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
- The intersection of justice and urban greening: Future directions and opportunities for research and practice. (2024). Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 128279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128279
- Bringing nature into decision-making. (2024). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1903). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0313
- Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures. (2024). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1903), 20220328. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0328
- Social–ecological benefits of land–sea planning at multiple scales in Mesoamerica. (2024). Nature Sustainability, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01325-7
- Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century. (2024). Ecosystem Services, 66, 101610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101610