Ecosystem Services & Conservation

Our well being is fundamentally linked to healthy ecosystems. To expand our knowledge of these connections, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment supports interdisciplinary work probing human impacts on nature and shapes new conservation paradigms. Woods convenes workshops and dialogues to expand awareness of nature’s values and ways to sustain them. These events have laid the foundation for partnerships such as the Natural Capital Project, a pioneering initiative transforming how governments and businesses factor nature’s value into decision-making. Woods works to inform those decisions by sharing findings of Stanford’s world-class biologists, ecologists, social scientists and others. Woods centers and affiliated scholars are provide cutting-edge research, support networks and practical tools to create solutions that benefit people and nature.