Via EarthTrends.
Restoring Nature’s Capital, a recent publication from the World Resources Institute (WRI), proposes an innovative strategy for business, governments, and civil society to reverse current ecosystem degradation. By treating natural systems as huge capital assets vital to our continued economic and social growth, the report takes a fundamentally human approach to valuing nature’s goods and services. According to the authors, sustaining healthy ecosystems and investing wisely in “nature’s capital” will depend heavily on the concept of governance: who makes decisions, how are they made, and with what information.