BFI Student Lunch Series – The Economics of Biodiversity Losses

Boxed lunches will be provided.

BFI’s Student Lunch Series invites prominent speakers to engage undergraduate and graduate students in discussions on economics. The talks highlight the practical use of economics for answering real-world questions pertinent to businesses and policy makers.

Ecologists are concerned that high extinction rates of species, estimated to be 100 or 1,000 times larger than normal, will have dire consequences not only for the functioning of ecosystems, but for the services on which humanity depends. This talk will review how economics is relevant when thinking about biodiversity losses and ecosystem functioning, focusing on examples that use “natural experiments” to understand how biodiversity affects human wellbeing.