Glossary

The stock of natural ecosystems that yields a flow of valuable ecosystem goods or services into the future.

An event that results from a nature-related process and which overwhelms the capacity of a household, community, city, business or a utility to resist or recover from the impacts without external assistance

Identification of key processes and sub-processes at different levels.

Any measure not involving physical construction that use knowledge, practice or agreement to reduce risks and impacts, in particular through policies and laws, public awareness raising, training and education.

A small change in one part of the process may have substantial effects in the other part.

Chemicals that provide food and material required by bacteria and other biological entities.