Understand ecosystem services
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ARIES (2020)
ARIES strives to quantify the benefits that nature provides to society in a manner that accounts for dynamic complexity and its consequences, but keeps models clear enough to users to remain understandable, usable, and adaptable to conditions of varying data availability.
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Avaliando os benefícios das Soluções Baseadas na Natureza para o planejamento de bacias hidrográficas (2020)
Esta avaliação da paisagem é o resultado da Fase 1 de um projeto de três fases e foi projetada para informar o caminho a se seguir para envolver o setor privado no investimento em soluções baseadas na natureza (SBN).
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Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan (2020)
This report presents an Emergency Recovery Plan to bend the curve of freshwater biodiversity loss.
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Benefit Accounting of Nature-Based Solutions for Watersheds: Guide (2021)
This guide indicates which specific NBS activities can be implemented in various habitats and suggests methods for measuring the benefits.
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Collaborative Conservation and Adaptation Strategy Toolbox (CCAST) (2018)
The Southwest Climate Hub, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Forest Service have collaborated to create an online library of conservation case studies.
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Corporate Water Stewardship and the Case for Green Infrastructure (2018)
This report makes the case for private sector investment in green infrastructure as part of a broader water stewardship approach.
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Green Cities: Good Health (2019)
This web site provides an overview of the scientific evidence of human health and well-being benefits provided by urban forestry and urban greening.
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InVEST (2018)
InVEST is a suite of free, open-source software models used to map and value goods and services from nature.
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Natural Capital Accounting: The Coca-Cola Water Replenishment Program (2016)
This case study examines The Coca-Cola Company’s collaboration with denkstatt to develop a methodology and practical tool that assess the additional ecosystem benefits of water replenishment projects.
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Natural Capital Protocol (2019)
The Protocol offers a standardized framework for the identification, measurement, and valuation of impacts and dependencies on natural capital in order to inform organizational decisions.
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Natural Infrastructure for Business (2015)
A platform that aims to strengthen the business case for investing in natural infrastructure.
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Nature and Health (2014)
This article presents the state of knowledge with regards to human health and well-being from contact with nature.
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Revaluing Ecosystems (2015)
Pathways for scaling up the inclusion of ecosystem value in decision making.
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Valuing Rivers (2018)
This report discusses the need to stop regarding rivers as simply conduits for moving water and recognize the wider value of water.
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Valuing Rivers in the Economy (2020)
The Valuing Rivers in the Economy map outlines the link between GDP and water risk.
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Water Accounting: Independent Estimates of Water Flows, Fluxes, Stocks, Consumption, and Services (2019)
Water accounting is the process of communicating water resources related information and the services generated from consumptive use in a geographical domain in order to describe water resources in a standard context, using clear terminology and a standard data collection system with known quality standards.