are not being posted redundantly. Dr. Costanza and the co-authors of the original publication will respond to the group of accepted commentaries, and a selection of the commentaries will be published in the journal Ecological Economics as a Forum (see for example: Forum: Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment. Ecological Economics 15:89-145).. Participants are also encouraged to inform the Online Forum of any studies not included in the article which may help the authors reformulate their next synthesis. _______________________________________________________________________ To JOIN the Online Forum: Send an e-mail message of "sub ISEE-Forum Yourfirstname Yourlastname" to listproc@csf.colorado.edu To SUBMIT messages to the Online Forum: Send your e-mail commentary to ISEE-Forum@csf.colorado.edu with a descriptive heading in the subject line. ________________________________________________________________________ If you have QUESTIONS about the Online Forum, please e-mail Douglas Hinrichs at hinrichs@cbl.cees.edu. For more information, please see the ISEE Website at http://kabir.cbl.cees.edu/ISEE/ISEEhome.html _______________________________________________________________________ NOTE: This is the first ISEE@csf Newsbrief, with which we hope to inform interested parties of topical events in the ecological economics/sustainable development field. The list of recipients is composed of participants from the ISEE@csf Daly Online Seminar, the ISEE list, and several lists from discussion groups at csf. If at anytime you wish to stop getting the Newsbriefs, please send the message of "unsub ISEE@csf" to listproc@csf.colorado.edu Thanks for your time and attention. Feel free to inform me of upcoming events which you think may be of interest to this group. -- Douglas Hinrichs, Executive Director International Society for Ecological Economics "the ecological economics bulletin" Editor 410.326.0794 tel. 410.326.7354 fax hinrichs@cbl.cees.edu http://kabir.cbl.cees.edu/ISEE/ISEEhome.html .