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Confronting the biodiversity crisis
Nature Reports Climate Change, May 5, 2010 (DOI)
“Nine watersheds tumble into Cauca Valley, a region in the southwest of Colombia sandwiched between two of the Colombia Andean mountain chains. For centuries, its richness has attracted humans, who exploited the valley's resources first for agriculture and stockbreeding, and later for hydroelectric power generation. Today, sugar cane production dominates the valley's industry.
“'There are many stresses from water use. The sugar cane sector is thirsty, but the people who live there also need it for daily activities and for drinking water,' says Alejandro Calvache, a water fund specialist at The Nature Conservancy, based in Cartagena, Columbia. TNC, in collaboration with the sugar cane growers' association, the regional environmental authority and several grassroots organizations, is building a water fund that will oversee a massive program of reforestation, water protection, soil improvements, education and training. By investing in the region's ecosystem services, the project, which is called 'Agua Por La Vida y la Sostenibilidad' — meaning 'Water for Life and sustainability' — aims to lessen climate change impacts and threats to biodiversity.
“Water funds exist globally to conserve watersheds, but this is one of the first to include climate change modelling to help direct investments. The International Center for Tropical Agriculture, a research institute in Columbia, is modelling scenarios to determine the effects of climate change on local water resources. These scenarios are then fed into a computer-based decision-making tool called InVEST, which has been developed by the Natural Capital Project, a partnership between TNC, Stanford University and the World Wildlife Fund. InVEST identifies the areas where climate change is unlikely to threaten activities the water fund has been invested in — such as promoting the reforestation of a hillside or teaching eco-friendly cattle-ranching practices — and their returns. 'Traditionally, conservation has pulled on people's heart-strings,' says Heather Tallis, lead scientist at Natural Capital. 'We try to appeal to people's lifeblood, like drinking water.'”
Losing life’s variety: 2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity, but little has been accomplished
“Just documenting diversity doesn’t guarantee that a place becomes a park. Selecting good bits requires understanding how critters use space and weighing competing claims for it.
“One recent approach looks to double the punch of the case for setting aside land by identifying biodiverse places that also provide documented ecosystem services, says Taylor Ricketts, who heads the World Wildlife Fund’s Conservation Science Program, based in Washington, D.C. Though the two don’t match tidily, Ricketts has found a few natural sweet spots important for their variety of living things and for such boons as storing abundant carbon or collecting water.
“The Natural Capital Project...is refining software to allow fine-scale analyses, and Tanzania, the state of Hawaii and others are already using the software.”
The Interconnected Biosphere: Science at the Ocean's Tipping Points
Remarks published in Oceanography 23: 2, June 2010 (Video)
“The challenge of determining, measuring, and communicating the values of ecosystem services is being addressed through efforts such as the Natural Capital Project...to develop tools for facilitating incorporation of natural capital (i.e., valuation of ecosystem services) into decision making. Their first tool, InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs), can model and map the delivery, distribution, and economic value of ecosystem services into the future. InVEST allows users to visualize the impacts of their potential decisions, which enables identification of tradeoffs among environmental, economic, and social benefits. This tool has already been applied successfully using stakeholder defined scenarios to predict changes in land use and associated tradeoffs in the Willamette Valley, Oregon (Nelson et al., 2009). Although InVEST was initially focused on terrestrial ecosystems, it is now being applied to coastal and marine ecosystems to provide maps and projections of ecosystem services under different management alternatives for issues, such as tradeoffs associated with large-scale implementation of desalination plants in California (Ruckelshaus and Guerry, 2009). Marine InVEST offers a promising new approach for incorporating scientific information about ecosystem services into decision making and resource management.”
Price fixing: Why it is important to put a price on nature
The Economist, January 18, 2010
“The overall lesson is that what looks beneficial only does so because the profits are retained by the private sector, while the problems are spread out across society at large, appearing on no specific balance sheet. Ecosystem-services researchers are now providing such balance sheets in more and more of the world. Poor countries such as South Africa and Tanzania have realised that if they study the provision of such services sensibly, they can make more rational decisions and avoid some of the costly mistakes made by those places that have already developed. To this end, the Natural Capital Project, a group based at Stanford University, California, has developed a suite of computer programs called InVEST, which will analyse and map ecosystem services. InVEST allows farmers, landowners and government officials to make better-informed decisions about the current and future costs of an activity.”
