Figure 3.3. Economic Benefits Under Alternate Management Practices

(expressed as net present value in dollars per hectare)

"In each case, the net benefits from the more sustainably managed ecosystem are greater than those from the converted ecosystem even though the private (market) benefits would be greater from the converted ecosystem. (Where ranges of values are given in the original source, lower estimates are plotted here.)"

Source & © Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
 Synthesis Report (2005),
Chapter 3, p.57
(Conditions and Trends Working Group Report, C5 Ecosystem Change and Human Well-being, Box 5.1)