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Gretchen Daily

Bing Professor In Environmental Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University

Major works

Her coauthored books include The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Solution to the Human Dilemma (1995), Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997), The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable (2002), The Power of Trees (2012) and, together with other NatCap co-founders, Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services (2011). Daily serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

About me

Gretchen Daily is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science and serves as Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute, and Director of the Center for Conservation Biology. She is the Founder and Faculty Director of the Natural Capital Project.

An ecologist by training, Daily’s research spans a wide range of topics including biodiversity conservation, agriculture, and livelihoods; the production and value of ecosystem services for human health and well-being; and policy and finance mechanisms for integrating conservation and human development.

Courses and Programs taught by Gretchen Daily