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The Natural Capital Accounts (NCA) for Forests covering the period 2016 to 2020
Technical Report
This report highlights the changes in animal populations, their use, and partial accounts for the...
Technical Report
The Rapid Environment Economic Assessment (REEA) model can be used to analyse government investment...
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Economic Analysis: Environmental Economic Accounts Compendium
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) summarises the key findings of the environmental economic accounts for energy, fisheries and minerals in this report. Indicators from the environmental economic accounts tables are derived in a consistent, comparable and coherent way.
Indonesia: Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions about WAVES-supported work on Natural Capital Accounting in Indonesia.
The water sector in Guatemala: a cup half-full or half-empty?
Water accounts in Guatemala revealed important national issues concerning quantities, users, and productivity.
Natural capital accounting: providing information for poverty reduction
Poor people are dependent on natural capital for income. Not enough is known about the state of natural capital, how it is being used and its value. Natural capital accounting could be a system for collating this information and presenting it in a way that could inform poverty reduction strategies and national development.
Country Brief: Indonesia
How can Indonesia utilise its natural resources sustainably to achieve development goals when it faces increasingly severe natural disasters and a soaring population?
Stocks and flows of natural and human-derived capital in ecosystem services
Using worked examples in a stocks and flows systems approach, we show that both natural capital (NC) and human-derived (produced, human, social, cultural, financial) capital (HDC) are necessary to create ecosystem services at many levels.