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The BASIN Field Manual is the central reference to all that is BASIN. It is our expression of the intertwined, entangled relational value of the natural systems we inhabit. Herein lies what we hope will be a compass, or at least a map, for the path ahead.
If BASIN had rules they would be:
Complex is not the same as complicated. Biodiversity, climate, carbon, water, nature, and beyond — economics, finance, politics, law, art, health, wealth, and well-being — are all interconnected.
Ecological economics and ecosystem accounting are based on the principles of stocks and flows. This aptly mirrors nature's basins that store and circulate life-sustaining water. BASIN's model is crafted on this very essence— protecting and stewarding the stocks and flows of Nature's Intrinsic Value.
Stacking splits a place into parts (food, fiber, water, carbon, biodiversity, etc); bundling values the whole. We favor bundling—one instrument, no overlap, holistic valuation. We issue on value, price on cost and let the market close the gap to fund natural asset ensurance.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
-John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911