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Putting A Dollar Value On Natural Resources Is Key To Good Policymaking
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In a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team devised a formula to determine the worth over time of natural capital, using the dollar value of groundwater in the U.S. state of Kansas as an example.

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Putting A Dollar Value On Natural Resources Is Key To Good Policymaking
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