How is the UK really doing? 'Environment' is one of five new recommended indicators of national success
9 Nov 2015
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A walk through the field of environmental economics
- 6 Nov 2015
What does economics mean for valuing nature? Valuing Nature's Ece Ozdemiroglu, the Economics Lead in the Programme Coordination Team, tells us more.
Economics is all about allocating limited resources amongst our unlimited needs and wants. How we use, manage and protect environmental resources is therefore particularly interesting to economists.
NCI Dialogue brings experts together to discuss natural capital management beyond boundaries
- 16 Oct 2015
Water is worth a million Gareth Bales
9 Oct 2015
A nature index put together by BBC Earth has found that, when it comes to value to the planet, Gareth Bales doesn't break any records. According to the index, water, the most valuable thing on the index valued at a whopping 46 trillion pounds, is worth 980,000 times as much as the Welsh football player.
To read more, please go to the BBC website.
RCUK / Innovate UK Urban Living Partnership - call for pilot phase
29 Sep 2015
Combined funding of £2m is available from Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Innovate UK for a pilot call, to be distributed between up to five projects each focused on a different city or urban area.
Do ecosystem services really win arguments for biodiversity conservation? New report from BESAFE investigates
- 29 Sep 2015
BESAFE (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Arguments for our Future Environment) recently produced a report on how we can use the value of nature to argue more effectively for conserving biodiversity. In a guest blog, the authors discuss the results that show a surprising range of motivations behind the conservation of nature.
The government's response to Natural Capital Committee's report is now live
22 Sep 2015
The government have just released their response to the Natural Capital Committee's third State of Natural Capital report, published in early 2015. Valuing Nature's Rosie Hails is one of the Committee Members.
The hows and whys of valuing nature - an interview with Rosie Hails
17 Sep 2015
Throughout the year we will be conducting interviews with members of the Programme Coordination Team (PCT). In these interviews the members will discuss their area of expertise and provide some insight into their role within the PCT.
Global Food Security funding call: "Resilience of the UK food system in a global context"
16 Sep 2015
The first call of the new Global Food Security programme "Resilience of the UK food system in a global context" is now open. £14M is available over five years to support interdisciplinary research projects.
The call is relevant to Valuing Nature concepts about the different types of valuation needed for decisions that affect the environment, for example:
Call for abstracts - Applied Environmental Economics conference
15 Sep 2015
The UK Network of Environmental Economists will hold its annual Applied Environmental Economics conference on Friday, 18th March 2016 at The Royal Society in London. Abstracts are now being selected for presentation.