Building back better - A Marshall plan for Natural Capital: Reversing the decline in Sub-Saharan African GDP in Nature-based Tourism sector from COVID-19

Abstract

A green infrastructure strategy can provide necessary skills and wages to draw down our environmental deficit, through replanting mangroves and watersheds, removing invasive species, upgrading and rewilding our conservation areas, building fire breaks and restoring damaged areas by wildfire in natural forests, restoring shorelines, rebuilding tourism infrastructure to minimize environmental impacts and installing better waste waste management and energy systems.