Guidebook Resources Added
An Accounting Approach to Ecosystem Services
In NESP's February webinar, Kenneth Bagstad and Carl Shapiro of the U.S. Geological Survey and Carter Ingram of Ernst and Young discussed natural capital accounting. Watch the recording
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- Wednesday, April 26, 11 a.m. EST
In July 2016, the Natural Capital Coalition released the
Natural Capital Protocol
, the first globally standardized framework for identifying, measuring and valuing natural capital in business. The Coalition is an international collaboration between nearly 250 global organizations from across the international economy. The Protocol is a decision-making framework, and does not prescribe specific tools or methodologies. In order to connect business with the tools they need to make better decisions, World Business Council For Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has developed a Natural Capital Protocol Toolkit. On April 26, listen to Doug MacNair from Environmental Resource Management and Eva Zabey from WBCSD discuss how using the Protocol and the Toolkit can highlight risks and uncover opportunities in global businesses.
Advanced registration is required.
- Thursday, May 4, 2 p.m. EST
A webinar hosted by the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks (GCPO) Landscape Conservation Cooperative will discuss attitudes of landowners toward ecosystem services as elicited by a survey-a project in which NESP researchers participated.
The webinar will focus on survey findings as well as a social network analysis of the various types of conservation practitioners who work with private landowners in the GCPO. Advanced registration is required.
- Thursday, May 25, 3 p.m. EST
Released earlier this year, The Ecosystem Services Toolkit was co-authored by Susan Preston of Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne of McGill University. Created on behalf of Canada's Federal-Provincial-Territorial governments' Value of Nature to Canadians Study Taskforce, the toolkit provides practical step-by-step advice on ecosystem services approaches; completing an ecosystem service assessment; understanding what the results of such an assessment mean; and incorporating ecosystem services analyses and considerations in a wide range of policy, decision, and management processes.
Advanced registration is required.
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- March 27. Ecosystem Services Training Session. Durham, NC.
- March 28. Panel on NEPA and Ecosystem Services. Durham, NC.
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