Often referred to as natural capital, nature's infrastructure – forests, river basins, wetlands, coral reefs and so on – provides fundamental inputs to the production of all kinds of goods and services.
She is one of the pioneers in the growing worldwide effort to protect the environment by quantifying the value of "natural capital" — nature's goods and services that are fundamental for human life — and factoring these benefits into the calculations of businesses and governments.
Even small companies can now afford to operate internationally by contracting out the management of the process.The logistics business used to be all about the management of transport costs, says John Allan, "but it is now more about the ability to transform the capital nature of the business".
"And the second thing is that by the capital nature and business type of nature those are very different cases.
First, unlike skills, education, machines, tools and other types of human-made capital, we did not have to manufacture and accumulate our endowment of ecological capital; nature provided it to us for free.
They summarize various models and conclude that the impact indebtedness has on safety investments is ambiguous, mainly due to the capital nature of safety investments.
For instance Professor Paul Ekins (et al) suggested Four Capitals, Forum for the Future focuses upon 5, Jane Gleeson White suggests 6, though others consider there might be more - up to 8! Given such diversity, the exact name and nature of the capitals proposed also vary, though most approaches feature the following capitals: natural, social, manufactured, human and financial.
In other words, our wasteful wealth creation model has put us at odds with the mother of all capitals -- nature.
Given the capital-intensive nature of the industry, it is much more beneficial for airlines to not own assets".
Rather, given their capital-intensive nature, renewables require a market context that assures a reasonable and predictable return for investors".
Nuclear power's capital-intensive nature means the cost of labour is relatively unimportant, so Areva can afford to employ expensive workers in rich countries.
