Natural capital valuing the planet by dieter helm 381 rating details 42 ratings 7 reviews hard hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction natural capital is what nature provides to us for free renewables like species keep on coming provided we do not drive them towards extinction non renewables like . Natural capital valuing the planet books 2015 abstract hard hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction natural capital is what nature provides to us for free renewables like species keep on coming provided we do not drive them towards extinction non renewables like oil and gas can only be used once together . The term natural capital has been the subject of somewhat differing interpretations but the consensus view is that it includes the stock of both biotic and abiotic assets in nature barbier . Natural capital valuing the planet an alarming projection of what the denuding of global natural capital means for our future the means to provide a real economic valuation of natural capital a precise call to arms that rejects naive green utopianism