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NY Times article - 9 August 2011</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.467em;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09profile.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09profile.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp</a></p>
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InVEST: Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs</h1></font></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
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<font size="2">The Need for a New Tool</font></h2><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:1.3em">
InVEST is a family of tools to map and value the goods and services from nature which are essential for sustaining and fulfilling human life.</p><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:1.3em">
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<font size="2">Who Should Use InVEST</font></h2><p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:1.3em">
Governments, non-profits, and corporations manage natural resources for multiple uses and inevitably must evaluate trade-offs among these uses; InVEST's multi-service, modular design provides an effective tool for evaluating these trade-offs.</p>
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"Early on, Dr. Daily recognized that new tools were needed to quantify nature�s value. �We began by developing a software program called InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs) to map and value nature�s goods and services that are essential for humans,� she said.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.467em;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">The software, which is available as a free download, enables the comparison of various environmental scenarios. What is the real cost of draining a wetland or clearing a coastline of mangroves? InVEST models the trade-offs and helps decision makers better understand the implications of their choices."</p>
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The Costa Rican program helped inspire Dr. Daily to co-found the Natural Capital Project in 2006. NatCap, as the program is known, is a venture led by Stanford University, the University of Minnesota and two of the world�s largest conservation organizations, the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund. It aims to transform traditional conservation methods by including the value of �ecosystem services� in business, community and government decisions. These benefits from nature � like flood protection, crop pollination and carbon storage � are not part of the traditional economic equation.</p>
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