VALUGAPS

Intact natural capital permanently provides services that are valuable for people. The social values of natural capital are still not completely known and subject to great uncertainty. ValuGaps develops methods to close information gaps, to deal with uncertainties, and to bring together existing knowledge in such a way that decision-makers can apply it practically... Biodiversity and natural capital contribute fundamentally to human well-being. So far, decision making in Germany only partly takes these values into account. One major reason are large information gaps and uncertainties. The few existing original valuation studies have not been syste-matically selected, consider only a subset of values, and treat ecological-economic dynamics and uncertainties only implicitly. ValuGaps responds to the need for comprehensive, reliable, and scala-ble values of natural capital and biodiversity for societal decision-making, as experienced by public authorities in Germany, especially the..

Primary location: Leipzig Germany