Does nature have a price ? How to maximise the monetary value it represents to build another relationship between man and his environment? Can we make the ecological imperative and prosperity of the economy compatible?
This book breaks with the traditional economic thinking, which views nature as a limited stock of resources, for which depletion threatens growth. According to this view based on scarcity, Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet advocate regulatory actions: the services provided by nature, whether they concern climate stability or biodiversity, cannot remain free if one wants to maintain the possibility of growth. Exploring the experimental fields already open on climate and biodiversity, the authors show that there is a pool of innovation and investment for sustainable growth. They bring a new perspective to the issues of energy and environmental transition.