Professor Ian Bateman, Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute

Exmoor event: Exeter ecosystem experts explain essential environmental economic effects

Two world-leading environmental experts have said the environment is key part in the fabric of the economy.

Speaking at the Exmoor Conference in Dulverton, Professors Dieter Helm and Ian Bateman, Chairman and member of the Natural Committee respectively, explained how it was important that the environment is recognised as part of the fabric of the economy, otherwise it would continue to decline and lose out to other pressures, such as population growth and major housebuilding programmes and other infrastructure development.

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Date: 19 April 2017