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Protecting People Through Nature: Natural World Heritage Sites as Drivers of Sustainable Development
This report identifies five key principles that are consistent across examples of well managed World Heritage sites, which can help decision makers achieve an appropriate and equitable balance between conservation, sustainability and development.
Threading natural capital into cotton: Doing business with nature
This report by the Cotton Action Research Collaboratory (ARC) explores the possibilities for meeting future demand for high quality, ethically sourced and sustainably grown cotton. This ARC explored 15 different interventions and the evidence of positive natural capital impacts for each.
What is Natural Capital?
What is Natural Capital? (US Department of Commerce website)
Natural Capital Accounting in Action: Australia's water accounts inform policy to tackle impact of drought
Data from water accounts were one of the few reliable sources of information to support economic modeling to assess Australia's proposed policies.
Natural Capital Accounting in Action: Energy accounts inform decisions about carbon tax in South Africa
Data from energy accounts in South Africa helped to assess the effectiveness of a carbon tax and its economic impact.
The accounting push and the policy pull
Why have public policy imperatives not yet pulled environmental accounting into the mainstream?
Ecosystem Accounting Limburg Province, the Netherlands - Part 2: Monetary supply and use accounts
Two reports describe the results of a pilot study on ecosystem accounting in Limburg Province, the Netherlands. The first report focuses on the monetary supply and use of ecosystem services, while this second report describes the monetary valuation approach and monetary supply and use tables for the same ecosystem services.
Ecosystem Accounting Limburg Province, the Netherlands- Part 1: Physical supply and condition accounts
Two reports describe the results of a pilot study on ecosystem accounting in Limburg Province, the Netherlands.The first report focuses on the physical supply of ecosystem services and on ecosystem condition indicators.
Hacia la construcción de la cuenta del agua a nivel nacional
La primera aproximación de la Cuenta del Agua de Colombia a nivel nacional.
International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) provides coherent principles, concepts and definitions for the collection and compilation of water statistics on a comparable basis.