“…That the use of these approaches continues to increase is due in no small part to the growing recognition, at the highest levels of government, of the vital economic role played by natural capital 8 and the ecosystem services it provides. Recognition of the economic role of natural capital in generating and maintaining wellbeing can be traced back to David Pearce and 7 See Atkinson and Mourato (2008), Mackie (2010), and Atkinson et al (2018b) for detailed reviews. 8 Natural capital refers to stocks of those elements of nature (such as the stock of forests, rivers, land, minerals, and oceans, as well as the natural processes and functions that underpin their operation) that produce flows of services (known as ecosystem services) that can produce wellbeing for people.…”