Nature's Bank Account: Money doesn't grow on trees, so how do we put a monetary value on nature?
“We must translate our actions—and the intended or unintended results—into environmental values we can compare with other values, such as increased income or jobs. Economists have already made great progress in valuing certain environmental benefits. For example, we can infer the value of nature to homeowners by analyzing how housing prices increase with access to lakes, a scenic view or other environmental amenities. And, we must bring the values of nature to bear in our decision-making processes. Innovative public policies, such as incentive-based regulations, and private initiatives, such as environmental certification, harness market forces for environmental protection, showing it is possible to protect the environment—even in a rising economy.”
Eco-Nomics
“If nature were being protected for her own sake, there would be no worry. But around the world nature is being liquidated—at accelerating rates. Moreover, in rich and poor countries alike, conservation is often seen as the passion of a small minority, in conflict with most people's needs and aspirations. Changing this situation requires two things: first, shining a light on nature’s tremendous but often invisible values; and second, demonstrating how these values can be mainstreamed into resource decisions to benefit both people and nature.”
There's a bold new idea on the front edge of conservation: Let's treat people as well as we treat animals.
Outside Magazine, November 2009
“The rest of the world is not made up of 'affluent white people who enjoy nature hikes,' says Nature Conservancy scientist Peter Kareiva. 'Conservation today means meeting everybody's needs'...Environmentalists have always worked with local people, he points out; that's not new. 'The difference is that now we're being more explicit about it. Instead of collecting data to see how the birds and trees are doing, we do household surveys to see, if we set up a marine protected area, whether the people in those communities feel better off.'”
The Thought Leader Interview: A leading proponent of natural capital valuation says we can build long-term prosperity by assigning prices to the ecosystems next door.
Strategy + Business, Winter 2009: November 24, 2009 (PDF)
“GRETCHEN DAILY: 'Since the dawn of humanity, people have been a small-time force on the planet. Except for matters of local scarcity, nature's life support systems were free and abundant. We never had to think about the dangers of running out of fertile soil, clean water, or pollinators (such as bees, birds, and bats) that made it possible to reap a harvest; an ozone layer to shield us from ultraviolet radiation; or forests to soak up precipitation and control flooding. Before the late 20th century, anyone living in Louisiana could take for granted that the barrier islands off the coast would help protect them from storms.
Today, that has changed. Shoreline ecosystems have been so eroded by development that many communities were more vulnerable to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and to the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The world's population is close to 7 billion now, and many people in emerging countries hope to live like the Americans they see on television shows. They’re going to demand more protein, such as beef or chicken, in their diets, which will require a sixfold increase in the amount of grain consumed per capita. That would require much more arable land than we have on the planet, even if we cut down all the remaining natural forests. And if we did do that, the increase in greenhouse gases would make the risks of climate change far worse.
In other words, humanity is rapidly liquidating its own long-term life support systems. And we've only just begun to pay the price. Anywhere you look, there is suddenly a zero-sum game when it comes to land, water, or other key natural resources. We can't afford to go on treating nature like an all-you-can-eat buffet. We need to recognize that there are a ton of people sitting around this one little table, and we’ve got to establish both prices and table manners to sustain the bounty.'”
Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature
Nature 462: 270-271, November 18, 2009 (DOI)
“Economists have been working on attaching monetary value to components of natural systems since at least the 1960s, evaluating the cost of damage caused by oil spills, for example. But environmental activists and conservationists didn't pay this work much attention. Many felt that nature should be saved not for it price, but for its own sake...Daily focuses much of her energy on the Natural Capital Project, a joint effort she brokered between Stanford, the conservation group WWF and the Nature Conservancy. The project, which she co-directs, is developing a software system to help people weigh up the value of land in terms of ecosystem services, alongside its value for building houses or other development. Maps of an area are layered with information — much of which can be displayed in dollars — such as which parts of the landscape are best for filtering water, where the real-estate is most valuable, where the most carbon can be stored and where the biodiversity is highest. Such maps could help governmental organizations evaluate, for example, the cost of building on land that provides free water filtration if the development would then require the construction of a costly water plant. 'We can bring about this transformation if we supply tools that make it easy for decision-makers to compare alternative scenarios,' she says.”
