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September 2017

Defining and Scoping Municipal Natural Assets

Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI), Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI)
The report Defining and Scoping Municipal Natural Assets proposes a new definition for Municipal Natural Assets and outlines the scope of the Municipal Natural Asset Management (MNAM) approach.
June 1989

Wasting Assets: Natural Resources in the National Income Accounts

World Resources Institute (WRI)
This report demonstrates that natural resources can be treated similarly to capital in national accounts, and it argues that these accounts should be revised. Using data from Indonesia, the study provides a concrete example of how the revised accounts would work and what signals the new results would give to those who make decisions about economic development.
9 February 2018

Engaging Private Landowners for Municipal Natural Asset Management

Sara Jane O'Neill
Local governments are improving how they identify, value, and manage their natural assets by incorporating them into financial and asset management planning decisions. But what about the portions of natural assets not owned or managed by local governments?
June 2013

Opportunity Lost: Mitigating Risk and Making the Most of Your Land Assets

Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)
This scoping document Opportunity Lost: Mitigating Risk and Making the Most of Your Land Assets evaluates (on a general level) the risk of land degradation on various industry sectors and discusses the impacts of land degradation on businesses using industry sectors as examples.
26 July 2018
Research

Natural Assets Are Cost-Effective, Resilient & A Key Component of Sustainable Service Delivery

Sara Jane O'Neill
Natural assets provide many of the same services to communities as engineered assets but are generally not accounted for and/or are undervalued in asset management practices.
July 2018

Municipal Natural Assets Initiative | Results from the First National Cohort: Decision-Maker Summary

The Municipal Natural Assets Initiative has developed a methodology to help local governments identify, value and manage natural assets. This decision-maker summary provides a high-level overview of each pilot project and their key findings.
23 November 2020
GGKP News

Kyrgyzstan Shows the Way to Green Growth through Sustainable Use of Land Assets

Final outcomes of a project in the Central Asian nation demonstrate how a natural capital approach could be applied to achieve land degradation neutrality and Sustainable Development Goal targets.
February 2018

Towards a Collaborative Strategy for Municipal Natural Asset Management: Private Lands

Making Nature Count
The report Towards a Collaborative Strategy for Municipal Natural Asset Management: Private Lands highlights how local governments can include private land and private landowners in a comprehensive municipal natural asset management framework.
11 April 2019
Online

RFF-CMCC-EIEE Webinar - Asset Prices and Climate Policy

Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
On 11 April 2019 (12:00 PM CET) the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is holding a webinar on "Asset Prices and Climate Policy".
January 2017

Ecosystem Service Valuation and Ecosystem Asset Account in Japan

Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (PRIMAFF)
This paper introduces Japan’s initiative of valuing ecosystem services and incorporates it into the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA). Specifically, it evaluates ecological stocks (i.e. forest and wetland) and ecosystem services from them based on economic valuations and develops an accounting system to record these values.

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