On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us

Partha Dasgupta considers how economic progress should be measured during an ecological crisis. Drawing on his work on natural capital, he examines an approach to economics that assigns value to nature alongside other assets.

The discussion asks how changing the way economies value the natural world could change the way they protect it. Dasgupta connects economic measurement with environmental sustainability and the challenge of recognising nature’s contribution to human well-being.