How to place a price tag on Mother Nature
“Peter Kareiva: 'Human beings have known for centuries that nature has tremendous assets that are key to human well-being and that have concrete economic value. Nature not only provides us food, water, fuel and fiber; it also helps to prevent soil erosion and floods...When we destroy natural ecosystems, we lose these assets and the services they provide to us. Putting an accurate value on these ecosystem services could make protecting those services even more attractive to business, policymakers and the public.'”
Stanford’s Gretchen Daily wins $420,000 award for finding ways to save biodiversity
Stanford Report, July 29, 2009
“The announcement also noted that Daily founded the Stanford-based Natural Capital Project, 'integrating ecology and economics,' and that she 'has constantly asserted that participation by the private sector is required for sustainable economic advancement which takes environmental conservation into consideration.'”
NOAA chief steps up push for 'catch shares'
Gloucester Daily Times, June 9, 2009
“‘In her address yesterday, Lubchenco also gave glowing references to the ‘Natural Capital Project,’ another hybrid concept in which private interests and public interests intersect to guild policy.”
Healthy food, healthier watershed
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, May 2009
“Driss Ennaanay, Lead Hydologist for the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University (Stanford, CA), says he expects regions throughout the world to adopt similar programs in the near future. Ennaanay, who has worked with research teams on ecosystem service projects, explains that, while farmers cannot be forced to incorporate practices that will hamper their economic viability, those who do not use overly intense farming practices should be given a fighting chance. ‘When farmers [can sell to people] who will buy their produce at a reasonable price, it will improve their management practices’, says Ennaanay.”
Hungry for Land
“More holistic appraisals of land development have in fact been incubating for over a decade. At places like...Stanford's Natural Capital Project, and the Stockholm Resilience Center, researchers are developing and testing models that ask - from pollination, carbon capture, and water filtration services to value as both genetic reservoir and tourist trap - how much is a chunk of the Earth really worth? In all likelihood, what's currently being paid for leased farmland is a paltry sum compared to its full systemic worth.”
Paradise Found: Paying ranchers to restore Hawaii's great forests
Stanford StoryBank, April 20, 2009
“‘Partly as a result of the EVP [Woods Institute Environmental Venture Project Grant] and a series of concurrent, related efforts, the InVEST software system has been developed for mapping and valuing natural capital,’ Daily explained. ‘We're now testing and refining the software for major resource decisions in landscapes around the world—in China, Colombia, Ecuador, Tanzania, California, Hawaii, and Oregon. There is tremendous demand for this tool and approach to guide strategic investment in natural capital. The time is ripe in both the business and policy arenas.’”
It pays to be nice: Center for Socially Responsible Business hosts first conference to promote civic and environmental responsibility
The Mills Campanil, April 20, 2009
“Keynote speakers taught participants [140 students and business leaders] how businesses can provide economic incentives to encourage activities such as investing in green buildings and employee volunteerism. ‘We're bringing methods to the table where there was no information there at all,’ said Katie Arkema, the first speaker and ecologist with the Natural Capital Project.”
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Natural value
“Worldwide momentum seems to be growing for an approach to environmental protection based on the 'ecosystem services' that nature provides for humans...a special issue of the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment offers some badly needed hard science on the subject. In one paper, for example, computer modelling of land use in the Willamette Basin in Oregon shows that commercial development ceases to be the most rational use of land when the simulation incorporates even conservatively.”
Change We Can Invest In
Conservation Magazine, February 3, 2009
“By plugging in land use change scenarios from Oregon's Willamette Basin, the team found that there was little tradeoff between ecosystem service and biodiversity goals. They also realized that if landowners were paid for the value of only one such service – carbon sequestration – then conservation would actually be worth more to them than development.”
Ecosystem services – out of the wilderness?
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, February 2009
“This really feels like a tipping point”, says Stanford University biologist Gretchen Daily...“Suddenly, there's a lot of change at the highest levels, supporting grassroots efforts.”
Natural Capital Project to develop marine conservation software
Stanford Report, November 25, 2008
“The Natural Capital Project...has been awarded a two-year, $1.97 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a software program for mapping and evaluating the economic benefits provided by temperate marine ecosystems. Called Marine InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs), the proposed software will give policymakers and other stakeholders an easy-to-use program for calculating the multitude of services that people derive from ocean ecosystems and incorporating those values into the planning process. ”
Putting a Price Tag on Nature
University of Washing Biology E-news, November 6, 2008
“[Heather Tallis] says the overarching goal of the project is to 'bring more information about the true value of nature to people affecting decisions,' including those in government, the World Bank, corporations, conservation organizations and affectted communities. One way the project is moving toward its goal is by developing a tool that can standardize the practice of assigning value to ecosystem services.”
