InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) is a family of tools for quantifying the values of natural capital in clear, credible, and practical ways. In promising a return (of societal benefits) on investments in nature, the scientific community needs to deliver knowledge and tools to quantify and forecast this return. InVEST enables decision-makers to quantify the importance of natural capital, to assess the tradeoffs associated with alternative choices, and to integrate conservation and human development.
InVEST is licensed under a permissive, modified BSD license.
- For more information, see:
- InVEST API documentation
- InVEST on GitHub
- The Natural Capital Project website.
Runtime dependencies for natcap.invest are listed in requirements.txt.
If you have a compiler installed and configured for your system, and dependencies installed, the easiest way to install InVEST as a python package is:
$ pip install natcap.investThe latest development version of InVEST can be installed from our git source tree:
$ pip install "git+https://github.com/natcap/invest@main#egg=natcap.invest"Dependencies for InVEST are listed in requirements.txt (runtime
requirements), requirements-dev.txt (development requirements), and
requirements-docs.txt (for building documentation).
Participate in the NatCap forums here: http://community.naturalcapitalproject.org
Bugs may be reported at http://github.com/natcap/invest