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Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA): Guidance

Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA) guidance is a comprehensive document providing information and resources for Natural Capital.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
22 January 2020
Last updated
19 July 2023 — See all updates

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Enabling a Natural Capital Approach guidance

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ENCA guidance

ENCA guidance is a comprehensive document providing information and resources for Natural Capital. It covers:

  • the natural capital framework
  • economic valuation of the environment
  • how project or policy appraisal can incorporate natural capital
  • natural capital accounting principles and methods, benefits and challenges
  • applying natural capital at a local level
Published 22 January 2020
Last updated 19 July 2023 + show all updates

  1. This guidance has been updated to make it clearer, more concise and provide more up to date information.

  2. Updated ENCA guidance to reflect changes to reflecting developments in the evidence base and in improvements in response to user feedback. This includes new signposting for users approaching the guidance for the first time, new material included in Section 5 on natural capital planning, mapping and tools and a new Annex 1 showing how ENCA can inform different topics of interest.

  3. Updated guidance document with improvements for accessibility.

  4. First published.

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