Natural capital
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"Natural capital is the extension of the economic notion of capital (manufactured means of production) to goods and services relating to the natural environment. Natural capital is thus the stock of natural ecosystems that yields a flow of valuable ecosystem goods or services into the future. For example, a stock of trees or fish provides a flow of new trees or fish, a flow which can be indefinitely sustainable. Natural capital may also provide services like recycling wastes or water catchment and erosion control. Since the flow of services from ecosystems requires that they function as whole systems, the structure and diversity of the system are important components of natural capital.", as quoted from The Encyclopedia of Earth.
See also
- Bioeconomics (biophysical)
- Conservation biology
- Earth Economics
- Ecodynamics
- Ecological Economics
- Ecological deficit
- Ecology
- Energy and Environment
- Econophysics
- Energy Accounting
- Environmental economics
- Environmental protection
- Five Capitals
- Habitat conservation
- Natural Capital Initiative
- Oil depletion
- Population dynamics
- Renewable resource
- Thermoeconomics
- Sustainable development
- Sustainability