How to do your bit for the planet
New Scientist, October 15, 2008
Gretchen Daily suggests, “Set up a modest pilot project to invest in natural capital, focusing on what's most important in your community or sphere of work - like forests for climate stabilization, wetlands for water purification and flood control, or scenic hedgerows and natural areas in rural countryside for crop pollination, tourism, and recreation. Then scale up.”
Mother Nature's Sum
Miller-McCune, September 24, 2008
“[The Natural Capital Project] is the first concerted effort to put practical meat on the bones of ecosystem-services theory and brings together a number of demonstration projects in California, Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Tanzania and China...[They] are developing a software system called InVEST, which is short for Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs. InVEST can analyze a particular area and 'light up' portions of the landscape that can provide the highest ecosystem-services returns.”
Hiring Mother Earth To Do Her Thing
Utne Reader, September 1, 2008
“All things considered, [Gretchen] Daily would rather be tramping around some bug-infested tropical forest than navigating the canyons of Wall Street. But as a young scientist doing research in Costa Rica, Daily realized that large-scale solutions to environmental destruction must be embedded in a system of economic incentives. 'In many parts of the world, there’s no way to feed one’s family and conserve nature. People just don’t have that choice,' she says. 'If they’re not making money, it’s not going to happen.'”
The Economics of Conservation: Natural Capital Project Helps Determine the Cash Value of Nature
triplepundit.com, August 27, 2008
“The Natural Capital Project brings together some of the brightest minds in both ecology and finance...InVEST is a software modeling tool that allows government officials, conservationists, farmers, and other landowners a means of making informed decisions on land and ecosystem use by demonstrating a future cost/benefit analysis those decisions will make for people and the environment.”
Biologists say individual actions are key to ensuring biodiversity, healthy future
Stanford StoryBank, August 22, 2008
“The researchers were optimistic about efforts like the Natural Capital Project, a joint effort of Stanford, the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund to align financial and conservation incentives and integrate the ecosystem-service values into land-use decisions.”
Stanford biologist sees money in preservation
San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2008
“Gretchen Daily wants to protect the planet by convincing governments and big investors there's money to be made - or at least saved - in preserving nature instead of exploiting it.”
Development vs. Paradise Lost: Assessing the costs
Stanford Report, July 17, 2008
“Part of the answer may lie in a software program being developed by [Gretchen] Daily and her colleagues at the Natural Capital Project, Peter Kareiva and Taylor Ricketts, heads of science at the Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund, respectively. The software is called InVEST, which stands for Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs.”
Mark His Words: New Nature Conservancy prez Mark Tercek
“I think you could say these economic values have never been properly calculated or factored into an enormous range of economic decision-making. Organizations like The Nature Conservancy have a great opportunity to help governments and businesspeople better understand the dollar-and-cents values of those services.”
The Market Force of Nature: Putting the "invisible hand" to work for nature could reshape the values of capitalism
“We're trying to find ways to get information about the value of ecosystems and the benefits that they provide to governments, conservation organizations, and development banks," says [Heather] Tallis. "The whole underlying thinking is that with better information about these values, people will make better decisions.”
Earth for Hire
Common Ground Magazine, April 2008
“In 2006, Stanford's Woods Institute, where [Gretchen] Daily is a senior fellow, joined forces with the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund to create the Natural Capital Project, which is developing tools for measuring the services specific ecosystems provide, determining what they're worth, and identifying who's benefiting from them.”
Stanford biologist Gretchen Daily awarded Sophie Prize
MSNBC/Associated Press, March 4, 2008
“Daily is recognized for pioneering research that blends economics and ecology. The author of three books, including The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, Daily co-founded the Natural Capital Project, which is developing practical ways to quantify the economic value of ecosystems and the services they provide.”
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Paying for Nature
China Dialogue, February 18, 2008
“Beijing's strategy for clean water during the Olympics? Pay rural farmers to 'grow' it. Katherine Ellison explores China's new hope for conserving the precious natural resources it has left. Last September...several Chinese government-affiliated scientists met with a team from the Natural Capital Project - a year-old partnership between Stanford University, The Nature Conservancy and WWF. The project has developed mapping and modeling software to pinpoint landscapes where conservation makes the most sense, a tool that has great potential to help the Chinese government fine-tune its concept of preserving 'ecological function zones.'”
