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Alex Kent, Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions: Economic Issues by Clement A. Tisdell, Science and Public Policy, Volume 44, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages 146–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scw039
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Sustaining Biodiversity and Economic Functions, Clement Tisdell’s latest book, is well written and often engaging, as befits a senior academic and scholar in the field of environmental economics, but it relies heavily on the reader being both an existing scholar of economic theories as well as having at least a moderate understanding of Tisdell’s previous publications. The book feels as if it is the next volume in a long running series, even though it is meant to be a standalone work. For example, a reader might pick up the fourth book in a science fiction series and appreciate the quality of authorship, but without the context of the previous three books as well as an understanding of the tropes associated with science fiction writing, the reader will be at a loss. In Tisdell’s book this manifests itself as Tisdell being the most cited author, which is not a complaint because Professor Tisdell has been one of the chief scholars looking at environmental economics. Nevertheless, this book is not a beginner’s text on the topic of environmental economics.