Feeling Better? How does nature affect our physical and mental health? Most of us can attest to nature making us ‘feel better’ – an invigorating hike, a relaxing picnic in the park, even a quick cup of tea in the garden, can restore
Dr Barbara Knowles FRSB MBE was a founding leader of the Natural Capital Initiative, and has been involved in our work ever since. Sadly Barbara passed away earlier this month. NCI joins the Royal Society of Biology in sadness at her death and in celebrating
Bruce Howard, the Network Co-ordinator of the Ecosystems Knowledge Network writes about the upcoming conference 'Building Prosperous Cities' on 27 September 2016 where the view of natural capital will be outwards from the City Hall, the office block and the housing block. The classic image of natural capital
Today, WWF-UK launched a new report: ‘A Greener Budget: sustaining our prosperity in a changing world’, the second in a series of WWF publications in the lead up to the spring budget announcement by HM Treasury. The report sets out practical actions for the next
You won’t need a degree in Economics to attend this conference NCI Steering Group member Ece Ozdemiroglu, the founding director of eftec, writes about the natural capital aspects of the upcoming ‘envecon’ conference on Friday 18th March 2016 at the Royal Society, London. envecon is the
NCI is currently scoping a series of activities on sustainable resource management relevant to food and drink. To begin this work, we are carrying out an exercise to identify the key natural capital issues, from a research perspective, on three commodities. We are asking the research community:
Speakers at the Natural Capital Monitoring breakfast briefing: Prof Rosie Hails, Prof Georgina Mace, Mark Gough, Joe Grice (from left to right) On Friday 8th January, NCI hosted a breakfast meeting focussing on natural capital monitoring and data at Charles Darwin House in
