Exploring the origins of the Ecosystem Approach and Natural Capital Accounting and considering the core elements we recommend a simple schema to both demonstrate the similarities in the core data and approach and help facilitate collaborative and integrated analyses by natural scientists, social scientists and economists. Using the unifying framework of Drivers, Activities, Pressures, State, Impact, Welfare, Response and Measures we propose that the requisite steps and underlying data to assess environmental status or natural capital status are broadly the same and that efficiency, transparency and utility of assessments will be improved if these concepts converge.

在探索生态系统方法和自然资本会计的起源并考虑核心要素时，我们建议使用简单的方案来说明核心数据和方法的相似性，并帮助促进自然科学家，社会科学家和经济学家的协作和综合分析。使用驱动因素，活动，压力，状态，影响，福利，响应和措施的统一框架，我们建议评估环境状况或自然资本状况的必要步骤和基础数据大致相同，并且评估的效率，透明度和效用如果这些概念融合在一起，将会得到改善。