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Tags: sustainable development
Categories: Economics & Finance
Natural capital is the extension of the economic notion of capital (manufactured means of production) to goods and services relating to the natural environment.
It is the set of all natural resources, some are renewable and others are not:
- minerals
- biodiversity (plants, trees, fish, birds, insects, etc.)
- ecosystems (forests, jungles, deserts, grasslands, tundra, savannah, etc.)
- water
- sun
- wind
- land
