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Natural Capital
Natural capital is a community's base of natural resources including air,
water, land, flora, and fauna. Natural resources provide ecosystem service
(e.g., flood control, waste assimilation) and are extracted as an input of
production (e.g., fossil fuel, timber, tourism) (Green & Haines, 2011). GIS
students surveyed the location and health (measured as diameter at breast
height [DBH]) of trees in a Chicago neighborhood using GPS receivers (Frye
et al., 2007).
Figure 2. Coal power plants and percent of Latino population by community areas in
Chicago (2009).
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