Research
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The Natural Capital Project advances research frontiers focused on:
- Less-studied yet vital ecosystem services relating to health including improving mental health, promoting physical activity, and supporting urban biodiversity as well as investigating the effects of land use change on vector-borne disease.
- Equity in access to nature and its benefits - developing new assessment approaches.
- Resilience of interconnected human and natural systems.
- Modeling of ecosystem services at the global scale using high performance computing (HPC).
- Using AI for optimization and to generate insights from new data sources such as social media, satellite imagery, and human movement data.
- Unifying ecosystem service data, modeling, and visualization through standardized APIs.
- Connecting natural capital assessments and accounting (NCAA) to policy and finance decisions pathways.
Recent Publications
- Landscapes—A lens for assessing sustainability. (2025). Landscape Ecology, 40(2), 28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-02007-7
- Linking smart cities and SDGs through descriptive analysis of US municipalities. (2025). Nature Cities, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00192-9
- Agriculture and conservation. (2025). Living Nature in a Globalised World, IUCN Flagship Report no.2 . International Union for Conservation of Nature. https://doi.org/10.2305/AMHX3737
- World Bank Group, . (2024). Tanzania Country Climate and Development Report . CCDR Series. World Bank Group. https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42483
- AI-based coral species discrimination: A case study of the Siderastrea Atlantic Complex. (2024). PLOS ONE, 19(12), e0312494. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312494