About

The Valuing Nature Programme

The five year, £6.5m Valuing Nature Programme aims to better understand and represent the complexities of the natural environment in valuation analyses and decision making. It will consider the economic, societal and cultural value of ecosystem services.  

The Programme will fund research and support researchers in making links with policymakers, businesses and practitioners through the Valuing Nature Network.

A Programme Coordination Team is running a series of events and activities to develop the Valuing Nature Network and to help build an interdisciplinary research community capable of working across the natural, biological and social sciences, and the arts and humanities.

Programme Research Goals

The programme will fund research related to valuation in two areas:

• the role biodiversity and ecosystem processes play in human health
• the links between ecosystem services and tipping points. 

The Valuing Nature Programme is funded by:

• the Natural Environment Research Council
• the Economic and Social Research Council
• the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
• the Arts and Humanities Research Council
• the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs