{"id":3179,"date":"2014-10-06T20:06:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T00:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/06\/can-we-put-a-price-tag-on-nature\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:19:40","slug":"can-we-put-a-price-tag-on-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/can-we-put-a-price-tag-on-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we put a price tag on nature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14555\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/john-quinn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14555\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14555 lazyload\" alt=\"John Quinn\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/john-quinn.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"217\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 158px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 158\/217;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. John Quinn<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14559\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/melanie-cozad1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14559\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14559 lazyload\" alt=\"Dr. Melanie Cozad\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/melanie-cozad1.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"210\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 158px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 158\/210;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Melanie Cozad<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Placing a dollar value on the benefits that American society receives from nature is a controversial and complex effort. But as high quality forests and pristine habitat become scarce, it is important to quantify and consider carefully the tradeoffs between development and protection. That is why a team of student and faculty researchers at Furman are trying to determine how local residents value their forests. In an op-ed for <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2014\/10\/04\/can-put-price-tag-nature\/16684369\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/i><\/b>, Furman professors Melanie Cozad (economics) and John Quinn (biology) write about the importance of making good environmental decisions and ask for the community\u2019s help in providing answers to some important questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placing a dollar value on the benefits that American society receives from nature is a controversial and complex effort. But as high quality forests and pristine habitat become scarce, it is important to quantify and consider carefully the tradeoffs between development and protection. That is why a team of student and faculty researchers at Furman are trying to determine how local residents value their forests. In an op-ed for <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2014\/10\/04\/can-put-price-tag-nature\/16684369\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/i><\/b>, Furman professors Melanie Cozad (economics) and John Quinn (biology) write about the importance of making good environmental decisions and ask for the community\u2019s help in providing answers to some important questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-biology","category-economics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}