Staff writer
Japan and other nations need to link nature to their economic calculations and include environmental considerations in decision making for a more realistic view of development and its consequences, the director of one of the world's pre-eminent conservation organizations said.
"All the factors are not taken into account in Japan, as in most other developed countries, as to what the real cost of development is," David McDowell, director general of the Switzerland-based World Conservation Union (IUCN), said in an interview with The Japan Times.