CURRENT GUIDE · 2026
NATURE SYNTH is a professional tool for turning a nature-positive concept into a bankable real-world case. Experience the barriers in 18 cases, diagnose them with 13 frontier theories, and use 12 implementation models to design finance, contracts, measurement and review. Start with the entry closest to your current work.
Choose by purposeUse Games to understand a situation, Frontier Economics to verify the reasoning, or Workspace to structure your own region or business. These are not separate courses; they are three depths for examining the same case.
/economics-games/economics/workspaceA nature-positive concept alone is not enough for funders or implementers to decide. Who benefits and pays? How is performance verified? Who bears loss if it fails, and when is the contract reviewed? NATURE SYNTH exposes these unresolved questions and rebuilds the concept into a case that third parties can assess.
It means more than receiving a bank loan or showing high profit. A case must protect ecological and rights floors while explaining benefits, payers, evidence, contracts, risk allocation, capital recovery, measurement and review well enough to enter a formal investment, insurance, grant or public-spending decision.
Bankability is often blocked by asymmetric information, invisible effort, gaps between beneficiaries and payers, coalition exit and an uncertain future. The 13 theories are design tools: they diagnose the barrier and translate it into payment timing, guarantees, consent, allocation, observation and review rules.
Show whose losses fall and whose income or options grow, creating a reason to pay.
Define the no-action comparison, ecological and rights floors, and downside forecast first.
Combine advance and outcome payments, guarantees, insurance, consent and remedy so effort and disclosure continue.
Put capital providers, recovery timing, measurement duties and continue/revise/stop rules in one case record.
Read each roughly 100-character description and choose a game close to your case. The goal is not to guess a correct answer. Compare the outcome and character explanations to see how contracts, funding, rights and ecological conditions change the result.
Test contracts, insurance, watersheds, forests, pollination, blue carbon and more through short stories and controls. Choose by what the card says you will compare and calculate, not by the model name alone.
Examine one regional issue through stakeholders, funding, shocks and contracts. Read the character introduction and synopsis before the four questions to understand whose interests and assets the case must protect.
Use the card description to check the situation, control and learning goal. A badge marks prior progress.
Open the character introduction and synopsis to identify the problem and what each person wants to protect.
Change an option or value, inspect the outcome, and read the feedback before continuing.
Dr Mori covers theory, Ren finance and contracts, Nagi limits and possibilities, and Aoi connects them to the field.
Completion links lead to the matching theory, Workspace model, insurance lab or watershed application.
This page connects game and case decisions to economic language and evidence. Read the plain explanation, leading scholars, formula or chart, four character viewpoints, and finally an operable game to understand where the theory helps practice.
Start with the real-world problem expressed as a plain-language question.
Read the plain lesson, then check leading scholars, symbol definitions, formula and chart.
Re-read the same theory through theory, practice, fieldwork and its limits.
Change the stated control in the linked screen and compare your result with the prediction.
Workspace breaks a nature-positive plan into eight professional questions. Select a similar model and replace its sample wording and numbers with your region step by step. Unknown figures can be marked as estimates and retained as research needs.
Region, decision maker, deadline, no-action option and intervention to test. You can start before every figure is available.
A single case record covering the option and reason, minimum conditions, funding, roles, payment and contract, measurement and review.
State who decides, where, by when, and what is compared with doing nothing.
Set the budget, deadline, ecological floor and rights that cannot be worsened.
Record figures, sources and uncertainty, clearly marking estimates.
Update the calculation and identify issues in safety, money, time or cooperation.
Compare inaction and interventions, including outcomes when forecasts are wrong.
Map implementers, payers, beneficiaries, burdens, consent and remedy.
Set when and whom to pay, what is verified, and what happens if gains reverse.
Record what to measure next and when to continue, revise or stop.
The primary purpose is professional case design and validation. The same process can also support professional training or a university class. In that setting, do not search for a fictional correct answer; require participants to explain assumptions, minimum conditions, contracts and missing evidence as they would in practice.
Select a real case or a game close to the work and assign different roles.
Record the choice, outcome, priority and whose burden was considered.
Read one linked theory and use it to explain the result.
Change one Workspace assumption, recalculate, and compare.
List the data, stakeholders and contract terms to verify in the real case.
OUTPUTExample comparison: chosen option and reason / minimum condition / changed assumption / why the result changed / evidence still required in practice
Blocked is not failure. It is a professional result identifying whether rights, ecological floors, evidence or contract conditions must be repaired. Use the reason as the next work item instead of only navigating back.