From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources
There is no alternative to placing the economy within the limits of the biosphere. Environmental responsibility starts with properly quantifying the human impact on the ecosystem, and then using the metrics of nature valuation to preserve high-quality life-supporting systems in the long term. This handbook outlines the arguments to show the way.
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
“If nature went public it would be the most valuable stock market flotation of all times.”
Sabine Höhler, W.I.R.E.1
- contributionJulie Le Gall, Olivier Hamant, Luc Merchez, Ioan Negrutiu, Jean-Louis Weber
From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources: Handbook
A global-resources “rush” has led to chronic socio-ecosystemic deficits, thus creating the conditions for local- and global-state shifts within the biosphere and/or society, with unprecedented loss of resilience at all levels. Assessing our resources and permanently accounting for their usage and allocation are imperative to imagining and designing societies that are socio-ecosystemically resilient.
Biosphere, Future, Economy, Capitalism, Extraction
- contributionIoan Negrutiu
From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources: Applications
Alongside the handbook, a pair of practical applications has been conceived to substantiate the “Valuing Nature” issue.
Case Study, Extraction, Speculative, Time
