Natural capital: Valuing the planet

Natural capital is what nature provides  us free. Renewables keep on coming while non-renewables-like oil and gas-can only be used once. Together, they ensure our survival and well-being and are the basis of all economic activity.  Dieter Helm offers a set of strategies for establishing policy that is balanced, economically sustainable and politically viable. Helm shows the commonly held view that environmental protection poses obstacles to economic progress is false he explains why the environment must be at the very core of economic planning. He presents the first real attempt to calibrate, measure, and value natural capital from an economic perspective and goes on to outline a stable new framework for sustainable growth. Helm's book shifts the parameters of current environmental debate. This volume is essential reading for anyone concerned with reversing the destruction of our environment.