Dem nuh serious bout di Cockpit country..

[Muadib]

A group of internationally respected scientists and economists have begun hashing out a method to determine the economic value of biodiversity present in the Cockpit Country.

They started Saturday with a workshop at the Courtleigh Hotel in New Kingston and will end Tuesday at the Mona Visitors' Lodge and Conference Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona.

The effort to determine the economic value of the Cockpit's biodiversity is a collaboration of the Windsor Research Centre in Trelawny and the Department of Economics at UWI, Mona. The project is being funded by the United States-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

[Exile]

Please explain.

[Muadib]

How di Department of Economics at UWI come into dis ?

Wha dem ah guh duh ? Count di plant dem and see what the flower stores will tek dem fah ?

[Exile]

It wouldn't be a bad idea either to do that, also the medicinal palnts, future earnings..they could have a 'field' day. And then they could do all kinds of resource economics, economic valuation - willingness to pay, replacement costs of ecosysem service.....
Is you have a white PhD graduate student from Holland?

[Muadib]

Yes... the UWI Econ department has certainly played a major role in developing supply chain value models for our resources... it shows in the country's economic development.