Title Nature's frontiers : achieving sustainability, efficiency, and prosperity with natural capital / Richard Damania [and 15 others]

Published Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 175 pages) : color illustrations, color maps Series Environment and sustainable development Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Environment and sustainable development. Contents Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors and Contributors -- Main Messages -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Down to Earth -- Key messages -- Introduction -- The unraveling web of life -- Investing in natural capital -- An efficiency frontier approach -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Identifying a Sustainable Resource Efficiency Frontier: An Overview of the Approach -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Modeling land use efficiency: A summary of the methodology -- Measuring productivity through efficiency frontiers Impacts not considered: Shifts in the efficiency frontier -- Annex 2A: Water quality and the resource efficiency frontiers -- Annex 2B: Aggregation and the "headline" landscape efficiency score -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Envisioning a More Sustainable Future through a More Efficient Present -- Key messages -- Introduction -- How efficiently does the world use its land-based natural endowments? -- Landscape efficiency scores -- A typology -- Efficiency gains for achieving global carbon goals -- Efficiency gains for achieving economic development and food security goals Efficiency gains, biodiversity, and ecosystem services -- Caveats and limitations of the data and methods -- Annex 3A: Additional results -- Annex 3B: Nonmarket environmental scores: A further analysis of outcomes -- Annex 3C: Comparison of yield gaps calculated from GAEZ and data layers of this study -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Policy Implications for More Efficient Landscapes -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Policy objectives: Targeting the causes of the problem -- Exploring policy options by country typology -- Policy design concerns -- Conclusions Annex 4A: Decomposition analysis and shifting toward the efficiency frontier -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Efficiency Frontier for Air Quality -- Key messages -- Introduction -- The approach -- How well do countries perform? -- Efficiency and environmental scores that measure policy ambitions -- A typology of countries and priority directions for improving efficiency -- Priorities for efficiency improvements -- Annex 5A: GAINS model methodology explained -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Country Spotlights -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Azerbaijan Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) -- Liberia -- China and the Arab Republic of Egypt -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Conclusions -- Conquering the headwinds to change -- Caveats, limitations, and future work -- Concluding thoughts -- Appendix A Study Results by Country -- Boxes -- Box ES.1 An example of an efficiency frontier from West Africa -- Box ES.2 The Loess Plateau: A transformational landscape -- Box 1.1 Critical natural capital and tipping points -- Box 1.2 Challenges in measuring sustainability -- Box 1.3 Will the world run out of resources? -- Box 2.1 Monetizing the unmonetized benefits Summary The great expansion of economic activity since the end of World War II has caused an unprecedented rise in living standards, but it has also caused rapid changes in earth systems. Nearly all types of natural capital-- the world's stock of resources and services provided by nature-- are in decline. Clean air, abundant and clean water, fertile soils, productive fisheries, dense forests, and healthy oceans are critical for healthy lives and healthy economies. Mounting pressures, however, suggest that the trend of declining natural capital may cast a long shadow into the future. This publication presents a novel approach to address these foundational challenges of sustainability. A methodology combining innovative science, new data sources, and cutting-edge biophysical and economic models builds sustainable resource efficiency frontiers to assess how countries can sustainably use their natural capital more efficiently. The analysis provides recommendations on how countries can better use their natural capital to achieve their economic and environ mental goals. The report indicates that significant efficiency gaps exist in nearly every country. Closing these gaps can address many of the world's pressing economic and environmental problems-- economic productivity, health, food and water security, and climate change. Although the approach outlined in this report will entail demanding policy reforms, the costs of inaction will be far higher Notes "This report is the product of a partnership among the World Bank Group, the Natural Capital Project, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)"--Acknowledgments Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on resource, viewed September 8, 2023 Subject Sustainability. Natural resources. Environmental protection. natural resources. environmental protection. Environmental protection Natural resources Sustainability Form Electronic book Author Polasky, Stephen, author. Ruckelshaus, Mary H., author. Russ, Jason (Economist), author. Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca, author Gerber, James (James S.), author Hawthorne, Peter (Peter Loken), author Heger, Martin Philipp, author Mamun, Saleh, author Ruta, Giovanni, author. ISBN 9781464819247 1464819246

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