ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the basic plan for making economic use of the real wealth of the environment and what is required to make the development of human society and ecosystems prosperous and sustainable. The economics of environmental inputs is the subject of microeconomics. Human economic use harvests and sells the products. The chapter shows the relationships of money circulation to the processing and use of resources. The annual energy use per person is a measure of standard of living. Economic development generates the most real wealth by retaining the environment's production while matching it with additional real wealth bought from outside. Good development fits the economic-use activity to the environmental processes so that they are symbiotic. When development fits the Florida economy to the system of water and wetlands symbiotically, it increases the potential for prosperity. Patterns and problems of growth are illustrated by the development in south Florida.
