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How we value wetlands and bushland wins top prize
An academic paper, "Valuing Biodiversity Using Habitat Types" highlighting the greater value people place on wetlands near the Coorong in South Australia compared to surrounding bushlands has been awarded the Eric Anderson award for best article in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management by environment academics from Australia and New Zealand.
Co-authored by ILWS Associate Director and senior environmental 
economist Professor Mark Morrison, and Dr Darla Hatton MacDonald from CSIRO, the research showed that people around the Coorong, in the capital Adelaide and elsewhere in South Australia were willing to pay much more money to protect the wetlands than scrublands or grassy woodlands in the same region.
Professor Morrison and Dr Hatton MacDonald received their award on Wednesday 28 September at the annual conference of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand in Brisbane. Read More