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Natural Capital Assessment at the National and Sub-National Level: A Guide for Environmental Practitioners
A UNEP guidance document presents eight steps to completing Natural Capital Assessments to inform decision making that supports sustainable economic growth.
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.
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?
Showing the worth: NCA and the design of payments for ecosystem services
Natural capital accounting improves our understanding of how ecosystems become wealth.
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.
Executive Summary: Monitoring the Shift to Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns in the context of the SDGs (English, French, Spanish, Chinese)
This report outlines ways to support monitoring targets and indicators related to Sustainable Development Goal #12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production, in particular by using the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting.
Monitoring the Shift to Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns - in the context of the SDGs
This report outlines ways to support monitoring targets and indicators related to Sustainable Development Goal #12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production, in particular by using the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting.
Tourism satellite account for South Africa (TSA), final 2012 and provisional 2013 and 2014
The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA), final 2012 and provisional 2013 and 2014 covers updated and new provisional figures for the reference years 2013 and 2014 as well as the final results for 2012. It provides an overview of the role that tourism plays in South Africa and provides information on tourism’s contribution to the South African economy in terms of expenditure and employment.
Energy Account, Australia, 2013-14
The Energy Account Australia (EAA) provides statistics to monitor changes in the supply and use of energy over time, both from an economic and an environmental perspective.
Measuring the value of groundwater and other forms of natural capital
Kansas lost approximately $110 million per year (2005 US dollars) of capital value through groundwater withdrawal and changes in aquifer management during the decade spanning 1996–2005.