By Frances Mynott and Clement Garcia, Cefas leads for the mNCEA programme. Our understanding of the benefits that our marine and coastal environments provide are improving through the Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme. Started in 2022, mNCEA is …
By Clement Garcia and Frances Mynott, Cefas leads of the mNCEA programme. The Cefas-led project, ‘A seascape natural capital approach for sustainable management (Seascapes)’, is part of a 3-year Defra funded marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme. mNCEA …
Natural capital refers to parts of the natural environment, such as forests, fisheries, rivers, biodiversity, land and minerals, that provide valuable goods and services to society. Much like human capital (labour, skills and experience), recent reviews recognise that natural capital should …