Gretchen Daily is Bing Professor of Environmental Science at Stanford University, where she also serves as Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute; Director of the Center for Conservation Biology; and co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project, an international partnership whose goal is to improve the well-being of people and the environment by mainstreaming the values of nature into high-leverage decisions globally. An ecologist by training, Daily’s research is on harmonizing biodiversity conservation, agriculture, and livelihoods; characterizing the connections between people and nature key to human health and well-being; and developing new policy and finance mechanisms for integrating conservation and human development. Daily is a fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
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Aug 01 2016 Blog Post Mainstreaming Natural Capital Accounting: Building On a Decade of Experience China’s leaders first became interested in natural capital after devastating landslides and flooding in 1998 killed thousands and displaced millions of people, at a cost of more than US$30 billion in damages. In response, the Chinese government invested over $150 billion in natural capital—extensive deforestation was partly to blame. China recently published its first National […]