{"id":7141,"date":"2017-12-19T06:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T06:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2017-12-19T06:19:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T06:19:18","slug":"a-fragmented-natural-capital-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/12\/19\/a-fragmented-natural-capital-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"A fragmented natural capital picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about\u00a0the usefulness of NGOs interested in global learning \/ social justice talking with NGOs that are interested in (or which should be interested in) education related to the goals that have a natural capital\u00a0grounding. \u00a0The NGOs I listed under the latter heading were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Wildlife Trusts<\/li>\n<li>the British Trust for Ornithology<\/li>\n<li>RSPB<\/li>\n<li>the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust<\/li>\n<li>the\u00a0Marine Conservation Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I might have added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the National Biodiversity Network<\/li>\n<li>Plantlife<\/li>\n<li>the Woodland Trust<\/li>\n<li>Butterfly Conservation<\/li>\n<li>the British Dragonfly Society<\/li>\n<li>National Trust<\/li>\n<li>Shark Conservation Society<\/li>\n<li>the Bat Conservation Trust<\/li>\n<li>Buglife<\/li>\n<li>WWF<\/li>\n<li>Whale and Dolphin Conservation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>... and many, many more. \u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charitychoice.co.uk\/charities\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this list seems endless shows how fragmented what I have called (no doubt inexactly and perhaps controversially) the <em>natural capital<\/em> side of things. \u00a0And I've not mentioned any overtly educational organisations (NAEE \/ SEEd \/ GA \/ ASE \/ FACE \/ CLOtC \/ FSC \/ LTL \/ etc \/ etc., or charities such as Friends of the Earth \/ Client Earth \/ E3G \/ Greenpeace \/ CPRE, etc., or any of the quasi-governmental bodies: Natural England \/ Forestry Commission \/\u00a0Environment Agency \/\u00a0Environment and Heritage service \/ \u00a0English Heritage \/ Heritage England \/ etc \/ etc.<\/p>\n<p>It is no small wonder that those interested in\u00a0<em>social justice <\/em>find it easier to bend the ear of those with money and clout.<\/p>\n<p>....................................................................<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-World-Well-Leave-Behind-Grasping-the-Sustainability-Challenge\/Scott-Vare\/p\/book\/9781783537730\">book<\/a>, <em>The World We'll Leave Behind<\/em> (which I've co-written with Paul Vare), directly addresses these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about\u00a0the usefulness of NGOs interested in global learning \/ social justice talking with NGOs that are interested in (or which should be interested in) education related to the goals that have a natural capital\u00a0grounding. \u00a0The NGOs I...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}