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Natural Capital Project Newsletter, June 2021 
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Health boost from nature


Trees lining a street may encourage people to take a longer stroll or choose to bike to work. New research shows how access to natural areas in cities can improve human health by supporting physical activity. 

Green economies flow from hydropower


Rafael Schmitt's research focuses on strategic hydropower planning in the Mekong. This month, he'll receive an international award for his collaborative approach.

Pioneering natural capital science

 

NatCap co-founder Gretchen Daily and long-time collaborator Pavan Sukhdev received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement last week. Watch the virtual ceremony

Highlights from our Natural Capital Conversations

 

Communications Intern Talia K. Trepte shares highlights and revisits key takeaways from the 2021 Conversations so far.

The Value of Natural Infrastructure in Urban Planning: Experience from Singapore/Asia
June 22, 6 PM Pacific Time / 9 AM Singapore/Beijing

Cities around the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, are experiencing rapid growth. The high urbanization rates bring challenges of infrastructure development, inequities, and vulnerability to climate risks. For the health and wellbeing of city-dwellers, good urban planning is paramount.

Join a diverse panel of experts as they discuss nature-based solutions and urban planning projects in June's Natural Capital Conversation.

Recent Press & Publications


For better health during the pandemic, is two hours outdoors the new 10,000 steps?
Betsy Morris | Wall Street Journal | February 14, 2021

How much is a tree worth? Investors seek to build a market for nature
By Camilla Hodgson & Billy Nauman | Financial Times | May 19, 2021

Green spaces aren't just for nature — they boost our mental health too
Kate Douglas & Joe Douglas | NewScientist | March 24, 2021

Ah, wilderness! Is nature the tonic we’ve needed for pandemic malaise?
Chris Baraniuk | Knowable Magazine | April 21, 2021
 
Press

Hippos: the dilemma of controlling a charismatic and invasive species. Nota Uniandina. June, 2021.

Wert der Natur: Möchten Sie Ihr romantisches Wochenende in einer Wasseraufbereitungsanlage verbringen? By Andreas von Bubnoff, RiffReporter. May 31, 2021.

These are the human benefits of building nature into our cities. By Sarah Cafasso, World Economic Forum. May 25, 2021.

Nature can boost health of people in cities. By Sarah Cafasso, Futurity. May 18, 2021.

Access to nature can support the overall health of people in cities. By Emily Henderson, News Medical. May 11, 2021.

Researchers say that nature may boost city dwellers’ overall health. Edex Live. May 11, 2021. 

The “Why” Behind 30x30: The State of the Science on Marine Protected Area Benefits | OpenChannels: Sustainable Ocean Management and Conservation. April 29, 2021. 

“Ecosystem measure” designed to address shortcomings of GDP approved by UN. Mirage News, April 22, 2021. 

USDA grant to support expansion of online tool for pollinator conservationPenn State News. April 14, 2021. 

Take a tech break and get outside! By Michele S. Byers, Medford Central Record. April 9, 2021.

Linking Birds, Farmer Attitudes and Conservation. By Matthew L. Miller, Cool Green Science. April 7, 2021.

Balancing business and biodiversity: A step in the right direction? By James Bowers, Polytechnique Insights. April 2, 2021.

Nature Wonders: One More Great Thing Green Spaces Can Do. By Rain Jordan, Nature World News. March 26, 2021.

Home Waters: WSC Board Member Dr. Mary Ruckelshaus. By Ramona DeNeis, Wild Salmon Center. March 17, 2021.

Opinion: Commentary: Step into Nature for Improved Health. By Paul Gilbert, Mount Vernon Gazette. March 11, 2021.

U.N. puts nature’s value on the balance sheet. Will it work? By Jack Graham, Thomson Reuters Foundation. March 11, 2021.

Rachel Carson Prize shortlist: People and Nature Award for Early Career Researchers 2020. Relational Thinking. March 1, 2021.

Expert: Exposure to nature boosts wellbeing and cognitive function, reduces stress. By Jessica Yi, KCBS Radio. February 19, 2021.

As nature declines, so does human quality of life, study finds. By Ashoka Mukpo, Mongabay Environmental News. February 9, 2021

Biden’s priorities will fail unless tackled together. By Heather Tallis, Steve Polasky, and Taylor Ricketts, TheHill. December 30, 2020.

IonE researchers work to map local food insecurity. By Lauren Klemstein, Institute on the Environment. December 18, 2020.

