Building narratives through nature data

Jacob Bedford, Yi Kui Felix Tin, Aime Rankin, Michelle Harrison, Calum Maney, Charlotte Lamb, Alex Ross, Sarah Pickering, Sharon Brooks (UNEP-WCMC), Nadine McCormick (WBCSD).

This handbook is aimed at sustainability professionals within or supporting companies when designing nature strategies or approaches, including setting targets and designing action plans, whether related to specific operations and/or supply-chains. It covers both users tasked with planning and undertaking analysis, and those wanting to understand and interpret results of analysis to support decision making.

The aim of this handbook is to provide detailed, practical information on a selection of key spatial datasets and metrics for assessing state of nature, risks and opportunities at locations and how they can be applied in operational and/or strategic decisions. The handbook does not serve as a guide for collecting or using primary data through on the ground survey or remote sensing. It also focuses on using spatial data for initial screening and then characterizing of locations, rather than using data to build more detailed inventories and account for changes in stocks and flows of ecosystem assets and services that an organisation interacts with.