Healthy Lands & Healthy Economies

Healthy Lands & Healthy Economies Initiative

This initiative is a multi-county effort to increase the pace and scale of conservation, secure new sources of funding, and enroll new allies for open space conservation and stewardship. The initiative conducts economic valuations of natural capital, or natural resources that can generate income, and documents the return on investment for land conservation and restoration. Nature's Value in Santa Clara County is one in a series of reports that document the economic value and multiple benefits of conservation in the three counties. Additional reports in the series include countywide natural asset valuations for Santa Cruz and Sonoma counties, and detailed economic analyses of benefits, costs, and job creation for conservation investments that protect drinking water supplies, agricultural viability, recreation and tourism, wildlife habitat enhancement, and climate change resiliency.