Natural Capital

From the man that the New York Times calls “the most important person you’ve never heard of,” renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, asking a simple yet profound question—what if we put a value on nature, just as we put a value on...

Green Growth That Works is the first practical guide to bring together pragmatic finance and policy tools that can make investment in natural capital both attractive and commonplace. The authors present six mechanisms that demonstrate a range of approaches used around the globe to conserve and restore earth's myriad ecosystems, including: government subsidies; regulatory-driven mitigation; voluntary conservation; water funds; market-based transactions; and bilateral and multilateral payments.  

Historians and economists commonly cite natural disasters and foreign invasions to explain cultural collapses. The problem is, human families have been suffering and overcoming disasters for thousands of years. Humans cover most of the earth; they have learned to live on polar ice and in arid deserts. They have adapted to tropical islands and rain forests. Humans live literally everywhere. And wherever humans wander, they create cultures and civilizations. Civilizations fall apart when human economies and cultures collapse. The question is--what forces, over long, long time periods, divide ...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Imagine a football team which measures its success only on the basis of the goals it scores and doesn’t count the goals it concedes. That football team could be losing right through without recognizing it…’ For as long as they have existed, our economic models...

Water-economy decisions shape every modern economy, yet water remains undervalued and underpriced. This analytical work reveals how freshwater scarcity constrains growth, drives risk, and reshapes finance, trade, and policy worldwide. - Understand how water functions as a factor of production and a binding constraint on economic output - Analyze the gap between water's economic value and its price, and why chronic mispricing persists - Discover how water security shapes growth, volatility, and development at the macroeconomic scale - Evaluate water risk and its transmission through firms, ...

Biodiversity finance is now central to economic and financial decision-making, yet the capital reaching nature remains a fraction of what is required. This book explains how the gap can be closed by reconfiguring how the financial system perceives, prices, and rewards ecological value. - Understand the biodiversity finance gap and why closing it means redirecting mainstream capital, not merely adding dedicated funds. - Analyze how natural capital is valued and made visible to governments, companies, and investors. - Discover the public finance reforms and harmful-subsidy redirection that ...

Viksit Bangla 2050 is an ambitious vision for the future of Bengal—a roadmap for transforming the state into a prosperous, sustainable, and globally competitive region by the year 2050. Written by Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, this book offers a compelling vision that goes beyond traditional economic growth metrics, focusing instead on human-centered development, cultural revival, and technological innovation. It is a call to action for policymakers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, students, and citizens to come together and contribute to shaping Bengal’s future. Author here brings together a...