‘From rivers in the sky to bees in the fields, healthy land enables our life.’ The Times of India. December 12, 2020. 

Shining a light on ecosystem services.  By Natalie Parletta, Cosmos Magazine. December 9, 2020.

Will climate change bring cultural change? Envirobites. December 8, 2020.

Meet the Researcher: Saleh Mamun By June Breneman, UMN News. December 2, 2020.

Publications

Adger, W. N., Crépin, A.-S., Folke, C., Ospina, D., Chapin, F. S., Segerson, K., Seto, K. C., Anderies, J. M., Barrett, S., Bennett, E. M., Daily, G., Elmqvist, T., Fischer, J., Kautsky, N., Levin, S. A., Shogren, J. F., van den Bergh, J., Walker, B., & Wilen, J. (2020). Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change. One Earth3(4), 396–399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.016

Arkema, K. K., Fisher, D. M., Wyatt, K., Wood, S. A., & Payne, H. J. (2021). Advancing Sustainable Development and Protected Area Management with Social Media-Based Tourism Data. Sustainability13(5), 2427. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052427

Brauman, K. A., Garibaldi, L. A., Polasky, S., Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y., Brancalion, P. H. S., DeClerck, F., Jacob, U., Mastrangelo, M. E., Nkongolo, N. V., Palang, H., Pérez-Méndez, N., Shannon, L. J., Shrestha, U. B., Strombom, E., & Verma, M. (2020). Global trends in nature’s contributions to people. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences117(51), 32799–32805. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010473117

Butterfield, H. S., Kelsey, T. R., & Hart, A. K. (Eds.). (2020). Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes: A California Study in Rebalancing the Needs of People and Nature. Island Press. https://islandpress.org/books/rewilding-agricultural-landscapes

Cassin, J., Matthews, J., & Gunn, E. (Eds.). (2021). Nature-Based Solutions and Water Security—1st Edition. Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/books/nature-based-solutions-and-water-security/cassin/978-0-12-819871-1

Elmqvist, T., Andersson, E., McPhearson, T., Bai, X., Bettencourt, L., Brondizio, E., Colding, J., Daily, G., Folke, C., Grimm, N., Haase, D., Ospina, D., Parnell, S., Polasky, S., Seto, K. C., & Van Der Leeuw, S. (2021). Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene. Npj Urban Sustainability1(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00018-w

Folke, C., Polasky, S., Rockström, J., Galaz, V., Westley, F., Lamont, M., Scheffer, M., Österblom, H., Carpenter, S. R., Chapin, F. S., Seto, K. C., Weber, E. U., Crona, B. I., Daily, G. C., Dasgupta, P., Gaffney, O., Gordon, L. J., Hoff, H., Levin, S. A., … Walker, B. H. (2021). Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere. Ambio50(4), 834–869. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01544-8

Guevara, M., Torres, M., Vogl, A., Fernández, F., Moss, S., & Fredriksson Häägg, A. (2020, November). Proyecto de Resiliencia y Ordenamiento Territorial del agua y Servicios Ecosistémicos en la Amazonía de Perú, Bolivia y Brasil. Stanford Digital Repository. https://purl.stanford.edu/mx682ny6097

Herrero, M., Thornton, P. K., Mason-D’Croz, D., Palmer, J., Bodirsky, B. L., Pradhan, P., Barrett, C. D., Benton, T. G., Hall, A., Pikaar, I., Bogard, J. R., Bonnett, G., Bryan, B. A., Campbell, B. M., Christensen, S., Clark, M., Fanzo, J., Godde, C. M., Jarvis, A., … Rockstrom, J. (2020). Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals. The Lancet Planetary Healthhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30277-1

Hipopótamos: Controlar esa especie | Revista Nota Uniandina. (n.d.). Nota Uniandina. Retrieved June 8, 2021, from https://notauniandina.uniandes.edu.co/explore/hipopotamos-el-dilema-de-controlar-una-especie-carismatica-e-invasora/

Hopper, L. M., & Ross, S. R. (Eds.). (2021). Chimpanzees in Context. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo59260837.html

Johnson, J. A., Kennedy, C. M., Oakleaf, J. R., Baruch-Mordo, S., Polasky, S., & Kiesecker, J. (2021). Energy matters: Mitigating the impacts of future land expansion will require managing energy and extractive footprints. Ecological Economics187, 107106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107106

