Natural Capital Conversations

We will explore whether the last ten years of substantial investments in resilience programs is helping development practice to better engage in complex and turbulent contexts.

Cities must manage interacting challenges such as climate change, air and water pollution, flooding, heat waves, affordable housing

The integration of global economic models with ecosystem service models can quantify how nature contributes to the economic bottom-line

We will discuss the role of nature-based solutions for increasing water security as a critical mode of climate adaptation.

We will discuss participatory methods for characterizing and mapping cultural ecosystem services related to land.

We will have a discussion session on qualitative and quantitative methods for evaluating cultural services of people in the past and present.

This session will explore what the Anthropocene means for the ocean and how to steer it in a sustainable and equitable way.