The relationship between the four capitals

Achieving sustainable development requires more than an awareness or a measurement of natural capital. We must take action to maintain and enhance the value…

Blue Carbon

In terms of providing protection from extreme events, coral reefs, seagrasses, mangroves and dunes, can also, in certain circumstances, provide protection against storm surges…

Healthy oceans support a range of sustainable development goals

The ocean, together with the ecosystems, habitats and species therein, provides benefits to humans in numerous and diverse ways, and this is reflected in…

Human well-being and the four capitals

Economic, social, human and natural capital are all inter-linked and are constantly changing. All four types of capital contribute directly to human well-being. Economic…

Linking indicators for policy guidance

Drawing from available data, the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP; www.bipindicators.net) used the pressure-state-benefit-response framework to identify a series of indicators that measure progress against…

Marine fisheries employment 2011, by region

Fisheries depend exclusively on marine ecosystem services through food provision as well as habitat and water purification functions. As well, these fisheries support around…

Marine genetic diversity and human health

Marine and coastal ecosystems help ensuring healthy lives by providing high-value protein and essential micronutrients, minerals and fatty acids to people’s diets, often at…

Natural and Social Capital can be mutually supportive

In addition to bringing together conservation and development objectives, the ecosystem services perspective has the potential to create a link between human activities as…

Killer whales and calf

Killer whale pod in Southeast Alaska.

Killer whale synchrony

Killer whale pod in Southeast Alaska.

Killer whale pod

Killer whale pod in Southeast Alaska.

Killer whale male and pod

Killer whale pod in Southeast Alaska.