Global Vision Award 2007, Honorable Mention: Innovation
Travel + Leisure, November 2007
“This group of scientists and ecologists has developed a powerful computer application and modeling system that evaluates the economic benefits of different land-use scenarios. In other words, they’ve got the tools to prove that natural sites, if left alone, may be more valuable than if developed—and it gives them a persuasive way to argue to government and private industry that a healthy ecosystem is a good investment.”
Innovate or Watch Rare Species Disappear
New Scientist, September 13, 2007
“Championed by [Gretchen] Daily and Peter Kareiva, lead scientist with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), among others, the [goal of an emerging trend known as the “ecosystem services” approach] is to put a monetary value on the services that healthy ecosystems provide for human populations - from the role of forest cover in preventing soil erosion and flooding, to the pollination of crops by insects, and revenues from ecotourism. Conservationists would then work with local governments, industry and the financial markets to set up incentives encouraging measures for the protection of ecosystems and the vital services they provide.”
Natural Capital Project Names R. Michael Wright as First Managing Director
Stanford Report, September 12, 2007
“In modern society, we seem to have lost touch of the fundamental dependence we have on conserving nature,” said Wright, who has served as director of conservation and sustainable development at the Chicago-based John T. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation since 2002. “It is critical to show how humans benefit from nature by calculating the real economic value of those benefits. That's exactly what the Natural Capital Project wants to achieve.”
Q&A with Gretchen Daily
Stanford Report, August 22, 2007
“We want to make it easy for decision-makers to assess natural capital stocks in both biophysical and economic terms. Our first big effort is developing what's basically a calculator of the value of natural capital that we're calling InVEST - Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs. This is a software system that will let you put in basic data on your place to determine the potential for producing all the things we get from ecosystems, not only crops and other commodities but climate stability, flood control services, ecotourism and so forth.”
Sustainable Agriculture Should Become New Farm Bill Priority
San Jose Mercury News, July 26, 2007
“[Senator] Harkin's (D-IA) draft bill is notable for using the phrase ‘ecosystem services’ for the first time in a Farm Bill debate, as he advocates rewarding farmers who increase benefits such as soil fertility and pollinator habitat. The choice of wording highlights an increasing pragmatism among environmental advocates who are convinced it's time to focus American taxpayers' attention less on threatened peregrine falcons and more on humans' threatened life support systems.”
Editorial by Katherine Ellison and Buzz Thompson
Conserving Life and Livelihood: Does conservation really benefit the poor?
“Peter Kareiva of Seattle, Washington, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, presented an analysis of almost 200 development projects run by the World Bank, some of which had environmental components. Encouragingly, he found that development projects with built-in conservation goals were no less effective than those without them, as measured by the World Bank's evaluations.”
How to Get Wall Street to Hug a Tree
Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2007
“Environmentalists and investment bankers are working together to put a price tag on nature. The new ‘greens’ think that human beings are ready to start paying for Mother Nature’s services - and that calculating their financial worth will save the planet.”
Scientists Discuss the Importance of Ethics in Creating a Culture of Sustainability
Stanford Report, March 7, 2007
“Paul Ehrlich cited the Natural Capital Project, a ‘new and unprecedented partnership’ involving Stanford, the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund, which, he said, ‘aspires to provide maps of nature's services, assess their values in economic and other terms, and - for the first time on any significant scale - incorporate those values into resource decisions.’”
The New Environmentali$m
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, January 2007
“The basic error in the way we calculate GDPs is that they’ve never included the huge economic value of ecosystems. Forests help purify water and control soil erosion, for example, and coral reefs nurture fish.”
Natural Capital Project to Quantify True Value of Nature, Ecosystem Services
Stanford Report, November 8, 2006
“This project brings together the expertise of leading field conservationists and a world-class university,” said Steve McCormick, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. “We are really excited about this project,” said Carter Roberts, President and CEO of WWF. “It’s one of the coolest things in conservation today.”
Capturing Carbon Tips Cost-Benefit Balance in Favor of Conservation
Scientific American,October 31, 2006
“Efforts to save wildlife often play out within a win-lose framework that pits conservation against economic opportunity,” Kai Chan adds. “The management of both land- and sea-scapes will produce far greater benefits for people when we analyze ecosystem services in a systematic fashion.”
