22
February
2015
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01:44
Asia/Singapore
Assessing the value of mangrove swamps
Asst Prof Daniel Friess from the Dept of Geography in the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences discussed Singapore's declining coastal ecosystem as a result of urbanisation. He also examined the paradigm of 'ecosystem services' as a way of increasing awareness of the importance of ecosystems, and potentially as a way of quantifying their value economic or otherwise.