Natural capital accounting will confirm what we know — without change, are headed for environmental disaster resulting from economic growth. We propose a natural bank, new institution to help maintain adequacy and chart course sustainable future via accounting.

Two of the first volumes this year of the Proceedings B of the Royal Society have been dedicated to the issue of sustainable agriculture, signalling researchers’ concerns about the urgent need to address this issue. The editors, Chris Pollock, Jules Pretty, Ian Crute, Chris Leaver and Howard Dalton, highlight issues that continue to fail to impact more widely. And they are blunt in their assess...

Valuing natural capital is fundamental to measuring sustainability. The United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, and other agencies have called for inclusion of the value of natural capital in sustainability metrics, such as inclusive wealth. Much has been written about the importance of natural capital, but consistent, rigorous valuation approaches compatible with the pricing of tradi...

BACKGROUND Although natural resources play a central role in rural livelihoods across the globe, little research has explored the relationship between migration and natural capital use, particularly in combination with other livelihood capitals (i.e., human, social, financial and physical). OBJECTIVE Grounded in the rural livelihood framework, this paper explores the association between the l...