Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs

A family of tools for quantifying the values of natural capital in clear, credible, and practical ways.
https://github.com/natcap/invest

Category: Sustainable Development
Sub Category: Sustainable Investment

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ecosystem-services geospatial gis

Keywords from Contributors

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InVEST®: models that map and value the goods and services from nature that sustain and fulfill human life.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/natcap/invest
• Owner: natcap
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2020-01-29T22:22:07.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-09-22T22:05:46.000Z (8 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-23T23:46:02.218Z (7 days ago)
• Topics: ecosystem-services, geospatial, gis
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 144 MB
• Stars: 208
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 89
• Open Issues: 171
• Releases: 30
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: HISTORY.rst
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt
  • Citation: CITATION.cff
  • Notice: NOTICE.txt

README.md

Citation (CITATION.cff)

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title: InVEST
message: >-
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type: software
authors:
  - name: Natural Capital Project
    website: 'https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu'
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.60793/natcap-invest-3.16.2
    description: Persistent identifier for this version of InVEST
repository-code: 'https://github.com/natcap/invest'
url: 'https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/software/invest'
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abstract: >-
  InVEST® is a suite of free, open-source software models
  used to map and value the goods and services from nature
  that sustain and fulfill human life.  If properly managed,
  ecosystems yield a flow of services that are vital to
  humanity, including the production of goods (e.g., food),
  life-support processes (e.g., water purification), and
  life-fulfilling conditions (e.g., beauty, opportunities
  for recreation), and the conservation of options (e.g.,
  genetic diversity for future use).  Despite its
  importance, this natural capital is poorly understood,
  scarcely monitored, and, in many cases, undergoing rapid
  degradation and depletion.


  Governments, non-profits, international lending
  institutions, and corporations all manage natural
  resources for multiple uses and inevitably must evaluate
  tradeoffs among them. The multi-service, modular design of
  InVEST provides an effective tool for balancing the
  environmental and economic goals of these diverse
  entities.


  InVEST enables decision makers to assess quantified
  tradeoffs associated with alternative management choices
  and to identify areas where investment in natural capital
  can enhance human development and conservation.  The
  toolset includes distinct ecosystem service models
  designed for terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and coastal
  ecosystems, as well as a number of “helper tools” to
  assist with locating and processing input data and with
  understanding and visualizing outputs.
keywords:
  - Ecosystem Services
  - Geospatial
  - Natural Capital
license: Apache-2.0
version: 3.16.2
date-released: 2025-08-13

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• Name: The Natural Capital Project
• Login: natcap
• Email:
• Kind: organization
• Description: Pioneering science, technology, and partnerships that enable people and nature to thrive.
• Website: naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu
• Location: United States
• Twitter: natcapproject
• Company:
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• Repositories: 59
• Last ynced at: 2024-01-28T19:30:43.006Z
• Profile URL: https://github.com/natcap

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• Total packages: 2
• Total downloads:
  • pypi: 2,144 last-month
• Total dependent packages: 2 (may contain duplicates)
• Total dependent repositories: 8 (may contain duplicates)
• Total versions: 46
• Total maintainers: 4

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