And data-driven government is increasingly appealing, because it's proven that it can fuel private-sector ecosystem creation, as well as economic growth.
If you think about the biggest venture and private equity ecosystems in the world, the two biggest being the U.S. and China, I think we do have 50-50 U.S and non-U.S investments across 30-plus companies.
As in the case of health or education, private providers of ecosystem services should help improve the quantity, quality and efficiency of supply.
provides private and public ecosystem services, including mitigation of farming environmental impacts.
Based on a review of existing approaches for preserving land, we consider a conceptual model of environmental impact fees (EIFs) coupled with conservation payments for managing private land of ecosystem value.
The experience of South Africa shows that such fiscal incentives can ensure that private landowners protect ecosystems, improve water yields, mitigate fire and flood risks, and promote landscape-scale connectivity.
The result, Mr. Nicholas says, was a thriving "ecosystem of private and corporate innovation".
Affirmative action in state-run higher education broke down caste hierarchies and inadvertently "created a new ecosystem of private colleges and universities," says Lakshmi Narayanan of Cognizant, one of the many IT firms that like the state for its education.
Because, let's be honest: as the world goes to hell in a hand-basket, there will be huge opportunities to profit off the decline, whether on skyrocketing food and energy costs, private security services, or ecosystem services no longer freely provided by nature, such as water treatment and pollination (robotic bees anyone?).