Conservation Central's The Daily Show
Ecosystem Marketplace, August 1, 2006
“Local researchers and the three institutions will develop maps and dynamic models of the flow of ecosystem services, in both biophysical and economic terms, in each region. ‘At a minimum, we'd be mapping out carbon, hydrological services - and there are different ones - and then biodiversity at the three main sites,’ Daily says.”
Video & Audio
What is nature worth?
Our World 2.0, UN University, January 18, 2010
Streaming Video: “We need a new business model. What we need to start doing is recognizing the value of many other types of benefits [from nature], like water purification, climate stabilization, and biodiversity.” Gretchen Daily, Director, Natural Capital Project.
Why Ecosystem Services Matter
60-Second Earth, Scientific American February 5, 2009
Podcast: “In this world, cost benefit analysis and dollars are how decisions get made…When nature and the benefits that nature are not converted to dollars then it can't be on the table for those discussions and, in a way, nature's not getting credit for what it's doing.” Peter Kareiva, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy.
Putting a Price on Nature
Podcast: “As the economy struggles, a lot of people are thinking about prices these days. That's the focus of a new project at Stanford University, too, but their aim is to put a value on something that's never had a price tag - nature (Reporter's Notes, Podcast Archive).” Rebecca Shaw, Heather Tallis, and Gretchen Daily.
Beyond the Frontier - Ecosystems at Your Service
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecological Society of America, January 28, 2009
Podcast: “The February issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is a Special Issue dedicated entirely to discussing the role of ecosystem services in conservation and resource management. In the latest installment of Beyond the Frontier, listen to Peter Kareiva explain the importance of these services, describe how “value” may be assigned to them, and reveal what he would like President Obama to know about them.” Peter Kareiva, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy.
Discussion of Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, January 14, 2009
Streaming Video: “'By providing dozens of concrete examples of how we depend on and benefit from the environment, Sustaining Life is “a wonderful rebuttal to people who call conservationists treehuggers,' said Wright. Yet he reminded the audience that the path from species to valuable product is serendipitous and unpredictable.” Michael Wright, Managing Director, Natural Capital Project.
California Colloquium on Water
Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Water Resource Center Archives, March 11, 2008
Streaming Video: “Protecting Watershed Services Through Law, Regulation and Markets,” Buzz Thompson, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University (YouTube, RealMedia, PDF of PowerPoint).
Ecosystem Services Perceptions in Clayquot Sound, British Columbia
Carleton College Alumni Profile: Bessie Schwarz, February 19, 2008
Streaming Video: “For an ecosystem services study, Schwarz interviewed 17 Clayoquot Sound residents—those employed in ecotourism, commercial fishing, and aquaculture—about environmental issues and how they perceive and value the ecosystem in which they live. The study was supported by a fellowship from Carleton College, the Natural Capital Project, and the University of British Columbia,” Bessie Schwarz, Research Intern, Natural Capital Project.
Ecosystem Services in Decision-making: Stepping into reality
Ecological Society of America and Society for Ecological Restoration Joint Meeting, August 9, 2007
Streaming Video: “What's Poverty Got To Do With It?” Peter Kareiva, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy.
Ecosystem Services in Decision-making: Stepping into reality
Ecological Society of America and Society for Ecological Restoration Joint Meeting, August 9, 2007
Streaming Video: “Lessons from the field: What we know about implementation of ecosystem service projects and payment for ecosystem services in the real world,” Heather Tallis, Lead Scientist, Natural Capital Project.
Made in China: Energy and Environment Public Lecture Series
Streaming Video: “Towards Harmony of Man and Nature in China--Sustaining nature's life-support systems,” Christine Tam, Director, Natural Capital Project.
Natural Capital Project Launch Event: 2006 Science for Nature Symposium, Ecosystem Services
Hosted by WWF in Washington, DC, October 31 - November 1, 2006
Streaming Videos and Slideshows featuring: Pam Matson, Jeffrey Sachs, Walt Reid, Paul Ehrlich, Franz Tattenbach, Steve Polasky, Neil Burgess, Tom Lovejoy, Andrew Balmford, Christine Tam, Stefano Pagiola, Miguel Martinez Tuna, Taylor Ricketts, Gordon Orians, Alvaro Umana, Rebecca Shaw, John-O Niles, Ian Calder, and Rashid Sumaila.