What Price Ecological restoration? :The Scientist [2006-04-01]


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What Price Ecological restoration? Ecological restoration is expensive. The United States government is slated to spend almost $8 billion restoring parts of the Florida Everglades as wetlands between 2000 and 2030. The Army Corps of Engineers had a plan to spend $14 billion to restore New Orleans' barrier islands before Hurricane Katrina arrived. On a smaller scale, South Africa, whose gross domestic product (GDP) is 4% that of