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Quantifying Investment Risk: Ranking the Resilience of 50 Global Cities

2014-05-19 20:08:00| National Real Estate Investor

Traditional methods of property investment risk assessment are insufficient in a world facing unprecedented challenges such as rising sea levels, overpopulation, inequality and access to natural resources; which are changing the basic patterns of the last two centuries. This belief led the Grosvenor Group to publish a ranking of 50 global cities by environmental and social resilience and use this research as part of its investment risk analysis to go beyond the traditional methods such as standard deviation of returns, projected vacancy rates and forecast rental returns. read more

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Next big idea in forest conservation? Quantifying the cost of forest degradation

2014-03-27 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: How much is a forest really worth? And what is the cost of forest degradation? These values are difficult to estimate, but according to Dr. Phillip Fearnside, we need to do a better job. For nearly forty years, Fearnside has lived in Amazonia doing ecological research, looking at the value of forests in terms of environmental or ecosystem services such as carbon storage, water cycling, and biodiversity preservation. Fearnside then works to convert these services into a basis for sustainable development...

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