{"id":17686,"date":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2018\/08\/21\/quantifying-nature\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T08:40:15","slug":"quantifying-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2018\/08\/21\/quantifying-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantifying Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17687\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17687\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Botanical-Haven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Botanical-Haven.jpg 720w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Botanical-Haven-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBotanical Haven\u201d by Ivan Woo from SRN\u2019s SG Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The environment provides free positive externalities that many people are unaware of and tend to take for granted. These ecosystem services include carbon storage, coastal protection and food production.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) hope to illuminate this by quantifying the benefits of Singapore\u2019s natural capital. This research is co-lead by Associate Professor Dan Friess (NUS Department of Geography) and is the first nationwide project in the tropics that seeks to place an economic value on nature.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will utilize various methods to determine a monetary and socio-cultural valuation of the natural environment. Ultimately, the project aims to develop an interactive digital planning tool that will inform planners and developers on the implications should they decide to repurpose an existing a green space. This will hopefully discourage undesirable development from occurring in green spaces which are prioritized as areas of higher value.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/singapore\/project-aims-quantify-worth-forests-and-marine-habitats\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environment provides free positive externalities that many people are unaware of and tend to take for granted. These ecosystem services include carbon storage, coastal protection and food production. A team of researchers from the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) hope to illuminate this by quantifying the benefits of Singapore\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28333,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17686\/revisions\/28333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}