Investing in Natural Capital- Griesinger Films

Investing In Natural Capital Video Illustration

Features the explosive ‘World Population, 0000 - 2020’ video map provided by Zero Population Growth, Washington, DC.

42 minutes
$29.95
ISBN 0-9616762-6-4
1993
Study Guide
Included

Producers Notes

"More than 70 percent of total human population growth has occurred in this past century. In the new context of much greater population density, long-standing assumptions about the exploitation and consumption of our resource base could end up bankrupting even the world's richest countries. 'Investing in Natural Capital' is a provocative, educational exploration of the ways in which ecology can, and must, transform economic theory."
- Aaron Sachs, Worldwatch Institute

Video Description:
"Investing in Natural Capital" is a well-informed, colorful video produced in Stockholm, Sweden, during the 2nd biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics in 1992. This production explores carrying capacity issues related to agriculture, international trade, property rights, and over-population. Herman Daly, recipient of the Alternative Nobel Prize, the Heineken Award, argues that we must shift investment from man-made capital to natural capital in order to adapt to a world with a new pattern of scarcity.
Features:
	Herman Daly Senior Economist Environment Department, The World Bank, Washington, DC	Robert Costanza Director Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, Solomons, MD
	AnnMari Jannson Associate Professor Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Sweden	Cutler Cleveland Professor Energy/Environmental Studies, Boston University
	Paul Ekins Research Fellow Economics, Birkbeck College, London, England	Paul Ehrlich Professor Population Sciences, Stanford University
	Charles Perrings Professor Environmental Economics, University of York, England	Karl Göran Mäler Director Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
	William Rees Professor Community/Regional Planning University of British Columbia, Canada	Carlos Miños Student
	Martha Gilliland Dean Graduate College, University of Arizona	Stephen Viederman President Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, New York, NY
	Nils Kautsky Professor Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Sweden	Lena Kautsky Associate Professor Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden
	Rolf Hersson Producer Swedish National Radio	Per Larsson Science Reporter Stockholm University, Sweden
	Jonathan Harris Professor Global Development/Environment, Tufts University	C.S. Holling Professor Zoology, University of Florida
Producers Notes: Investing in Natural Capital (1993) took us to Stockholm, Sweden, where population growth and carrying capacity issues were the overriding concern. In this tape, (our most popular!), it is pointed out that humans and human-made capital formation cannot continue to deplete and poison our natural capital accounts. Economists and businesses must learn that the new requirements of a ‘natural capitalism’ involve a fundamental recognition that the global economic system is a sub-set of a much larger, and surprisingly fragile, ecosystem. ‘Investing in Natural Capital’ is essentially a treatise on the ethics and viability of current international treaties, such as the GATT, NAFTA, and the upcoming MIA that unequivocally promote the consumption and ultimate exhaustion of our ever-diminishing resource base. By suggesting that we must redesign our commercial systems and trading structures so that they compliment and preserve our remaining natural capital assets, ‘Investing in Natural Capital’ challenges the viewer to look deeper into the effects of the human footprint and how it is now affecting the health of the planet.

"Ecologists, economists, agriculturalists, foresters, fishery specialists, geographers, and others will be most interested in seeing and listening to this group of eminent world scientists discussing how and why it is vital for humans to manage their 'natural capital' more carefully than ever before."
- David Pimentel, College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences, Cornell University

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