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Welcome to What We Are Reading
Featuring recent peer-reviewed articles from our members, as well as podcasts, essays, and novel suggestions from our scientists and editors.
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Lessons from the Amazon - In Conversation with Tanya Rubí Villalba Chumo
The Administrator of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador shares how conservation and collaboration go hand-in-hand—and how both require daily commitment.
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InVEST Contributors Welcome
NatCap Symposium reflections, InVEST contributor pathways, and the InVEST Plugin Registry
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NatCap News
New partners, new tools: recent articles, announcements, a free course, and hands-on resources
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Generating visual reports is now automatic for many InVEST models
How the NatCap software team aims to make ecosystem service modeling results easier to interpret, share, and use in decision-making
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Breaking away from the tyranny of single-indicator rule: Gross Ecosystem Product
GDP was never intended as a measure of national wellbeing. But there’s another complementary metric already being implemented around the world.
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NatCap News: Natural Capital Symposium
Five more days to register for the next Natural Capital Symposium, to be held June 29 - July 1, 2026.
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Understanding business impacts on nature - and on nature’s benefits
Key concepts and visuals from Chapter Three of the IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment
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Rethinking Financial Systems to Bank on Nature
Megan Meacham of FinBio and the Stockholm Resilience Centre shares work with the private sector to understand their needs and incentivize action on nature.
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New in InVEST: The Urban Mental Health Model
Released in InVESTⓇ 3.19.0, the Urban Mental Health model helps users estimate how changes in urban greenness may affect mental health cases and associated societal costs.
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The Art of Natural Capital: Visualizing Ecosystem Services in Urban Contexts
Mapping the benefits of nature in cities
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Nature’s Financial Value, GEP, and Scaling an Initiative to 75 Countries
Professor Gretchen Daily in conversation with Sam McClure, on the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast
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Beyond the Bottom Line: A Conversation with Narayan Iyer at the Asian Development Bank
On food systems and natural capital in the Asia-Pacific region. Edited from an interview by NatCap intern Anastazja Krostenko.
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From Myth to Management: How Armenia’s High Altitude Water Towers, Once Guarded by Dragon Stones, Can Still Protect Economies and People
How we choose to manage the stock and flow of freshwater is and remains a primary human concern.
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The Nature of Business: What the IPBES Business Assessment Reveals About Biodiversity, Risk, and Corporate Action
IPBES Report Highlights Methods and more than 100 Specific Actions for Businesses, Governments, Financial Actors and Civil Society.
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Introducing: InVEST Reports
InVEST rolls out a new Reports feature for four of its models that automatically generates visual summaries of results.
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Tea, Turbines, and Trade-Offs: How Sri Lanka Is Rethinking Watershed Investment
The Sri Lanka project highlights ways natural capital information is shaping real-world policy, planning, and investment decisions.
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“A Map Is Not the Territory”
Mapping, Modeling, and the Power of Place - In Conversation with GIS Analysts Jesse A. Goldstein and Stacie Wolny on How Spatial Data Shape Real-World Decisions
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The Ruckelshaus Legacy: Nature’s Way Out of the Vacuum
From the EPA’s founding to global natural capital leadership, the Ruckelshauses show that environmental policy can succeed with innovation, listening, and collaboration.
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Hello World!
Welcome to the Software & Modeling column on the NatCap Substack!
