naturkapital

English translation: natural capital

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Norwegian term or phrase:naturkapital
English translation:natural capital
Entered by: Carole Hognestad

11:32 Sep 27, 2007
Norwegian to English translations [PRO]
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Norwegian term or phrase: naturkapital
Stat og kommune har omfattende formue i form av finanskapital og ikke-finansiell kapital. I nasjonalregnskapet er offentlig forvaltnings formue i form av realkapital 2005 beregnet til 790 milliarder kroner. Naturkapital og realkapital som ikke lar seg tallfeste er ikke medregnet.
Carole Hognestad
Local time: 11:03
natural capital
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Thomas Deschington
Poland
Local time: 11:03
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4 +1natural capital
Thomas Deschington
4natural resources capital
David Siebert


  

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natural resources capital


Explanation:
"Nature capital" exists (see the Wikipedia link) but I seems a bit clumsy to me.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_capital
David Siebert
Local time: 10:03
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Thomas Deschington: 752 000 hits in Google for n. c. seems a pretty good existence to me :-) But of course, the 1 000 000 lemmings were wrong after all.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
natural capital


Explanation:
:-)

Thomas Deschington
Poland
Local time: 11:03
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Thanks for your help.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jande: Have you read the book? I've even been to Hunter Lovins seminar twice. In any case this is a common term in Economics.
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  -> Thanks. Afraid I haven't. I see her book is "natural capitalism", though.
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