Gender Concerns When Noah the Economist Ranks Biodiversity Protection Policies

David W. Martin
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David W. Martin: Department of Economics and Core Faculty in Environmental Studies, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28035, USA

Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 8, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: Because the funds to protect biodiversity are very limited, biodiversity protection policies are prioritized using the Noah’s Ark perspective. I discuss how gender affects Noah’s assessment of key elements of his ranking: Discounting, changes in total economic value, marginal costs, changes in ecological value, and the probability of policy success. This incremental approach makes visible the breadth of the mechanisms by which gender differentiated social constructs interact to affect Noah in a richly complex manner.

Keywords: biodiversity protection; Noah’s Ark; economic valuation; gender differentiation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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