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The Five Capitals Model of sustainable development was developed by the organization Forum for the Future. The model groups together: It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sustainability. ... Forum for the Future is a British sustainable development charity. ...

The model is used to show stocks and flows of resources as they relate to a sustainable society and economy. Natural capital is a metaphor for the mineral, plant, and animal formations of the Earths biosphere when viewed as a means of production of oxygen, water filter, erosion preventer, or provider of other natural services. ... Social capital is defined as the value that is created through the application of social networks during non-organizational time. ... Human capital is a way of defining and categorizing peoples skills and abilities as used in employment and as they otherwise contribute to the economy. ... Infrastructural capital refers to any physical means of production or means of protection beyond that which can be gathered or found directly in nature, i. ... Financial capital, or economic capital, is any liquid medium or mechanism that represents wealth, or other styles of capital. ...


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ADAH: Capitals of Alabama (670 words)
In accordance with the enabling act for statehood, the first Constitutional Convention assembled in the north Alabama town of Huntsville in 1819, where the first session of the General Assembly was held in the same year.
Tuscaloosa was a thriving community located on the shoals of the Black Warrior River and had been a strong candidate for the capital site when Cahaba had been chosen for the honor in 1819.
Serving as the home for the government beginning in 1826, however, it was increasingly inconvenient as a seat of government for the rapidly growing state.
Historical capitals of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (833 words)
Chengdu (WG: Ch'eng-tu) was the capital of the Shu Kingdom during the period of the Three Kingdoms.
Chongqing (CPMR: Chungking) was the provisional capital of the government of Chiang Kai-shek during World War II (Second Chinese-Japanese War), and was briefly the seat of Chiang's ROC government during the Chinese civil war with the Communist Party of China.
Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei in opposition to Chiang Kaishek during the 1920s.
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