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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"natural capital"”.
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Essays on fundamental natural capital valuation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Examining the spatial influences of natural capital in the Australian agricultural landscape
… and economic influences and outcomes of on-farm natural capital in the Australian agricultural landscape over space and time. In particular, it explored: 1) the spatial influences on the adoption of certified organic farming (which is used as a proxy indicator of natural capital conservation …
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Valuing natural capital in real estate development : challenges and opportunites in the Pearl River Delta, P.R. China
… and sustainability. A strategy that values natural capital can bring competitive advantage. Natural capitalism is a powerful new business model that integrates business and environmental motives. Through this model, businesses can better satisfy their customers' needs, increase profits, gain …
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Nature's contributions to people: socio-economic assessments of strategies to conserve natural capital and guide the sustainable provision and equitable distribution of ecosystem services in developing countries
Natural resources continue to be unsustainably used and their benefits inequitably shared. In many instances economic incentives and resource management approaches have not led to the sustainable use or equitable distribution of the benefits of natural resources such as fisheries and forests. This …
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Sustainability and economic policy analysis
… economic basis for the discussion on how much natural capital the current generation should be allowed to deplete. Chapter I uses overlapping-generations models to show the effects of different assumptions about which generation owns the stock of a natural resource on the distribution of …
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A framework for determining remote sensing capabilities for ecosystem services valuation
… regulation—to human societies thanks to the "natural capital" like forests and lakes on our planet. Accurately measuring and valuing these ecosystem services is crucial for informed economic and development decisions. Remote sensing (RS) technology offers a powerful way to monitor natural …
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Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
… than the combined depreciation of its stocks of natural capital and produced capital. Thus, these indicators allow trade-offs where, for example, natural capital might be depreciated in order to build up other forms of capital, such as in the built environment or in the form of human capital. As …
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Sustainable development: Why is it not delivering on its promises?
… development agenda promised a new era for natural resource management, where the wellbeing of human society would be enhanced through a more sustainable use of natural resources. Several decades on, economic growth continues unabated at the expense of natural capital – as evidenced by …
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An ecosystem approach assessing the impacts of the construction and operation of the Mersey Gateway Crossing on the Upper Mersey Estuary
… to humans. More recently, the concept of natural capital has boarded the range of issues considered to include natural stocks such as geology, soil, air, water, and all living things. The use of ecosystem services to achieve sustainable management of natural capital has been endorsed in …
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Water supply in the Eastern Cape: an economic case study of land rehabilitation in the Kromme River Catchment
… studies focusing on the restoration of natural capital at nine sites throughout South Africa. The research stems from the hypothesis that restoring degrading landscapes has the potential to provide a quality flow of water, sequester carbon and improve land productivity. The studies will …
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Role and procedures of natural resources accounting (NRA) : an NRA framework for Botswana
… that need to be followed when carrying out natural resources accounting. The paper first reviews the SNA and its shortcomings regarding the treatment of the environment and natural capital. This is done by looking at the SNA classification of assets and examining how far environmental …
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GOVERNANCE FOR RESILIENCE IN RESOURCE-RICH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA
… economies requires extensive human and natural resource management strategies. The discovery of oil in commercial quantities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in the 1950s has brought with it both benefits and adverse consequences, with prevalent violence resulting in loss of lives …
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Environmental Accounting of Marine Protected Area "Isole Ciclopi" by means of Emergy analysis
… aspects of the reserves in order to assess the Natural Capital stocks and the Ecosystem Services generated by MPAs. The results of the research are intended to offer an innovative methodology and new points of reflection in the field of environmental evaluation and of policies.
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Institutional Resilience of Community-based Conservation to the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
… data were collected and analyzed. I estimated capital stocks and assessed the organizational resilience of each CAMC during and following the Maoist insurgency. I used confirmatory factor analysis to develop scales for measuring the two theoretical constructs of legitimacy and institutional …
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Greening the Green: An Investigation of Circular Economy in the Life-cycle of Building Thermal Insulation
… profit without having negative impacts on the natural capital to provide a better future of living for the next generations. Sustainable Development (SD) is defined as the economy which considers economic development by considering future generations’ essential living requirements. As a major …
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Household Food Security in Developing Countries: Understanding the Role of Dynamic Natural and Social Systems
… of consumption and investment in assets and capital to ensure future availability of food. Chapter 2 builds an optimal control model to analyze the trade-offs between stocks of primary forest and agricultural production. This study highlights the role of ecosystem services provided by stocks …
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Essays on Methods to Support Ecosystem Accounting
Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) aims to report on the role of the environment in the economy and society using the same accounting principles as the System of National Accounts. Among the frameworks developed over time for this purpose, the System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem …
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EXPLORING THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE POLICY APPROACH IN A NORTHERN UK CITY.
… service policy approach, specifically the natural capital approach, within the Liverpool City Region. • Provide context to the wider discussion around future changes in environmental legislation, in term informing the decision-making process at varying levels.
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Elsieskraal: River restoration as urban catalyst
… a comprehensive understanding of the human- and natural capital available to us, and the ways in which these resources can be employed at different scales and varying contexts. With half of the world's population now living in cities, it is in the urban environment where intervention is most …
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