While many countries across the globe have experienced strong economic growth and improvements in human development outcomes over the last quarter of a century, natural resources continue to be ...

Most people understand that investing in the future is important, and that goes for conserving nature and natural resources, too. But in the case of investing in such "natural" assets as groundwater, ...

Russia, the world’s largest transcontinental country and spanning eleven time zones, is richly endowed with natural resources. This vast country plays a crucial role in global energy and resource ...

As COP28 kicks off, we’re presented with another opportunity to examine the “natural capital paradox.” It’s a theory on how African countries, which abound with natural and human capital, could lead ...

Michigan State University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Experts widely agree that human activities are harming the global environment. Since the Industrial Revolution, ...

Rio, 17 June 2012 – The world's fixation on economic growth ignores a rapid and largely irreversible depletion of natural resources that will seriously harm future generations, according to a report ...

Scientists have adapted traditional asset valuation approaches to measure the value of such natural capital assets, linking economic measurements of ecosystem services with models of natural dynamics ...