Kowal, V. A., Ahlborn, J., Jamsranjav, C., Avirmed, O., & Chaplin-Kramer, R. (2021). Modeling Integrated Impacts of Climate Change and Grazing on Mongolia’s Rangelands. Land10(4), 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10040397

Li, B., Chen, N., Wang, W., Wang, C., Schmitt, R. J. P., Lin, A., & Daily, G. C. (2021). Eco-environmental impacts of dams in the Yangtze River Basin, China. Science of The Total Environment774, 145743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145743

Li, J., Li, S., Daily, G. C., & Feldman, M. (2021). Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6349-2

Li, R., Zheng, H., O’Connor, P., Xu, H., Li, Y., Lu, F., Robinson, B. E., Ouyang, Z., Hai, Y., & Daily, G. C. (2021). Time and space catch up with restoration programs that ignore ecosystem service trade-offs. Science Advances7(14), eabf8650. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf8650

Liang, L., Henebry, G. M., Liu, L., Zhang, X., & Hsu, L.-C. (2021). Trends in land surface phenology across the conterminous United States (1982–2016) analyzed by NEON domains. Ecological Applicationsn/a(n/a), e2323. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2323

Lonsdorf, E. V., Nootenboom, C., Janke, B., & Horgan, B. P. (2021). Assessing urban ecosystem services provided by green infrastructure: Golf courses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Landscape and Urban Planning208, 104022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.104022

Polasky, S., Crépin, A.-S., Biggs, R. (Oonsie), Carpenter, S. R., Folke, C., Peterson, G., Scheffer, M., Barrett, S., Daily, G., Ehrlich, P., Howarth, R. B., Hughes, T., Levin, S. A., Shogren, J. F., Troell, M., Walker, B., & Xepapadeas, A. (2020). Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene. BioScience70(12), 1139–1144. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa115

Polasky, S., & Daily, G. (2021). An Introduction to the Economics of Natural Capital. Review of Environmental Economics and PolicyAhead of Print, 000–000. https://doi.org/10.1086/713010

Remme, R. P., Frumkin, H., Guerry, A. D., King, A. C., Mandle, L., Sarabu, C., Bratman, G. N., Giles-Corti, B., Hamel, P., Han, B., Hicks, J. L., James, P., Lawler, J. J., Lindahl, T., Liu, H., Lu, Y., Oosterbroek, B., Paudel, B., Sallis, J. F., … Daily, G. C. (2021). An ecosystem service perspective on urban nature, physical activity, and health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences118(22). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018472118

Ren, L., Li, J., Li, S., Li, C., & Daily, G. C. (2020). Does China’s major Payment for Ecosystem Services program meet the “gold criteria”? Targeting strategies of different decision-makers. Journal of Cleaner Production275, 122667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122667

Ruckelshaus, M., Reguero, B. G., Arkema, K., Compeán, R. G., Weekes, K., Bailey, A., & Silver, J. (2020). Harnessing new data technologies for nature-based solutions in assessing and managing risk in coastal zones. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction51, 101795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101795

San Juan, P. A., Hendershot, J. N., Daily, G. C., & Fukami, T. (2020). Land-use change has host-specific influences on avian gut microbiomes. The ISME Journal14(1), 318–321. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0535-4

Schmitt, R. J. P., Kittner, N., Kondolf, G. M., & Kammen, D. M. (2021). Joint strategic energy and river basin planning to reduce dam impacts on rivers in Myanmar. Environmental Research Letters16(5), 054054. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe329

Smith, O. M., Taylor, J. M., Echeverri, A., Northfield, T., Cornell, K. A., Jones, M. S., Latimer, C. E., Owen, J. P., Snyder, W. E., & Kennedy, C. M. (2021). Big wheel keep on turnin’: Linking grower attitudes, farm management, and delivery of avian ecosystem services. Biological Conservation254, 108970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108970

Walston, L. J., Li, Y., Hartmann, H. M., Macknick, J., Hanson, A., Nootenboom, C., Lonsdorf, E., & Hellmann, J. (2021). Modeling the ecosystem services of native vegetation management practices at solar energy facilities in the Midwestern United States. Ecosystem Services47, 101227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101227

Wright, D., Harder, C., & Diamond, J. (Eds.). (2020). GIS for Science | Applying Mapping and Spatial Analytics, Volume 2 (Vol. 2). Esri Press. https://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=391&moduleID=0

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