REVIEW: Towards a risk register for natural capital
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REVIEW: Towards a risk register for natural capital
Natural capital is essential for goods and services on which people depend. Yet pressures on the environment mean that natural capital assets are continuing to decline and degrade, putting such benefits at risk. Systematic monitoring of natural assets is a major challenge that could be both unaffordable and unmanageable without a way to focus efforts. Here we introduce a simple approach, based ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Ecology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0021-8901
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12431