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100 VALUES AND FUCTIONS OF MIRES AND PEATLANDS310See also Chapter 4.311Money as such has a signalisation function as anembodiment of human labour or of cornequivalents (classical economics) or as anindication of human gratification (neo-classicaleconomics).312According to IUCN (1994), the main purposesof conservation management are: scientificresearch, wilderness protection, preservation ofspecies and genetic diversity, maintenance ofenvironmental services, protection of specificnatural and cultural features, tourism andrecreation, education, sustainable use of resourcesfrom natural ecosystems, and maintenance ofcultural and traditional attributes. Variousmanagement categories are based on combinationsof these objectives (cf. EUROPARC & IUCN1999). See §5.6.3(7) and Appendix 8.313Based on information from Scott Frazier andDoug Taylor (Wetlands International).314In this Table, and elsewhere in the document, theword “exploitation” is used in the sense of derivingbenefit from, without any pejorative intent.315E.g. in tourism or in advertisements for othercommercial products, cf. De Groot 1992.316Cf. §3.2.317“Their environment” means here: all relevantvalues (cf. the range of anthropocentricinstrumental values) that are instrumental in thewellbeing of these beings.