Adopting a natural capital approach improves understanding of economic, social, cultural, and environmental values. Helping to encourage behaviours and practices that support stewardship and sustainability.
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Human activities are directly and indirectly depleting the World's natural resources. At the same time, we rely on these resources for our livelihoods and well-being. Urgent action is thus needed to better manage our imp...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: Aberystwyth University
The project aims to enhance understanding of non-instrumental value concepts and explore how they can be integrated into economic thinking and policy decisions.
This project takes the critical debate on the project of seeking to numerically capture nature's value, a debate that has been occurring in the academy and with some practitioners, fully to those responsible for doing th...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of East Anglia
The project engages with those responsible for delivering economic valuation of nature and aims to inform and potentially critique/modify that policy.
In recent years environmental and social scientists working with economists have begun to understand the value that nature provides to society. These 'ecosystem services' (ES) include things like the provisioning of food...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: The Open University
The project aims to develop a system that allows anyone to value trees and improve understanding and use of ecosystem services and natural capital.