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On the ground in Bolivia
We’re back in the field! In September, NatCap’s Adrian Vogl, Marcelo Guevara, Héctor Angarita, and Andrea Baudoin Farah traveled to Bolivia as a part of our project in Llanos de Moxos. They met with local project team collaborators from the University of Beni and the Wildlife Conservation Society, as well as local stakeholder groups, to collect data on people's perceptions and priorities for ecosystem services in the region. While there, they also developed an ecosystem services methodology that will be applied in all 19 municipalities of the Beni Department in Bolivia.

We're so glad to be able to safely travel and meet with collaborators in person again. Watch this slideshow on YouTube to see photos from the Bolivia trip and stay tuned for more updates from the team as the project develops.
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Urban nature and biodiversity for cities


A new World Bank policy brief by Natural Capital Project scientists presents the scientific basis for incorporating nature into urban design.
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Interview with a NatCapper: Talia Trepte

 

NatCap's communications assistant talks environmental comms, making our content more accessible, and their post-grad, post-NatCap plans.

Nature-based investments on the world stage

A few weeks ago, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (commonly known as the CBD COP) gathered virtually and in Kunming, China with leaders from around the world. In response to growing interest, the Natural Capital Project hosted a core session with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and others on mainstreaming the values of nature into policy, finance, and practice. 

Building on the momentum from the convention, we are excited to see the increasing, shared commitment among multilateral development banks (MDBs) to invest in nature-positive development. Today, MDBs made an important announcement about their joint plan to mainstream nature into policies, analysis, and investments. We look forward to working with the MDBs to achieve their ambitious and crucial goals.
Watch Gretchen Daily’s remarks at the session’s opening ceremony
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Check out our newest training series, GIS for InVEST. The series provides step-by-step guidance related to a variety of geographic information system (GIS) topics for working with InVEST models. Each tutorial covers one topic, and each topic is presented in both ArcGIS and QGIS. Learn more or go straight to the YouTube playlist.
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Press & Publications Highlights


Bay Area Startup Helping Big Cities Go Green
NBC Bay Area | November 1, 2021

Stanford’s Peter Vitousek and Gretchen Daily honored by the British Ecological Society
By Devon Ryan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | October 15, 2021

Can Colombia’s Coasts Develop Sustainably? Ask This Researcher!
By Andrew Wight | Forbes | September 29, 2021

Price tag on the planet? Helping business value nature.
By Laure Fillon | Yahoo! News | August 31, 2021 | Also in MSN, NT News, France 24, The Mercury.
Press

Greening the Gray: Fighting Floods with Restoration Versus Riprap. By Kelsey Adkisson, PNNL. October 14, 2021.

Every whale is worth $2 million? Why it’s time to add the value of nature to GDP. By Rachel Koning Beals, MarketWatch. September 30, 2021.

El Gobierno Regional de Madre de Dios y CINCIA firman acta de transferencia de Información Espacial de Pro-Agua. By the Government of Perú. August 23, 2021. 

San Francisco Bay’s tides are going to rise. Should we dam the Golden Gate first? By John King, San Francisco Chronicle. August 16, 2021. 

New group appointed to advise government on environmental issues. By News staff, Scottish Housing News. August 23, 2021. 

A new way to measure the benefits of natural solutions for reducing disaster risk. By Lauriane Chardot, PreventionWeb. October 8, 2021. Also in Earth Observatory of Singapore.

Publications

Alexandridis, N., Marion, G., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Dainese, M., Ekroos, J., Grab, H., Jonsson, M., Karp, D. S., Meyer, C., O’Rourke, M. E., Pontarp, M., Poveda, K., Seppelt, R., Smith, H. G., Martin, E. A., & Clough, Y. (2021). Models of natural pest control: Towards predictions across agricultural landscapes. Biological Control, 104761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2021.104761

Almeida, R. M., Fleischmann, A. S., Brêda, J. P. F., Cardoso, D. S., Angarita, H., Collischonn, W., Forsberg, B., García-Villacorta, R., Hamilton, S. K., Hannam, P. M., Paiva, R., Poff, N. L., Sethi, S. A., Shi, Q., Gomes, C. P., & Flecker, A. S. (2021). Climate change may impair electricity generation and economic viability of future Amazon hydropower. Global Environmental Change, 71, 102383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102383

Bizzi, S., Tangi, M., Schmitt, R., Pitlick, J., Piegay, H., & Castelletti, A. (2021). Sediment transport at the network scale and its link to channel morphology in the braided Vjosa River system. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5225

Delevaux, J. M. S., & Stamoulis, K. A. (n.d.). Prioritizing forest management actions to benefit marine habitats in data-poor regions. Conservation Biology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13792

Glidden, C. K., Nova, N., Kain, M. P., Lagerstrom, K. M., Skinner, E. B., Mandle, L., Sokolow, S. H., Plowright, R. K., Dirzo, R., De Leo, G. A., & Mordecai, E. A. (2021). Human-mediated impacts on biodiversity and the consequences for zoonotic disease spillover. Current Biology, 31(19), R1342–R1361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.070

Guerry, A. D., Smith, J. R., Lonsdorf, E., Daily, G. C., Wang, X., & Chun, Y. (2021). Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Cities: Policy Brief [Policy Note]. World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36325

Lallemant, D., Hamel, P., Balbi, M., Lim, T. N., Schmitt, R., & Win, S. (2021). Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction: A probabilistic modeling framework. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.08.010

Mulligan, M., Lehner, B., Zarfl, C., Thieme, M., Beames, P., van Soesbergen, A., Higgins, J., Januchowski-Hartley, S. R., Brauman, K. A., De Felice, L., Wen, Q., Garcia de Leaniz, C., Belletti, B., Mandle, L., Yang, X., Wang, J., & Mazany-Wright, N. (2021). Global Dam Watch: Curated data and tools for management and decision making. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ac333a

Wada, C. A., Burnett, K. M., Okuhata, B. K., Delevaux, J. M. S., Dulai, H., El-Kadi, A. I., Gibson, V., Smith, C., & Bremer, L. L. (2021). Identifying wastewater management tradeoffs: Costs, nearshore water quality, and implications for marine coastal ecosystems in Kona, Hawai‘i. PLOS ONE, 16(9), e0257125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257125

Sumaila, U. R., Skerritt, D. J., Schuhbauer, A., Villasante, S., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Sinan, H., Burnside, D., Abdallah, P. R., Abe, K., Addo, K. A., Adelsheim, J., Adewumi, I. J., Adeyemo, O. K., Adger, N., Adotey, J., Advani, S., Afrin, Z., Aheto, D., Akintola, S. L., … Zeller, D. (2021). WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. Science. 374(6567), 544–544. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm1680

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